Features Altered Wheelbase Picture Thread

Found an interesting construction shot from the AWB Funny Cars article in HRM Yearbook #6. Caption says it's "Dick Landy's Dodge Dart". Might be a little hard to see, but check out that Swiss cheese chassis! Wonder how many hole saws they went through?

 

They must have drilled on that frame for DAYS! Impressive amount of work.

 

Sigh...it's RUNYAN

 

Sigh I just COPY the captions not write them

 

The ronnie runyan corvair is owned by one of my crew members. He has a few others also. The corvair is on his list to restore next. Its a cool car.

 

This is terrific. The Mississippi Rebel is a new one for me. Can't get enough of Marty Johnson's work.
Fulton -- Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, elsewhere? A thousand feet and narrow as hell.
More, please, if you have them. Thanks.

 

Does anybody know anything about this one?

 

Awesome AWB and Stock video.
Factory backed efforts, redneck hack jobs, flag starts, dry hops... Even Doug Nash's Bronco Buster and Dale Armstrong's Canuck

 

Never saw this pic before. Whats the back story. Looks like it had a front bumper mounted on the rear

 

is that a pic after the crash at Detroit dragway? its a rear bumper look at the dip in it for the license plate.

 

Thanks Saxxon for the awesome video. I haven't watched drag racing in years because it's just a battle of computers and money now, but I could watch this all day long (same with Grand National stock car racing).

RC

 

I should have been more specific. I was refering to the Golden Commandos car pic posted by Guffy

 

Then consider going back and correcting the mistake in your posting rather than furthering the error.

 

Yes OH master I will jump right on it

 

This is the holy grail of mopar awb reading. Its the factory technical report on the feasibility of making the modifications to a b- body. Every cut; weld and modification is recorded here. There is even a parts list. Some factory pics were shown earlier in this thread at the conversion company chrysler hired called amblewagon. These pics precede those. these pics were taken at chrysler. This collection of pics records the first ever awb car being created. This mule car was then presented to amblewagon to make more after it was determined to proceed with the project. There are many ways amblewagon changed the way the cars were made. They for sure did not follow the procedure outlined here. Notice the cofidential on the cover. On one of the copies i have multiple autographs of my heros. see how many you can make out. sadly several have passed away. I have had personel conversations with every factory driver exept dave strickler. Great memories.

 

It wasn't a mistake in my posting it was a mistake in the ORIGINAL caption

 

i don't know why the phone flipped some of the pics. i don't know how to flip them back. loud bang we all appreciate your hard work posting all of these pics. one posting with a wrong caption is no big deal in my book for all of the work you have done.

 

That's awesome. I never realized so much went into the conversion. Now I just have to find a Coronet

 

you would be surprise by the efforts the factories put into their racing development. mopar had multiple mule cars running around. the engineers worked on everything from hood scoop height to injector stack length to tires. the engineers reported back to a variety of higher ups. the names of everyone that received that particular report are listed on the bottom. the reports make for great reading as they show the progression of the program and their progress. successes and failures are recorded with the dates the tests were done. arranging a stack of reports by their date allows the reader to follow along as the cars developed. during the winter of 64-65 several cars were loaded up for testing in california at rented tracks. the awb and super stock cars didn't happen by accident it was a all out factory effort.

 

i should mention that forrest pitcock gave me his personal copy of the report. its due to forrest that you were able to view this rare piece of factory awb history. for those that don't know who forrest pitcock is he was a factory plymouth engineer. he has many credits to his name. he was heavily involved with the development of the stack fuel injection unit. he was also involved with the golden rod record setting land speed car. he was a member of the golden commandos club. he also a test driver piloting both super stock and awb cars. he was a regular competing at the track. a great contributor to everything mopar during those years.

 

Here are some of the photos from RACER-X so you can read the great back story of the Mopar AWB builds.

 

the 635 number on the fender is the number used by the engineers when they refer to this particular car. so not only was this car used for sanctioned races it was also a test car. im surprised forrest is leaning on the front fender. I would assume its aluminum due to the single headlight grille. it doesn't look like there is a back seat in the car either.

 

Today's batch.

Dave Strickler's 65 cornet in many versions