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Drag Racing Discussions => Altereds => Topic started by: GlennLever on January 27, 2015, 07:05:48 AM
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A while back someone posted something about a Front Engine Dragster / Altered.
I came across this on Facebook
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Comp. Roadster
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That's a dragster, anything over 125 inch wheelbase is a dragster imo.
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But he is sitting in front of the rear axle.
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Guys first post here. I have been looking into getting a FED but looked at this recently. It is out of NY. Started out as a 125" S&W funny chassis and is currently at a 190". Some have said dragster and others altered. I would like to think at 190" it is a dragster. If anyone knows anything about it let me know. Going to contact the seller here shortly. Thanks Scott
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj286/hogmanSP/2e5af8cea6af45b87ec73c93cb14cf02_zpsd88098dd.jpg)
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I understand the length definition, but if you are not sitting on top of the rear end to me it isn't and FED
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Glenn, I am with you.
The first one of these I ever saw in West Texas the guy called a "Funster" back half of a funny and they grafter a dragster front end on. It also had a coupe body.
The green one with the bantam body in the first pick is about the slickest one I have ever seen.
I am struggling in choosing another FED or an altered and I would not want one of these. Maybe I need both?
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Guys first post here. I have been looking into getting a FED but looked at this recently. It is out of NY. Started out as a 125" S&W funny chassis and is currently at a 190". Some have said dragster and others altered. I would like to think at 190" it is a dragster. If anyone knows anything about it let me know. Going to contact the seller here shortly. Thanks Scott
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj286/hogmanSP/2e5af8cea6af45b87ec73c93cb14cf02_zpsd88098dd.jpg)
Scott had to think aboutit but knew I saw this car before.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/current-photos-of-modern-day-nostalgia-race-cars.601216/#post-6681179
Posts of that car before it was stretched. Think its same guy. ???
Luke
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Spoke with him on the phone and it is the same guy. Started out as a late 70's fuel car at 125". Setup as pictured as a 105 and us now a 190. Still has the clip for a 125"er. Thanks for the post.
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I'm not a fan of a long wheelbase with a wide body. It's different for sure.
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I am thinking about building a long wheelbase Altered. What I have in mind is about 190" narrow front and a small mono wing right behind seat. Also would like the body to be similar to the newer Top fuel Dragsters. Sort of a Flashback to the Future.
I think it would have several advantages that a standard altered does not have. My current Altered is 125" and has been around a while. I have it working really well now and think I want to move on and try new ideas and challenges. The long wheelbase Altered is the direction I am leaning.
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Here is a nice one do not know who owns it but it is interesting.
(http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp217/airetexbruce/1385222_700363553338939_3097005370692938111_n_zps49616b7c.jpg) (http://s413.photobucket.com/user/airetexbruce/media/1385222_700363553338939_3097005370692938111_n_zps49616b7c.jpg.html)
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That black beauty is owned by Russel Mills (Sydney Australia) and was built by Richard Botica - the same talented guy who built my Fossil Fueler injected nitro digger.
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OP: stretched altered, not FED, IMO. Wheelie bar upside down. IMO.
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Found this picture today of Dick Tibbits dragster that he built back in the eighties . It orginaly had rear suspension . He ended up taking the shocks out and ran solid struts . He held the national record for c/d with this car for a long time 302 smallblock with a Lenco 3 speed
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Anything over 122" is a transformer ... lol! ;)
That Botica built car is absolutely wicked and runs as a Top Alcohol Dragster.
As for the car in question, less the body, that is not anything new. All be it rare, that type of car has been built since at least the 70s and usually runs as a dragster.
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That black beauty is owned by Russel Mills (Sydney Australia) and was built by Richard Botica - the same talented guy who built my Fossil Fueler injected nitro digger.
Does anyone know what the wheelbase is on this Baby?
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Here is a nice one do not know who owns it but it is interesting.
(http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp217/airetexbruce/1385222_700363553338939_3097005370692938111_n_zps49616b7c.jpg) (http://s413.photobucket.com/user/airetexbruce/media/1385222_700363553338939_3097005370692938111_n_zps49616b7c.jpg.html)
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I'm With Nightmare ---- Comp Roadster even with the wider body.
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Guys first post here. I have been looking into getting a FED but looked at this recently. It is out of NY. Started out as a 125" S&W funny chassis and is currently at a 190". Some have said dragster and others altered. I would like to think at 190" it is a dragster. If anyone knows anything about it let me know. Going to contact the seller here shortly. Thanks Scott
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj286/hogmanSP/2e5af8cea6af45b87ec73c93cb14cf02_zpsd88098dd.jpg)
I'd call this a Modified Roadster. And if it is on alcohol a Modified Fuel Roadster. Kind of a hybrid dragster/altered.
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VIA: NHRA https://www.nhra.com/news/2009/misc-files-j-keeping-joneses-and-johnsons-etc (https://www.nhra.com/news/2009/misc-files-j-keeping-joneses-and-johnsons-etc)
(http://www.nhra.com/sites/default/files/Insider/2009/maas2.jpg)
And finally, what's the old saying ... "Everything old is new again"? Take a look at today's nostalgia Top Fuelers with their upright seating and compare them to this piece, Paul (P.G.) "Injun" Johnson's "funny digger" from the early 1970s. I actually found two pics of this car, built by Race Car Specialties and Jim Hume, both taken at Irwindale, but with two different car numbers: one with Johnson's (7717), and this one with Butch Maas' number (7720). Earlier this year, Bob Frey sent me a long list of cars that Maas had driven (compiled a year earlier in Pomona), but this one wasn't one of them, meaning that it was truly forgettable or that he only drove it a very few times. In the shot with Johnson driving, the car has canard wings in front of the rear meats, so I'm guessing that maybe Maas shook it down, it handled poorly, and they added the wings before Johnson took the saddle.
Also on DragList: http://www.draglist.com/draglist/search.php?q=Funny+Digger&search=Search&exact=exact&VIEW=Extended (http://www.draglist.com/draglist/search.php?q=Funny+Digger&search=Search&exact=exact&VIEW=Extended)
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Original car...
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Restored car...
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More of the restored car...
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:)
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The NHRA Competition License is divided into 2 types; Type A which is over 125" wheelbase and Type B which is up to 125" wheelbase so if the car that you're driving requires a Type A license then it's a dragster.