That’s rad hopefully someone digs up more photos! Before I reached the end I was thinking those modified fenders should make the car easy to identify. Also based on them reading closer to primer than the rest of the car and how cut they are to clear the headers I’m thinking they had to add the fenders after the fact to comply with a rule or class? I do agree that the polished fenders are probably when happened after the realized that the primer fenders turned into sails going down the strip. Parachutes? Either way very cool!
Before I built my RPU I talked with several full fendered drag racers, notably drivers of Super Gas roadsters, and they all said adding louvers or holes to the rear of the fenders was a must to vent high pressure build up and prevent the fenders from becoming wings.
@THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER that in mind I took a quick look back and I think the fenders are modified for that reason and not to clear the exhaust!
John Tebbutt gave up racing and became a Hot Rodder https://www.fox43.com/article/news/...unty/521-dd16b0b9-9f41-41c7-82bd-1f1268ea26ba
Hello, That is a nice set up for a roadster. But in reading that class on the side of the door area, AA/GS, it had to be from the 1965-67 time period. (Post 1960 because the Moon Tank is in the front) Those classes were being phased out for the top fuel, funny cars and factory stock experimental class competition. In that time period, they were relegated to exhibition runs and/or match races. If they had come out to the West Coast for said inclusion in the AA/Gas class, they would be competing against the likes of Ron Bizio in his Willys Truck. One of the last vestiges of the remaining Gas Coupe and Sedan Classes for competition. It was usually a draw to see those Gas Coupes running against each other for some folks, who missed the era back a few years earlier. If anything, the class listed would have been in AA/Fuel Altered to run against the likes of Willy Borsch and the “Winged Express.” Jnaki It was the beginning of the elimination of those well liked Gas Coupes and Sedan classes. Most dragstrips were already inundated with the top fuel and funny cars as attendance increases, so that was good for them. But, not for the little guys that once were the soul of drag racing. YRMV
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