I didn’t build one back then, to young and poor. I did get to know Gene Adams quite well , but never asked about the shark what led him in that direction. But I doubt if he would hang that much weight on just for looks. For what it’s worth the dc9 md80 type aircrafts started with a pointer tail cone behind the engines sticking out on the sides , but latter models like you can see currently have the cone flattened for fuel conservation. Less drag more gas to go further. Now back to someone who can post pictures. I prefer pictures.
Jim Dunn's funny car chassis with a body built (in two weeks) by Doug Kruse. The two bodies were readily interchangeable and at the 1973 Grand American event at OCIR Dunn raced in both T/F and F/C on the same day. He won the first round of T/F over Don Johnson and also went a couple of rounds in F/C making the body and header change in about 30 minutes each time. Roo
Posted by Ramblin Dan here:https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...of-what-you-like.132391/page-81#post-12635687
Mooneyhan, Ferguson, Jackson and Faust, aka the "Jungle 4. This body was originally designed by Robert "Jocko" Johnson and built for Frank Cannon but he abandoned it at Bakersfield after one slow pass. Jocko convinced the Jungle 4 team to try the body on their similar Woody chassis but it proved to be too prone to the affects of cross winds and after a couple of runs that saw the car hit the finish line lights at Lions and go completely off the track at the Pond it was abandoned again. Roo
Great pictures & commentary, guys. Here's Yellow Fang's engine. I took these a few years ago at Don Garlits' museum:
As detailed elsewhere in this thread this is the Jocko body that Frank Cannon/Pete Ogden ran for a single pass at Famoso on the Woody house car. Here it is on the Jungle Four (Mooneham, Jackson, Ferguson, Faust) car at Lions where is also had a short life. Roo
GREAT find!!! I'm a die hard Ford fan from way back and never heard of this one. Probably too heavy to compete well.
Banger, I had forgotten myself! Going thru the library and Found it right on the cover. I will add the rest of the article today, Carp.
On the other end of the spectrum, a slightly different perspective on how to hide the rough edges and gain from it. Old6rodder's "Flying Brick II".
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