Altered Wheelbase Mopars Forever

I almost cry when I see old pixs of these race cars. I lived for every Sat and Sun during 1963 to 1968 when I raced every weekend.
I was there, my dear friends, right in the middle of the Funny Car Match Racing....Hilborns on Nitromethanse, powdered rosin, wow. what a life.....

 

Heres 2 i'll find more
jimV

 

Here's a couple

 

I can only wish I was there in those days but being 28 I dont think it was possable. I saw my very first AWB at the 1996 Mopar nats I was 16 it was Brian Kohlmanns 65 coronet one of his crew locked there key's in there truck and we were helping them get them out. He opens the door of his trailer and there it was in all is glory i was frozen for what could have been 2 min or 2 days LOL that was it I had to have one so now Im building mine.

 

Here's some pic's from my collection

 

I have a bunch

 

This is my Buddie Brian's 65

 

While the Mopar AWB cars are BAD ASS my favorites are the early Chevy II/Nova's.

 

Looks like a good start on the Valiant you gonna move the rear forward?

 

My buddy Pete owns Landy's 64 Dodge.I'm working on this one.

 

I plan on moving the back wheels next winter I just want to get driving, I'm also planning a BB. Looks like you have a ton of work ahead of you but I cant wait to find a car with some history to restore. Please keep me posted on the progress.

 

Here's a few from mt work computer.

 

Here are a few other odd ones to add..

 

I gotta a '66 Dodge Dart, originally a slant 6 car (no motor presentlly in vehicle) that'd make a killer altered wheelbase car.


Email me for pics...Its for sale, CHEAP!


suckaduckpunk@yahoo.com

and keep them mopars' a comin!

mike d

 

Excellent pics of a great era in dragracing, guys! Thank you,

Joel

 

Great pictures, Mike! Here is mine:


Mike- your Goldfinger car had us on a wild goose chase awhile back at my shop. A real A-990 came to me to bring back to stock sheetmetal configuration a few month's back. We had early pictures of it at the race track, but the car itself did not really match up, as it had seen quite a life on the dragstrip, with rear quarters replaced as well as two layers of floorpans in some areas. A real mess from the doors back. Someone sent me pictures of your car, and I thought, no way, this used to be an altered??? WEll, even after unraveling all the old tub work, rusty steel and the like, it turns out there was another campaigned Goldfinger car out in the midwest. A Hemi- lightweight painted white, with gold lettering and black detail writing. I"ll see if I can scan the pictures to show you. But here is the car. It being bodyworked and painted now, back to its original lettering as well. Thanks for coming onboard to the site, and sharing with all of us. This is how we keep the love of AWB's going!!
Dale
http://bowtie0069.fotki.com/shop-projects-1/a990-mopar/

Its thirteen pages of pictures, and took two donor cars to re-assemble.

 

A couple months back there was a vary cool thread like this. I cant for the life of me remember who, but some one on here was telling some excelant stories from his days match racing an a\fx mopar. It was some of the best reading I have done here.
Found it! Here is a link to that thread. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=244107

 

my uncle found a factory altered wheel base hemi car in a cave in kansas about 30 years ago
brought it home and put it in the garage. when he went through his devorce he needed to get rid of it so my dad went down there and picked it up. ended up selling it to the guy who owns strip rite here in union grove wis. just down the street from great lakes
i think my dad sold it for 10 grand for my uncle....... but this was 20 years ago
it was the alumium front clip and stuff but it had factory interior
cool car
last we heard it sold for six figures and was completely restored
tk

 

Wow, cool story. Any old Pic's lying around?

 

Hey Funny, Can you give us a little history of the car? Where has it been all these years and how you got it.
Saw those cars when they first came out and love them to this day.Thanks for posting.

 

Roger Lindamood told me those first altered wheelbase cars were really scary to drive. He said that the side windows would tip into the interior. Be interesting to hear from any of those drivers about their experiences behind the wheel of those things.

 

He said that the side windows would tip into the interior.

That's why all the factory AWB cars used sedan doors, so the windows wouldn't do that. eleven of the 12 original cars were hardtoops which had no window frame on the door. But they all had sedan window frames which held the window in place.

 

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One of my earliest childhood memories is of seeing a match race between the Ramcharger AWB '65 Dodge and Arnie Beswicks AWB Tempest (I would have only been 4 years old at the time!).... That big bad candy striped Coronet left an indelible impression on my brain and I've been hooked ever since!!!!! ​

Here are a couple of pics of Lee Smith's restored '65 Plymouth....​

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I found out about all the fiberglass through a friend,Jim Kramer had it.The rest of the car is long gone.I'm still trying to piece together the history on the Funny Car.I know it ran well into the 67 season still trying to compete with the glass bodied floppers.Here's a photo history of the car,it started out a 64 Hemi light weight,and got changed to a 65 early in 65,then got an altered wheelbase conversion after that.The name also changed from Long Gone to the Funny Car.

 

I never noticed the narrow Keystones you got on the front,don't let anyone talk you out of those kinda hard to find.

 

Mazooma get photos of a great car!Goldfinger was a popular name back then.

 

Ted,is this the one your working on?