Features Altered Wheelbase Picture Thread

Len Silvers out of Dayton Ohio. Not so much of an AWB as an early funny car as the body was the first fiberglass Dart shell from Bob Mangold's B & N Fiberglass, mounted on a tube chassis. The engine was the hemi out of Silvers' 1965 Super Stock car with Hilborn injection and the trans was a Torqueflite. Silvers also owned the formerly Maynard Rupp driven (again B & N bodied) Chevoom for a while but after battling the ill handling beast to runs in the high 7's at around 180 mph he parked it after getting sideways in the traps.

Roo

 

Note the name on the quarter panel, the HAMB's own Genes (Cromer) Speed Shop.

 

Good eye totally missed that.

 

Never seen this one! Cool!

 

Doug's Headers Chevy 2 Much

 

Dyno Don rosin burnout



The Cyclops



Strictnine

 

Ha Loudbang that looks familiar !

The Cyclops

 

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That's great that it found a good home.

 

Godzilla

 

Later The Honker

 

From Bangkok Dean

Ronnie Sox

 

Beautiful day at Irwindale. You can see the mountains. I was probably in the pits somewhere.

 

Earthquake

 

I saw this '55 AWB for sale at Sears Point (Infinion ) in the early 90's.

 

Thanks for saving / posting the article about my cousin's machine.

 

No sorry that site just has photos with no captions but it is probably in the new england NHRA div 1 area as a bunch of shots there are on the site not much west coast stuff.

 

Bob Morson's Soul shaker

 

Most of the AWB cars to me look a bit strange. But by far the 50s cars do not wear the look well at all.

 

I have been around awb cars so much when i see a stocker it looks funny to me.

 

A wheelstander.
After the MoPars had such great success with AWB Coronets (and the like) FoMoCo jumped on the AWB wagon and they had problems keeping them on all fours.
The crowds loved'em soooo the promoters started featuring "Wheelstanders-Wheelstanders-Wheelstanders"!!

 

matt Delio, Is this it?

 

Blown Hell

 

Looks like they are leaving some parts behind. "Clean up on aisle two".

 

LOL both ends too.