Posted By: hemi-itis
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/14/15 05:40 PM
My pic's from the 2008 Hemi Reunion
Posted By: hemi-itis
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/14/15 06:06 PM
I wondr if I will ever see a gathering like this again in my lifetime
Posted By: mr_340
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/15/15 01:30 AM
1964 Plymouth Savoy, original lightweight MW converted to AWB with injected Hemi.
Posted By: mr_340
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/15/15 01:32 AM
Same car, many owners later, different paint, blown MW in Garlit's Museum of Drag Racing.
Posted By: mr_340
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/15/15 01:34 AM
Same car, now at Bushmaster's museum in Missouri.
Posted By: fullmetaljacket
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/15/15 01:39 AM
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! all those altered Funnies get the most host play like the Sunday Funnies, but lets not forget the true and rude first funny cars, The ultra rare (8) yeah, that's right (8) 2% cars made between 64'-65'
Those 2% led the warning shout louder than Paul Revere that the altered wars were coming.
Posted By: Rhinodart
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/15/15 04:48 PM
I was there for 4 days, had to bring 4 cars so it took a while!
I will never forget that show, best of all time and I was at the Englehart Reunion too, the second best of all time!
A memorium to THE man!
http://racehemi.maxwedge.com/topics/dicktowers.php
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/16/15 10:01 PM
My next door neighbors car, an original 990
Posted By: hemicar1971
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/16/15 11:08 PM
Sent this post to a member on here that back in the Eighties when we were both NHOA members, he went on an adventure of searching out all these cars. He has not posted in a couple of years on moparts, hope everything is OK with him. He knew a lot about all these 50 year old Hemis and many that were made from the 64s and other years.
Posted By: 6bblFLASH
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/17/15 04:31 PM
Posted By: fullmetaljacket
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/20/15 03:05 AM
Ralph. You've caught the AFX flu, haven't you. LOL.
Posted By: RMCHRGR
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/20/15 05:34 PM
Couple pics from Atco about 10 years ago.
Jake's Speed Equipment
Posted By: RMCHRGR
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/20/15 05:36 PM
Working on the Virginian AWB.
Posted By: RMCHRGR
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/20/15 06:00 PM
Couple pics I saved from the web.
Posted By: OUTLAWSSAA
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/20/15 11:53 PM
Posted By: fullmetaljacket
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/21/15 01:51 AM
It's a better fever to have then yellow.
Welcome to the Altered states of affairs.
By the way, Al Kirchenbaum wrote a great Mopar magazine article years back entitled "Altered states".
It was a great read and informative on the 15/10s. See you all this season at the track.
Posted By: RMCHRGR
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/21/15 03:01 AM
I talked with Lee Smith a little at the York Reunion when I took that pic, he was really cool. Not just hi, how are ya but some hardcore factoids to which he raised an eyebrow at me wondering how I knew this or that. He let me literally crawl around underneath the car which was great. Probably sort of odd seeing me on the floor under the car but when do you get to eyeball an original piece like that up close?
Those cars were truly wild. A factory altered wheelbase drag car just seems like an insane thing.
Posted By: fullmetaljacket
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 01/21/15 03:08 AM
I'll run any Altered car here heads up for any amount of $$$ with my Altered Eazyrider chopper Minibike. First front wheel to the 20 ft mark wins. LOL.
Oh by the way, a friend of mine once threw away in the garbage an original 15/10 AFX stainless steel K-member because it was cracking along some points. Go figure.
Posted By: B G Racing
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 02/01/15 10:41 PM
The Baugher A/FX is the Godfather car that I had years ago.It was a 64 Plymouth SS car and converted to A/FX,the front is 65 Plymouth.You can see it has the large 64 tailights.The last time I saw it was in Hanover Pa. and owned by Wentz and his partner.Back about 1989 my son and I stop to see it and gave Jeff the original title.
Posted By: VPofGreen
Re: Lets See them 50th Anniv Of The Original Funny Car - 02/01/15 11:12 PM
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