Hey Goggles, now your digging up history, I first raced that car in 1971, it had some high tech pieces for the day, I made an fitted a complete 2x3 frame for that car, I then had Howard Conky ( show car engineering ) make up a roll cage that was a lot for that time period, today they wouldn't let the car compete without a lot more tubing, The engine was a 427Ci with a set of raised port cylinder heads that I designed myself, no one had any thing in that time period that I was aware of, the exhaust was raised 1/2 inch and the exhaust angle was changed by removing 1/2 in off the top of the runner, so it had a straight shot over the frame rail, I forget how many degrees it was changed BUT I still have the heads so I could measure, last I had designed the first mechanical fuel injection system that was a 4 port Hilborn bug catcher type that was mated to a tunnel ram manifold, nothing like that existed at the time, it was just a goofy idea I had, that fuel injection with a plenum would mix the fuel better and make more power, after making the system I had guru "Jim Kinsler" of Michigan flow the system for me and wow it worked well, now it's on most pulling trucks that you see on TV, that engine made 720hp which was very close to 1.69 hp per cube, pretty decent power for the time, The car today looks like the photo, it was never outside in weather so the car is pristine, the last owner is John Lennon of Richmond Marine near Honeoye lake, the car made a best run at Spencer Speedway of 4.80 time on the same track length of today, that was when we only had one clock time so being the highest class car I had to spot everyone, meaning if I spotted you, you would start the clock ticking and if I won I would stop the clock , now they have a independent clock for each lane so the time of 4.80 should be in the 4.70's if we had separate clocks at the time. I had run the 1/4 mile many time and the car ran it's best of 9.91 BUT it ran 143 mph, I never knew how to make it launch, but I made plenty of power to cover up my poor driving skills and I had many victory's. I also had the 69 Camaro that Leadfoot4 saw but I don't have any pics near me, I also got hurt pretty bad at Spencer when I had a transmission explosion in 1969, I had a 1956 T-Bird with a big block 438Ci Chevy with fuel injection and I had a trick transmission called a clutch flight, well they didn't last very long in 6 months they were extinct, That is how the rear engine dragster came about with Don Garlits, he had a very similar explosion that removed about a third of his foot, and Glenn Lazzar had one blow up that came up between his legs about a month after mine, he was very lucky that he didn't get maimed. Forgot to mention B&M Speed Shop , they did the machine work for me but I designed the engines and assembled them.
