This one I posted a couple months ago and it was stuck in my memory and had to go find it. Imaging being at a stop light way back in the early 60's and this monster pulls up alongside you . Really wild for way back then
The Younts brothers did build beautiful model dragsters and had a series in the short lived Rod & Custom Model Car magazine on how they did it. I always wondered what happened to them, anyone know ?
There is an interesting article on this car, the owners and the car's history in a Hot Rod Deluxe magazine. I have all HRD mags, but damned if I can find that particular article again. I think that it was around 2008/2009 time frame.
If I'm not mistaken I believe that car still exists in pretty much the same form as it was in that photo. So some unsuspecting Prius driver could conceivably have that same experience today.
I know that it’s been posted plenty of times, but ; This one may be more intimidating to the driver.................
Posted this same pic a while back in a different thread and it got deleted.. Apparently, someone here thought it was a r@t rod!
Someone beat me to the High & Mighty. I think this vantage point does the car more justice. This was considered to be "intimidating" for it's time.
In the early nineties i watched Lou Sattelmaier run this beast at the Indy Goodguys event with a less altered chassis and a blown Hemi. Awesome car. I wonder what became of it after his passing?
The car was sold at auction, though it was much different (modernized) but looking in good or restored shape.
Gabby Bleaker's Bantam, sure fits the thread, but personally I think the earlier iteration with blown Olds was far more intimidating . He ran 9.7s in 1960 with a 420 inch olds when the years fastest dragsters were only on 9.3. By time the Hemi rebuild was done there were dozens of Fuel Altereds , all with more or less the same car, built to the familiar AA/FA formula.
I still have my 1961 HotRod Yearbook that has event pics of the car, and said it spun the tires so fast it melted holes in the starting line. Fast forward to 1984, and a bunch of us head to Chowchilla for the boat drags, as a friend from SoCal was racing a Blown Gas Flatbottom with a big Arias engine. We get there and find them in the pits, and also find that the same Texas company sponsored the Top Fuel boat of Eddie "The Thrill" Hill- along with his very gracious wife, Ercie. He also had a sweet lifted, hopped up Bronco to haul the boat to the water. He was the champ and record holder at the time. We were all staying at the same hotel in Fresno, and we noticed that the hot tub was right outside the window of our room. Screen came off, and cannonballs out the window commenced. So the next day we get yakking in the pits and I tell him about the Yearbook, and he grinned and shook his head, said that critter was just crazy lol.. He gave me one of his boat T-shirts and autographed it, whole weekend was great. Flash forward ten years, Sears Point right after the four-second run. I dug out the T-shirt and wore it, and found his pit and stood by the rope. Pretty soon he spied the shirt, and kept looking at me- pretty soon he came over and says hey, I know you.. Yep, Chowchilla and Irvine Lake in 84- remember the cannonballs into the hot tub? He starts laughing and shaking his head, and signs my shirt again with the new date. They were genuinely nice people, and did everything to put on a good show
I'm still partial to this one, has always been fun- original 406/405 car, 427 with a 4K converter and 5.14 gears. A little true story from the 70's.. A few years ago I had the 406 car out, and at the time it had the 14:1 427 in it, .660 Delong cam, Milodon gear drive, cross-ram with two 650's, and the 3" exhaust with straight-thru truck resonators- it ain't real silent, and with a solid left engine mount, the whole car shakes at idle. So I'm stopped at a red light coming into town, and a Rabbit convertible pulls up behind me. After a few seconds, this incredible chick jumps out, perfect Farah Fawcett racehorse legs in very short side-slit shorts, short tank top, great tan, and comes up and starts waving her arms and yelling at me- "DO YOU REALLY THINK IT'S FAIR TO SUBJECT OTHER PEOPLE TO THE NOISE OF THIS CAR???" She was so mad she never noticed that "The Girls" had escaped from her skimpy top and were helping give me hell... Speechless, I was..
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