The Ramchargers Candymatic flopper is coming back to life.

Jim Matuszak and Al Bergler have been busy getting all of the original parts and pieces together to bring back an iconic flopper from the early 70s back to life. The Candymatic flopper driven be Clare Sanders set several records back in the day. I think its great to see another legend come back to life. It will be at Aurorama with several other floppers and front engine dragsters if you want to see it.

 

Nice..They have had some great drag cars upstairs the last few years. I cant wait to see it

 

Great to see thanks for shareing the pics, Tim Jones

 

Thank's for the post. I remember it well.

 

thank you..........

 

That's great news.

 

Looks great! I guess they worked things out with the judge.... I heard he made it tough on those with Ramcharger cars.

 

Very cool Rich.......thanks for sharing the news brother.

 

I guess some vulture recopyrighted their name?

 

It's gonna be great to see a Ramchargers car blowin' down a track again!

I can't wait to see it!

Thanks for the efforts to resurrect another classic legend of Drag Racing.

 

I watched their AFX car run in the 60's.. Where did that time go????

 

You can say that again. Its too bad that lawyers have to get involved in restoring an iconic race car but unfortunately they did. Hopefully its all over but you never know.

 

BEAUTIFUL...that's cool

 

The flopper will just do the cackle fests but Jim has this car that a mutual friend will drive at race weekends that have races along with the cackle fest.

 

RAMCHARGERS - great to see my old ride getting such a grand facelift, and by the one who did it originally even...!!!

 

Welcome to the HAMB Mr Sanders

Roo

 

Welcome Clare!

It's a thrill to see your old ride getting restored.

Can't wait till it catches fire! Won't be long now!

 

o yeah , i cant wait to see this done , just freakin awesome ..

 

welcome clare. i met you at the super stock reunion in north carolina. we had a nice talk. i was impressed how humble you were.

 

There's no one better at restoring these cars than Al Bergler!

 

Very cool

 

please tell it will be running at the detroit dragway reunion!

 

An honor to have you here among us, welcome to the HAMB!

 

Wait till you see this car in person, it's great.The guys are leaving no stone unturned looking for the orignal or period correct parts for this restoration.The "project Manger" is a pain in the ass(he is a personal friend of HEMIFARRIS) .They have a picture of the "MowtownShaker" and this car at Martin 131 doing side by side burnouts.Gonna be a fun year!!

 

Just finished "We were the Ramchargers" great read brings back a lot of memories. Lots of insight into the Rams.

 

One of Jungle Clare's early rides "LimeFire."

 

I'm happy that Clare has joined us and hopefully will add to the history of ths project. I took some pictures of the painted body less lettering that are in my Candymatic album on my home page. The body then was sent out the same guy who lettered it originally. It doesn't get any more original than that.

 

Here is the picture.

 

That car is sweet, but without getting all pissy, can someone tell me why this isnt severely OT?

 

Another cool shot. Clare said "Phil Goulet wouldn't let me do "Chi-Town" burnouts very often, but... our 1st race "back" at Detroit Dragway (hadn't raced there for years), he told me to "show 'em what a REAL Funny Car looks like". BIG burnout, low ET and Top Speed, won the race. Phil actually smiled!"