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Let’s see, advance the timing 30 degrees, turn on the magneto, 1/4 turn on the air/ fuel, 1/2 turn on the idle, then decide if I should under drive the blower or overdrive it.

 

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Hello,

The Tom McEwen-Gene Adams “Shark Car” was an innovative FED. It was the first one to incorporate an area of the streamlined body to enclose a parachute. The tall pointed tip creating a “shark-like” look circling its prey out in the ocean.

By the time it usually won its class or set a record, the opponent only saw the tip of the tall fin going down the dragstrip. It won its class, won many races and had a non Hemi motor during competition. The big Oldsmobile motor was from the Gene Adams camp and has a history of powerful 394 Oldsmobile motor builds from the Gas Coupe Class into the Altered Coupe classes into the FED races.

Adams- McEwen Shark car with mods…

Jnaki

Yes, my version had a few mods that were starting to show up in other race cars at the time and some from the earlier years. Besides the new innovation of the parachute being hidden within the body, my version includes a streamlined nose and side panels for smoother flow going down the track. For 8 seconds, streamlining may not play the more important part like having a two mile run on the dry lakes. But, at the time, every bit helped win races. So, this version had a long, low body for any help blowing by the opposing forces…

Also, people had always wondered why the big motor had the shortest headers known to mankind.

So, included were some styling keys from the earlier 1959-60 era of longer, equal length header pipes down low and swept back, not up.

Finally, if the outstanding blue colored FED was being pushed by a matching Oldsmobile station wagon, knowing the McEwen camp would have come up with a matching blue color in the two toned Oldsmobile station wagon. Even though it may have been a 4 door factory station wagon, the custom hot rod version would have made it a two door “Nomad style” push/tow car for the “Shark Car…” YRMV


Note: The Oldsmobile version was the one winning most of the races, not the Pontiac motor version. Although they looked like twin cars at one time…

 

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Nice Dodge.