History the Funny Car

Thanks to the H.A.M.B I've been in contact with Raefel Shields the builder and driver of the Funny Car altered wheelbase Plymouth.Today his wife Nancy emailed me some photos of the car.I'll let the captions she added to the photos speak for them selves.I hope you all injoy them as much as I did.

 

Fantastic Photos!!!!!
Brandon

 

I bet it hooked up pretty good. Where they had the back wheels sure looked like bite city to me.

 

They are a gold mine of info.

 

Awesome thanks for sharing.

 

Wow. I guess you're doing the resto? Good luck on it.

 

It's more of a recreation using original parts from the Funny Car.

 

excellent pics man! thanks..

 

I blame you Skipper for making me want to get this car right!The Texaria Willys resto you guys did is first class.

 

Funnycar65,You need to attend the Old time drag racer reunion held in Dallas every Dec..You will see the like of Mart Higginbotham,Frank Cook,Richard Tharp,Raymond Beadle..Dale Emory..and probably some I cant think of right now....

 

Keep me in mind when it comes around again,that sounds like something I need to get to.

 

Thanks for posting those cool photos and info on the people. Bob Leman/ Pink Panther Vette? Also a very nice Vette.

 

Raefel did the front end and some of the mechanicals on the Pink Panther Vette.

 

Cool pictures! The one with him squaring off with Tommy McNeely is priceless for me. I've started the ball rolling on a rough impersonation of this car, to round out my West Coast Funnycar Farm circus. Thanks much for posting them!

Dale

 

Can you imagine cutting up a very new and VERY expensive new car like that? That car is boss.

 

Check out this picture I found, its the Vette before it was turned gasser.
Its one of my favorite vettes.

 

Raefel has other shots of the Vette as well as some of the other cars he raced and did work on.His wife Nancy will email them to me as she has time.

 

Had these 3 forwarded to by David Frieburger.I now own these photos the photographer sent me the originals

 

I found this 1 web surfing.It's the first photo I have ever seen of the car still with the 64 light weight front.I have 8mm. color footage of the car in 64 super stock trim,never a picture though.

 

nice shots

little river photos

 

Temple Academy

 

great pictures which version of The Funny Car are you building it as and are you going to eliminate the door posts and 1/4 window posts like in the one picture if so let me now i will buy them.

 

that car looks...funny.

 

I'm pretty sure Temple/Academy and Little River are different names for the same track. Neat place from what I've seen.
Larry T

 

Same track.

It's where the Kontinentals host their Day of the Drags event each year.

Here is some reading material about the track.

http://hechointexas.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-river-dragstrip.html

http://www.dayofthedrags.com/about.html


FunnyCar, those pictures are GREAT!!

 

I'm going the early version.

 

Thanks for the info guys.

 

Killer pics. Dig the corvette.

 

Cool car.....Cool history