Excuse my ignorance here, but did the/FD indicate these cars were made to run in fuel dragster cl***es? I knew about A, B, and blown fuel dragster cl***es, but can not recall seeing a C or blown CC cl***. Tom S.
NHRA put the early cars on fuel in the dragster cl*** because they had no cl*** for them.No official Funny Car cl*** in NHRA existed then. Think Gene Snow won Comp at Indy.
i seem to remember this car , but barely . can anyone tell me about it ? what engine did it use , and was it very successful ? where was it from ? any more photos ? jack edit - could this be the old "psycho" mustang ?
TAP TAP TAP ......is this thing on ? is anyone out there , or is this the end of the line for the AWB thread ? i'd really like to know something about the "orion" mustang pictured above . i seem to remember the car , but it may have been another car called "orion" . any help ? joel ? are you out there ? jack
Looks like a car that was just built similar to the Psycho to me. A lot of guys put late model bodies on their Altereds so they could run match races as Funny Cars.
hey bucksnort - as you're the guy who originally posted the pic of "orion" - do you know anything about it ? jack
the "psycho" mustang originally used a fiat body , and held it's cl*** record . it was powered by a 427 ford wedge , and it always looked to me like they just dropped the mustang body on the original ch***is . one of the mags featured the car back in the '60's . if anyone is interested , i can post the photos . jack P.S. - but i'd still like to know about the "orion" . love that purple !!
Jack, I don't know anything about the Orion Mustang ... I've seen pictures of it but I was never interested in re-bodied altered/funny cars ... so I never really paid attention. I imagine that it was a local car ... CA maybe? Sorry. Joel
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