Pretty cool old drag car

Saw this at the show tonight. Pretty cool it was "restored" but he left the stickers on the windows.



I didnt get to meet him I would have like to have learned more about it.




And here is a gratuitous shot of my Dad with my car.

 

That tilt front end looks funny. In a Jay Leno kinda way.

 

Win sticks look new....front looks like the one morrison did with car craft

 

are you sure? that looks like a fibergl*** body, or some really ****ty body work under those "stickers".

 

it looks like a fraud to me

I like your Dad's car better

 

Hey that little girl is stealing your purple backpack!!!!!!!

 

I agree, it doesn't look like anything they would have run in the mid 60's. Me thinks somebody got a bunch of old stickers and put them on something later to give it a nostalgic sticker theme.

 

It was restored with a backhalf ch***is and huge cowlinduction hood? Boy those window stickers sure held up well over all those decades. Uh huh, yeah.

 

Ha! Whats up '71? Austins rock!

 

Yep, no way in hell that car ran anything close to that configuration in 64-66. 80's is more like it. No offense meant to the OP.

 

Thanks for the heads up I'll have to go track her down.


Sorry about the fraud, I thought it was an older car by looking at his picture book. I'm not familiar with older drag cars.

 

Lots of changes since Sixties "cl***" racing, but one of the major developments was tires. As I recall, until about the time of "Bracket racing", the widest tire was a mere 10". (This applied to top fuelers as well. ) 8" slicks on 6" wheels were common. The regulation of modifications in the resultant quest for traction was a major factor in the cl***ification system.

For instance:
Modified production had no engine set-back and stock-type suspension.
G***ers were allowed 10% engine set-back and straight axles, but stock wheel base.
Altered cl***es were 25% engine set-back, with wheel base/body-placement variations and solid mounted rear ends allowed. At this level, street equipment (lights, hoods, fenders, etc.) were no longer required.
Competion cl***es were basically dragsters with bodies.

With factory funding in the hotly contested Super Stock cl***es, things started getting a little dicey, as Mopar began subtly shifting wheelbases to gain a traction advantage. Factory involvement was too important for sanctioning bodies to ignore, and they turned a blind eye until things became ever more blatant, creating the new "Factory Experimental" catagory (the original "Funny Cars"). Things escalated quickly (Supercahrgers, Fuel, flopper bodies, etc.), Drag racing became big business, and the tire manufacturers kept pace. Drag racing has never been the same.

In summation, sixties racing= 6"-10" wheels.

I'm no historian, so please pardon any discrepancies.
And sorry for the long post.