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Post by AL on Sept 23, 2013 14:24:51 GMT -6
Ca'-Mon, Lets Go for a RIDE, ............. ?Who's ---IN??
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Post by Bert on Sept 23, 2013 15:11:57 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing that one Al. If that doesn't get the juices flowing I don't know what will. 3:59 is the best shot of the whole video. Good Stuff!
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Post by AL on Sept 23, 2013 16:37:44 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing that one Al. If that doesn't get the juices flowing I don't know what will. 3:59 is the best shot of the whole video. Good Stuff! right-on, Bert, --very well said. -Al |
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Post by koffinbuilder64 on Sept 23, 2013 18:26:11 GMT -6
Kool stuff Al!! You made my day buddy!! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2013 3:46:24 GMT -6
sorry guys l am a dragracer but if it looks like like a dragcar it should go like a dragcar these guys that restore / build dragcars should treat them like dragcars and show no mercy and not take them out for sunday drives around the block this is my baby and l give it hell every time l sit in it  |
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Post by mrtc4w on Sept 24, 2013 4:25:29 GMT -6
Very KOOL video!!
Thanks for sharing!
Marty
Marysville, OH
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Post by AL on Sept 24, 2013 7:13:35 GMT -6
--Thanks for your interest guys. I posted this because I thought its Very KooL and Klassy. -There was abit of a Method to my Madness here, as well. I wanted to talk about the origin of Funny Cars, and how they got named "Funny" -cars. My understanding of it was -that back in the day, The original Funny's we're called this because they in fact looked "Funny" ! They we're like "Stockers" with the rear axle moved forward to gain more traction in Racing. Folks would go to the Drag Races in the mid sixties, and say "Hey" .... Look at that Funny car ! I believe most of us here know of this, but I wanted to share this for those may not know perhaps. ---Now, how these went from altered wheelbase cars to the "Flip-up" bodied cars, and still called Funny's, I don't know. --Soo, I'm looking for any education on this that I can get as well. Which is to say that I'm open to being corrected on the subject, or whatever someone wants to suggest or say. -or- if you just want to heckle, be my guest, but please heckle only me, since I'm the one who posted this. heck·ler (hklr)
tr.v. heck·led, heck·ling, heck·les
1. To try to embarrass and annoy (someone speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, or objections; badger.I did look at what Wiki defines as a "Funny-Car" and it pretty much matched what I said above. I'd like to hear of anything that you guy's may know on this subject, that I may not know. -AL  |
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Post by AL on Sept 27, 2013 0:31:45 GMT -6
 -Look Carefully you can see Paul, eating his lunch out at the edge of the Korn-Field, "Just-Waiting" ..... |
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Post by Honest Charlie on Jun 7, 2014 7:11:22 GMT -6
-Look Carefully you can see Paul, eating his lunch out at the edge of the Korn-Field, "Just-Waiting" ..... |
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Post by AL on Jun 7, 2014 21:43:34 GMT -6
a-ha ................
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Post by Bud Tugly on Jun 8, 2014 9:27:14 GMT -6
Great video Al - nice to see one of these beauties out and about even if it's just on the street. As to the origin of the term "Funny Car" your description is spot on, the original funnies were altered wheelbase production models until someone came up with the idea to put a 'glass body on what was essentially a shortened rail chassis to make the first "Floppers".
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Post by scurvydklown on Jun 8, 2014 15:10:25 GMT -6
Well, to be truthful, the early floppers were based on what were closer to Altered chassis than rail chassis, as the driver still sat ahead of the rear axle, and the bodies weren't being stretched yet (though some were narrowed, early on). Also note that some of the earliest floppers were actually gasser class cars, and not A/FX's. The Malco Mustang gasser was actually a two piece flopper body over the chassis of the earlier '33 Willys race car.
But back to the genesis of the "Funny Car" term, it began before the fiberglass bodies, with the Altered/Factory Experimental class, with front and rear wheelwells moved forward, and engine setback to the point that the induction stuck up just ahead of the windshield, or sometimes through it. There has been some back and forth over the more modern F/C designation standing for Fuel Coupe or Funny Car, but they'll always be funnies to me.
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Post by AL on Jun 9, 2014 0:08:28 GMT -6
thanks for the good info you guy's, ..... very interesting what was happening in the mid sixties with drag racing, lot's of Very, Very KooL stuff, ........ thanks.
-AL
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