Most of my Flathead's parts found their way home directly out of my Flathead Jack's catalog, after many hours of homework, and input from Jack himself ! The man knows Flatheads !
You owe us the benefit of a time slip after watching the whole clip. Beautiful rail and runs great and straight. Slap some Ardun heads on those motors and lets see what it turns.
The cars of my childhood. I was 10 in 1970. My fondest memory was seeing Bill Maverick's "Little Red Wagon" wheelie-drag against Chuck Poole's "Chuckwagon". I'm guessing that was around 1969-1970 when I lived in Fremont not far from the strip. What a time that was! ruclips.net/video/xtimRaINbzQ/видео.html
The run looked real slow to me. I'm thinking lack of proper burn out, slow as molasses run, there just having fun, don't want to risk hurting or breaking anything. More of a show, an exhibition pass than anything serious. You got to remember this car is an antique and not updated with the latest safety equipment. They won't allow you to really run it without updates. To keep the rail original, unless your on an outlaw track all your allowed to do is a lame burn out and slow pass for safety reasons. We all want to see real passes and there are plenty of updated Fed's that do just that. This rail is a historical piece were blessed to see it running let alone perform a pass. I've seen disasters happen when you take a museum piece out of moth balls and run it. One unfortunate example was jimmy king, his new car want ready, so they loaded so El Diablo up headed up to Epping. Ran it, the crowd went insane to see El Diablo the legend return. Dropped pistons out the bottom at 3/4 track, burned her to the ground and ended his amazing career. I applaud this crew for doing the right thing and not risk this car and driver.
No information on anything and you didn't even play the beach boys. I have seen this dragster before. Nice piece of equipment that will stand up to the test of time as long as you don't over do it.
Most of my Flathead's parts found their way home directly out of my Flathead Jack's catalog, after many hours of homework, and input from Jack himself !
The man knows Flatheads !
As I recall from the '04 CHRR, this car ran in the mid 8 sec e.t.s. The car is a work of art and the sound, IRL, is amazing.
Beautiful dragster, very well done.
Thanks. 👍
Looks good, sounds good goes well! Yes i would have liked to know the time and top speed.
Really. ☹
Next time Please put the time down !!!
How could you forget this ?? : o
A lot of work for Nostalgia but I get it !!
You owe us the benefit of a time slip after watching the whole clip. Beautiful rail and runs great and straight. Slap some Ardun heads on those motors and lets see what it turns.
It ran 318 mph in 4.8 sec. There feel better. I feel sorry for your wife. 🤪
Are you kidding me. That is unbelievable!
Nice dragster, and there are a couple more videos of it...but...is it a secret how fast it is? Can we have a time on it?
No secret the car turned 328 mph in 5.33 sec.
Sweet rail, thanks for sharing
The cars of my childhood. I was 10 in 1970. My fondest memory was seeing Bill Maverick's "Little Red Wagon" wheelie-drag against Chuck Poole's "Chuckwagon". I'm guessing that was around 1969-1970 when I lived in Fremont not far from the strip.
What a time that was! ruclips.net/video/xtimRaINbzQ/видео.html
I'm still looking for footage of the first funnycars that they called topless, like the Flying Dutchman. www.nhra.com/news/2011/topless-funny-cars
I believe this is Cathy Lloyd in the driver's seat.
Sounds brilliant
Googled it, 2 x 284 cu. in., Hilborn, 170 mph @ 8.24 in the page I was looking at...sounds about right, beautiful car. Don't know what fuel...
So is it a v-16 or a v-8x2 ?
@@AndyFromBeaverton seriously? It is two Ford 8BA flatheads. They start out at 239 CI and are apparently bored and stroked to 284.
Why the hell did he cut the burnout short? That's the second best bit!
The run looked real slow to me. I'm thinking lack of proper burn out, slow as molasses run, there just having fun, don't want to risk hurting or breaking anything. More of a show, an exhibition pass than anything serious. You got to remember this car is an antique and not updated with the latest safety equipment. They won't allow you to really run it without updates. To keep the rail original, unless your on an outlaw track all your allowed to do is a lame burn out and slow pass for safety reasons. We all want to see real passes and there are plenty of updated Fed's that do just that. This rail is a historical piece were blessed to see it running let alone perform a pass.
I've seen disasters happen when you take a museum piece out of moth balls and run it. One unfortunate example was jimmy king, his new car want ready, so they loaded so El Diablo up headed up to Epping. Ran it, the crowd went insane to see El Diablo the legend return. Dropped pistons out the bottom at 3/4 track, burned her to the ground and ended his amazing career.
I applaud this crew for doing the right thing and not risk this car and driver.
Dragster.... defined
Sounds good, looks good -- but no info on speed or ET??????
E.T. & MPH ?
Drum Slayer it runs 8 second quarter miles 😂 faster than your shit
312mph at 3.4 sec.
It truly isn’t a flat head anymore
anybody know the displacement of these two 8BA's? Must be greater than the original 239
Dual hellborn injection 😍🤤
Yep. "Hilborn" . Not as powerful as a roots blower, but still wicked looking.
No information on anything and you didn't even play the beach boys. I have seen this dragster before. Nice piece of equipment that will stand up to the test of time as long as you don't over do it.
Who are the beach boys? Do they have a hot rod? 😎
Don "Side Ways" Smith built this car in the 60's, he would cross the finish line side ways.
It's gotta be faster than the world's quickest single engine flathead FED....7.69
its a V16 dragster lol
Very strange machine!
no music man.
ET? MPH? WTF?
I bet in the 8s
Probably ran a 7.5
2flats = 200 hp 😊