VERY nice guys. Gotta love the old days when every trip to the Eat N Park restaurant was like a trip to a car show.

Diablo,

How many years did it take to progress from near stock to all out puller?
What are the wheels for under the weight box? Nose dive protection?

And what's the reasoning for converting to a later model front end on this truck? clearance?

Here are some of my cars over the years. the 70 Duster was my first NHRA stocker. When I converted it to 71 it was also the first hi comp 340 stocker to hold the NHRA record in the 11's. the Demon was the first low comp 340 to hold the record in the 11's and the 10's. The 70 Dart was a car I bought and my good friend Eric Voigt drove. The pic of the car on the trailer was OCIR. My Grandfather helped me build that trailer. The Demon pic is Fontana and the Dart pic is Las Vegas.

Started pulling with the truck in the early 80's. For years there weren't many rules so we ran 440's with Nitros. Rules really didn't starting coming in until late 90's. In 2004 things started getting serious with engines and rules. It was a 500ci club back then. After about 850hp we could not get the truck frame to stop bouncing so we took about 6 months and built a chrome moly chassis in 2008. After we did that the rules changed to follow the NTPA rules of 650ci. Thats when we had about 5-6 years of playing with the 4.840 B1-TS engines. 2013 was the year we switched over the the 5" Goodwin Hemi's. Our last B1-TS engine is still running strong in a pulling truck from Mass.

We swtiched body styles just to give the truck a new look. The old body is still at our place for a keep sake. The wheels under the front are for exactly what you said. There was a big accident where the transfer skid malfunctioned and the skid hit the back of the truck, dug the front bumper into the ground and flipped and crushed it.

Love red Demons!!

Pops about to put a whoopin on that Ferd with his new Maxie...

Looks to be a Coppertone coloured Maxi ??

Here's mine back in the early days.

Same car 1975 my Dads car yard and then 2000ish me.

Early 1970's and running a 4 speed 426 MW.

downunder

That looks like an early Bunker Hill shot.The quarter mile there had a SHORT shutdown distance.

1998

'Da Grove in '84 or '85.

da grove 1987 Labor Day Weekend

The good old days!