I meant to post this a while ago and had a senior moment..... for a few weeks...
Bryan mentioned this car in the November news letter and I had taken a pic of it at the Garlit's museum. It is crammed in along side many other historic cars, so is hard to really get a good look at.
-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Wednesday 9th of December 2015 07:20:47 AM
bowtie said
Dec 9, 2015
Cool!
Lost in the 60s said
Dec 9, 2015
As an interesting side subject, this is supposed to be the car that spawned the term "rail" for drag cars.
Lost in the 60s said
Dec 9, 2015
It wouldn't be fitting to leave out Don's iconic car that was cut in half by a trans failure...this explosion led to the evolution of top fuel rail cars going to rear engine powered. Don had also suffered some severe burn injures previous to this from blower explosions and swore he would never sit behind the engine again.
It was impossible to get a pic without glare from some angle.
This is the car as it was. I don't remember if it is the actual car rebuilt or a recreation.
This was his first car.....he has every car he ever built in that museum. Some of them are built from parts saved after wrecks and some are recreations of cars he sold that were wrecked or scrapped or he was never able to track down and buy back.
SShink said
Dec 10, 2015
Lost in the 60s wrote:
As an interesting side subject, this is supposed to be the car that spawned the term "rail" for drag cars.
Look at where that gas tank is mounted. Yikes!!!
Lost in the 60s said
Dec 10, 2015
SShink wrote:
Look at where that gas tank is mounted. Yikes!!!
And it has a pump to pressurize it. Follow the fuel hose out the bottom, it goes directly to the rear carb, no mechanical pump to rob hp...
-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Thursday 10th of December 2015 05:47:19 PM
I meant to post this a while ago and had a senior moment..... for a few weeks...
Bryan mentioned this car in the November news letter and I had taken a pic of it at the Garlit's museum. It is crammed in along side many other historic cars, so is hard to really get a good look at.
-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Wednesday 9th of December 2015 07:20:47 AM
As an interesting side subject, this is supposed to be the car that spawned the term "rail" for drag cars.
It wouldn't be fitting to leave out Don's iconic car that was cut in half by a trans failure...this explosion led to the evolution of top fuel rail cars going to rear engine powered. Don had also suffered some severe burn injures previous to this from blower explosions and swore he would never sit behind the engine again.
It was impossible to get a pic without glare from some angle.
This is the car as it was. I don't remember if it is the actual car rebuilt or a recreation.
This was his first car.....he has every car he ever built in that museum. Some of them are built from parts saved after wrecks and some are recreations of cars he sold that were wrecked or scrapped or he was never able to track down and buy back.
Look at where that gas tank is mounted. Yikes!!!
And it has a pump to pressurize it. Follow the fuel hose out the bottom, it goes directly to the rear carb, no mechanical pump to rob hp...
-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Thursday 10th of December 2015 05:47:19 PM