Hot Rods Any Altered Wheelbase Mopar Fans?

There are some beautiful pics in this thread...

 

Here's one my Uncle shot of the Landy Dodge. Sorry it isn't a better picture. I have good shots of some other makes of A/FX cars and dragsters he took at Irwindale in 65. We found them when cleaning out his garage, after he passed away.

 

So all the pix in the Ramchargers thread weren't enough for ya, huh?

Cool stuff.

Jay

 

If Magnante was on here, I'd never leave... I have the video, it's how I kill time at work... I've been eyeballing the wifes Saturn...

Jay

 

Heres a 65 plymouth AFX I owned back in around 1973. I scanned this picture from an old scrapbook of mine. Thats my little brother in the picture he is 40 years old now. I think I paid around $500 for it without motor or trans. I had a 70 super bee with a 426 and was thinking about putting the 426 in this car. It never happened. I ended up trading the AFX for a 40 tudor that needed resto. In looking back one of my worst trades ever.

My favorite thing to show my pals was how I could stand in the engine compartment of the 65 and lift the K member to my waist. The car was in excellent condition and must still be around somewhere. Sellers remorse gets especially bad when I read threads such as this one. Steve

 

Probably my all time favorite cars since I was a kid, I had pictures of them galore in the early 70's on my bedroom wall.

 

Good to see you here, any more pics?!?!

 

The "Jayhawker" is actually a 63 model...been around for a long time...I had a hand in building it way back when. Currently just finished a 65 Dodge AWB car for Clay Kossuth in Missouri and have another 65 Dodge AWB car in progress for another customer in Missouri..........

M.

 

Man it is good to see this car restored! I saw it when Mr. Guffey had it and it was rough!!! I'm looking forward to seeing it at the Hemi Reunion coming up.

 

hey Troublemaker. How you doin? i've got a 65 Chevelle 2 door sedan and a 65 Tempest altered wheeelbase. Think Mr. Unswitchable. Or Just For Chevy Lovers... I sold the Fairlane

 

Got any photos of them Mr. Rich ?

 

The "Jayhawker" also ran in this configuration
SSDI May65

 

Now that this thread is over a year old and I've figured out how to post photos,here's some of my pile.

 

Im going to come right out and say it..I dont know much on the history of the altered wheel base Mopars...but does anyone know if there ever was a B body like the 68 Dodge Charger that was made into an altered WB car?..if so..show me im dieing to see it.

 

Dick Landy's 68 wasn't altered ...was it?

Nope, just looked..
any one ever run an altered WB 68 charger?

 

all the famous will be gathered at the all hemi reunion, even Landy's dodge. August 23 .

 

I agree, we need some pics!!!!!!!!!

 

The white Plymouth is the car that was in Mopar Muscle magazine with Greg Fernault's car. Sorry if I spelled that wrong Greg.

 

Steve Magnante emailed me this photo of his Rampage a few weeks ago.

 

Drag Racing innovations were moving so fast in that time period. The altered wheelbase phase of the sport was in fact pretty short, at least where the factory backed teams are concerned. To answer your question No Ive never seen any cars as late as 68 with the wheelbase altered, as by that time they had already moved on to the next phase of Funny Cars.

 

like some people I sell stuff here and on ebay.
Here is a link to a magazine I have for sale there it has the Ramcharger's funny dart.

I thought some of you guys might be interested.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190239616222&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=009

 

Here's the sister car to Steve's Rampage Dart:
http://public.fotki.com/teddisnoke/bmw-2002/002.html

We built Steve's car, then followed up with this one with the intention of match racing the cars, taking the show on the road so to speak some other cars as well. Thats how "The FunnyCar Farm" got started.

Here's some more of both Dart's builds:
http://public.fotki.com/bowtie0069/shop-projects-1/shop-projects/page3.html
For people who have "created" these cars from scratch, like Mr. Rich,Steve, myself, and alot of you guys, you know its alot of cuttin,weldin, and grindin! But the final result can be summed up in one word: ******IN!!!

Dale (the funnycarfarmer)

 

Doin' OK Mr.Rich. Its cool seeing you branching out from the Mopars. I can't wait to see the finished products!! I flew out to LA and spent a couple days working on a project with Magnante.(check out the new Muscle Car Review, Lightweight Galaxie article) I heard a few stories about you guys terrorizing LA in your AWB cars !!! Keep up the good work....

 

Hey Troublemaker. Yeah I jumped ship by building Chevys. I'll put up photos this week. Did anyone get photos of the Mopar drags at Pacific raceways this weekend? Cecil Yother was driving my Black A/FX Bel 1. I let him drive it, I went to see the Melvins.

 

Mr.Rich a couple of your old builds are running with us here on the eastcoast in NSS. The red "Performance King" car and the white Householder car. Both cars look great and run strong.

I'd like to see a photo of Cecil running your car. Good to see him back in an AWB car!!

 

Yeah that black car was a handfull at first. I took the front end completely apart and figured out what was puttin me into the wall.Then it drove straight as an arrow. Cecil pulled some serious wheelies. He's 70 and he just doesn't give a*****. That was a fun day.