The "Wire Car" was called that because the rear of the body was held up with wires -Look at the photos in the Wire car section and you will notice the thin lines running next to the rear bars. It was probably the most expensive ProStock car built at that time, I have heard numbers in the 250K range, that includes material, man hours, research and development costs etc. It weighed about 1880 ready to go. Pappas and Oldfield could pick the car up, less motor and trans, but with all the other suspension pieces and carry it around. It never ran, as Don Carlton was killed before it got finished. I believe it has been restored, but do not know where it is. There were numerous magazine articles about it in years past.