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Originally Posted by Hammered
From what (little) I've read, the original Wide Track cars, starting in 1959, had significantly wider track widths to improve handling. However, I am beginning to believe that in later years, it was a marketing slogan ostensibly backed by fudged numbers.
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Not to improve handling, but to push the wheels out to match the larger body style (for aesthetics).
Bunkie Knudsen's comment was that, without doing that, the cars "looked like football players wearing ballet slippers".
https://disaffected-musings.com/2021...track-pontiac/
https://club.shannons.com.au/club/fo...track-pontiac/
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