By this time next year there will be two Winged Express cars. That video is of the "old" new car which crashed at Bakersfield. The one that Mike is currently driving is the third in that configuration. We built it using the wreck as a template. We still have the wrecked one from the video at my shop and this winter we are going to retro it back to the original configuration with the single hoop braced roll bar. Mousie has almost all of the parts collected to put the iron motor back together and once it is done it will be used as a cacklefest car. The photos are of my contribution to the "keep the look alive" movement. It is only a blown alcohol car but I wanted to make it look like a period piece. Roo
GREAT thread!!! Bumpin' it with a few cars I didn't see posted yet.... Somewhere I have some overall pics of the twin engine "Black Jack"..... Before I DIE, I want to drive a front engine digger, even if I gotta BUILD one myself..... Say fellas, what was the main difference between the fuelers and Jr. fuelers? Was it just the engine??
I've stood between launching Nitro Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters. Amazing machines, but they are simply ugly. Functioning marvels, but the vinyl and copy-cat lines blow my mind. Thanks for reminding me what real drag racing is about!
Sorry to hijack this, but to my shame I haven't figured out how to post pics on PMs and the e-mail I have doesn't work. This is for Independant Customs... 1 - Anti-rotation plate is made out of 1/8 chromemoly. Bolts to the differential nose. 2 - Plate bolts (all aircraft hardware) to tube crossmember mounted bracket with 3 bolts. 3 - The crossmember bracket itself is welded on both sides and is broken forward on each end at about 30 degrees. It's chromemoly as well as everything else. The cross member is 1/8 thick wall tubing (1 1/8") and is triangulated with smaller diameter (3/4") thick wall tubing. - Hope that helps!
Thanks a lot Tim, I definitely appreciate it. I can see now that I have gone totally over board in the design of the one I'm making. I'm gonna go back to the drawing board and make something a little less overkill than the one I made! Thanks again man
In case this hasn't been posted before: http://www.cacklefest.com/cacklecars.shtml Great stories-just click on each photo for the car's history and subsequent restoration. Should be required reading for all.
Pete Ogden built the chassis for that dual flathead car I believe. Nice car! No sweat Independant, can it really be overkill? I mean, it's our BALLS we're lookin' out for here!
yes pete did the chasis...he was also one of the original road knights...my friends grandfather and him went to high school together...
Does anyone have a scan of the cover of Hot Rod where Kalitta's SOHC motor was on a Ford dyno and the headers were glowing red hot? I stared at that cover for many a long hour as a kid...
HERES ONE I TOOK AT THE DRAGS...some freakin MO guy owns it! not top fuel...but a neat pic from the pileup this year..
So did I. Sorry, but my ex-wife burned my copy thirty years ago, along with all my other HRM, CC, R&C from the late 50s on. I read a couple of years ago that the flames trailing up and over the tires (I think it was supposed to be in a wind tunnel) were added to the photo later, and the whole deal was staged, but either way, it hooked me at the time.
Man back in the day they had some great looking cars. The car I like the most might be the S&H red stamp special
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