There is something about a FED, with the nose planted sky high, the front wheels pointing at some weird angle left or right and the driver with his foot still mashed into the loud pedal that makes me grin like a Cheshire cat. You would need very large wedding tackle to drive a vehicle like that. Kudos to those that do. Cheers, Harv
If you gotta revive a 6 year old thread this is a good one to do. When I think of wheelies this is one of the best (in my opinion; not that there aren't thousands of good ones though).
If you can you should and if you do you will keep it up till something brakes or gets away from you just so you know where the line is. That AMX had a lot of Tricks done to it but was still a very street friendly car (well sorta). What a ride, yes I miss it.
If you love a good wheel stand then a SEGA event is where you need to go! You will absolutely OD on wheelies! Guaranteed!!!! 6sally6
^^^^That one is definitely the ultimate wheel stand! There is a picture of (I think) the Purple Potato Chip with all four wheels off the ground, looking like it jumped in the air.
Spotted this somewhere on the vast internet, Mickey Thompson and a go kart he used to build and sell. Cliff Ramsdell
Wheelies were way cool in the 60's. Today, meh...... The only cars that DON'T do wheelies are front wheel drive.
My friend Roger switched from leaf springs to ladder bars, car stood right up on first pass and bent the front axle which has been in the car since the early 60's.
Hello, As much as there is an allure of a wheel stand, it is out of control and the results are usually not good. There is no control for the steering and the only thing to do is to let off of the gas to let the front end come back down. In competition, by then, the opponent is long gone. Exhibitions by special made cars were different and for most exciting. Like the wheelies we used to do on our Schwinn bicycles and then graduating to lightweight motorcycles that easily lifted the front end. But in a hot rod or car, usually not for the street. As the competitive race cars got lighter in the front due to fiberglass and more power, there was the opportunity to raise the front end. The modified competition cars were usually the ones shown in photos. There are a few “what happened afterwards” photos available as the results of surprise events did not always have happy endings. Jnaki As good as Don Prudhomme is in all things drag racing, in his Buick powered FED 1960 Bakersfield Time Trials Prudhomme Buick FED A wheelie during eliminations usually means a loss. But sometimes, pure power and quickness overcomes an anxious foot stomp. The results were good this time… Tommy Ivo Twin VS. Adriance Appliance. Tommy Ivo Twin VS. Adriance Appliance
The wheelie was such a definitive element of drag racing to nine-year-old me and my friends that their existed in our English-second-language vocabulary the verb to drag, meaning to do a wheelie. As I got older, my greater appreciation has come to be for the subtle, skimming-the-surface wheelie, especially in contexts where they have no business occurring: the kind where you could swear you saw daylight under the tyre, albeit only for a moment.
old guy, well older than me says they painted the front steel wheels in a contrasting quadrated pattern so they could easily be seen doing a wheelie... car moves and the wheels don't spin = wheelie...
The Jalopy Journal
