History Distortion

"When there’s distortion, something isn’t quite right."
Not all time. In rock'n'roll distortion is allways right.
Must take some strong nerves to fly this thing down the quartermile.

 

I'll take exception to a couple of your assumptions. The wheel tire combo, the custom fit roll cage and the finished body work on this altered wheelbase El Camino tells me it was a pretty high tech and professional effort for the 1960"s. I'll bet it passed tech at any NHRA event.

 

Looks like fun I would drive it.

 

Meano Camino. Sometimes over the top is just right.

 

Distortion is in the eye of the beholder.

 

I was building one similar to this in 1/25th scale after growing tired of the first, more sedate version. Don't think it ever made to the finished state! Any other pics of this? I have seen this one before. Have a great weekend and Remember D Day!

 

Joey -

Correction ... the "COLT .45" Mustang:

photographer unknown​

... shared the chassis, engine, & drive train from their Fiat Topolino Altered:

photo by Pete Biro (HRM - June 1965 - pg35)​

The Davis & Ingram Jewel "T" (chronicled in my Davis ~ Ingram Jewel "T" AA / Altered ... Lotsa Pics!!! thread) was a completely different car! ... Sometime in 1965, Wes Ingram left the team to build an A/Altered racecar (which would later become the Jewel "T") ... Joe Davis continued to campaign the BB/A Fiat Topolino ... but also used its chassis for his BB/A Mustang ... and by year's end, Joe won the new "Exhibition Eliminator" class with the Mustang (later dubbed "COLT .45").

NOTE: @Sparky13 found the "Joe Davis - Ansen Engineering" BB/A Fiat Topolino body (see his Help me ID this ex Fiat drag car body I found thread).

 

Ugly as a man's butt.

 

Much less than the sum of its parts. Ugly.

 

You gotta give the builders credit for originality, but if I had wanted to race a '59 El Camino I would have gone a different direction with it.

 

Call it distorted; freaky; downright weird. Doesn't matter, if it runs it's cool in my book.

 

I saw a tribute to the Colt 45 at the Pavillions 5 or 6 years ago....pretty cool.

 

That was a classified add in a early 70's Hot Rod magazine I have somewhere

 

Shock and awe (aww?).

Shocked someone thought it was a good idea, massive shock value in most any venue.

Awe, with regard to the balls it would take to "fly" that thing down the 1/4mi or, "aww, that poor Elco. Look what they did to it."

 

Distortion.....more like abortion.

 

Yup, X2, Hot Rod Classifieds, IIRC around 1973?? And for sale unfinished, considering how grossly out-dated the car was by 1973 standards, I would bet that it never raced.

 

"When there’s distortion, something isn’t quite right."

So, I take it you are not a fan of Picasso or Dizzy Gillespie?