I am looking for a Street Legal Dragster, the Car was featured in Hot Rod and Car Craft back in the late 60s and early 70s. If you search Street Legal FEDs here on the HAMB you will find it. Anyone know what happened to it? Its in this Thread on the cover of Car Craft http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=570286
There were several, but for cover cars, there was a red T bucket body running a ford Cammer motor and a full canopy black one with a supercharged big block chevy.
Making good progress after a summer slow down (too hot) I got my front wheels back from the shop rebuilding the rims, the ugly wide gold anodized rims have been replaced with 17 x 2.5" chrome rims like it was originally. The 500+ cube big block has been rebuilt and very close to test fire and break in. The front suspension has been rechromed. all new rod ends have been added during the front end rebuild. Body work continues and getting real close to prime and hopefully paint by next month. My goal is to have the car running and painted before the end of November, because I need to get all my cars loaded up before the winter hits in Illinois where I am relocating.
The full canopy black one with the big block Chev was Mike Minnett's (SP?) out of the Dallas area. He drove it to the Tulsa Street Rod Nationals in 1973 and towed a junky little trailer behind it with his slicks and jack in it I've got a bunch of photos somewhere. From what I heard in the next year is he quit taking it to shows(pre48) because guys gave him too much **** about it not being a pre 48 car. He also had a nifty little T bucket with quarter epileptic springs front and rear that handled the streetkanas like a bandit. I need to find those albums and photos anyhow so i'll dig in the file cabinet and boxes today.
Ever since word got out I am restoring Minette's 'Digger' as he called it, I have been receiving vintage photos from the Tulsa show you referred to from people, really cool old shots. I would love to see some more, thanks! The little T was really trick, it had inboard front disc brakes too, really trick stuff. Last night on Forest Lane I saw the new owner of Minette's street legal Outlaw car. Mike continues to be an incredible innovator today.
This may be the car I posted about once before. I remember a street FED on the cover of HRM or Car Craft, the issue had a multi-car "Street Freaks" layout mostly shot at some early street machine nats kind of event. The car I'm remembering had a 2-seater body (black, blown BBC, maybe)with a funky sorta disco van styled interior with swivel buckets, single door on the back. It wasn't the stretched '34 body car posted above. Not the Steve Group - built street altered either.
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