Just found this thread on here. Somebody is looking to find this Altered. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...edge-altered-anyone-remember-this-car.525645/ The wild wedge.
Managed to grab a few while doing the other threads LOL. Before he began his long association with Joe Pisano in the Funny Car ranks, Sush Matsubara was well-known for his wheelwork on the Mondello & Matsubara Fiat Fuel Altered with car owner Joe Mondello. Funny Car legend “Big Jim” Dunn rose to national prominence in the early 1960s with the Dunn-Merritt-Velasco Fiat Topolino. The car originally ran blown on gas but switched to nitro in mid-1963. Good shot of Nanook Rat Trap Wild Willy
SUSH MATSUBARA A definite crowd favorite, Sush Matsubara, near lane, completes his burnout. This car would later be painted with the familiar Mondello & Matsubara livery and eventually set the national record with their 427 Chevy wedge-powered Fiat fuel altered at 7.24, 213 mph at the 1969 U.S. Nationals. Pure heaven
So, were they producing a one piece glass T with the wheel wells recessed? Or was this a homebuilt body mod? Like the wedge body?
there is something about the pic of the 434 33 thats makes me go back and look at it over and over again
Charlie Hill and Pork Zartman are from Central PA. My parents and there friends speak ofCharlie from time to time.
Pork was out of the picture by the time Charlie built the Altered. I believe it was driven by "Cheater Bob" Parmer.
Yea , thats correct. Pork drove the Filthy Forty. Charlie gave strict instructions that the car never be washed. May not have looked the best, but was a real runner.
Jim Head raced a '55 Chevy in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on the day he turned 16 on Sept. 5, 1964. He went on to race a C/Altered Bantam roadster and a number of small-block entries through the tail end of the 1970s. One of his earlier entries was a D/A '57 Corvette pictured
The driver of "Dead Expense," a Fiat coupe, watches for the green light on the "Christmas tree" at Grayson County's Elk Creek Drag Strip. Electronic starting and timing systems replaced the flagmen of the early days. (Roanoke Times photograph)
Well been doing the history thing but it's time for more altereds. Got a bunch today. Acker's Automotive AA/A Al Carter beautiful black roadster California Speed & Sport AA/A Calumet Auto Parts Fiat Early Nanook Holiday Olds sponsor with HEMI engine Easley & Holden AA/A roadster Easy Rider Fiat Exotic Painting by Sweat AA/FA Front Mount Blown sbc BB/A Unknown fuel altered wheelie
A few more LOL. A few of GAB Gabby Bleeker. Hyder & Koulan Coupe Hyder & Koulan & Birch roadster. Plain Vanilla A/A injected Pure Heaven II vs Pure Hell Pure Hell a little crossed up Pure Hell wheels up Pure Hell
And some more. Rat Trap Richardson Motors A/A Wild pipes Russel & Rice handout Stone "T' Thurmond Bros. Walt's Puffer Warlord maybe ???
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