Altered wheelbases on the street

A brief shakedown cruise in Steve's Nova and Mr. Rich's Mopar that was finished just minutes before. You'll have to excuse the video, I was driving a stick car alone while shooting!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• awb
• street
• funny
• car
• match
• bash

[bowtie0069]

Yes it is.

[zythepsarian]

i always thought wheelbase meant the width not the height, derp

[bowtie0069]

It's neither- it's length from front to rear--width is left to right. The cars sat higher to help weight transfer.

[MMRD50]

NICE NICE NICE!!! I didn't know the stack fuel injection was that streetable.

[bowtie0069]

That one is all electronic--a computer keeps it driveable.

[MMRD50]

OK, so modern technology is adaptable. Are they the same injectors?

[bowtie0069]

Same basic set-up with bungs welded in for the EFI stuff--computer controls fuel and timing.

[MrRonnieG]

My buddy and I ran a BM/P '59 Plymouth, back in '68, with a 392" Chrysler, dual quads, 505 Isky roller, headers, balanced & blueprinted by Raceway Engineering (Whittier, Ca.). HOWEVER, we also had an Art Carr torkflite with the 7,000 RPM stall speed torque converter which was GUARANTEED to 7,000. Well, turned out to be a bad promise. I hit "drive" and it blew up like C-4. Split the dashboard, blew the right door off (fibreglass), broke my leg and destroyed the car. So watch Art's shit!

[conin76]

thats so cool man. i am very jealous

[pmbbike]

Nothing cooler than driving around town with cars that have drag chutes.

[cotolaurel63]

I got the book about the build of this Wilshire Shaker Nova.It's called"How to make your own altered wheelbase car".It's available on line at a few places.

[psychodelicdragon]

those remind me of the good ol' days!

first funny cars were like these!!

[gassermann]

Hello: I have an old gasser that I have brought back to living it's a 1963 corvette

split window that has raced since it was new call orange peel it raced on the west

coast anyway I built up an endrele fuel injection with the efi setup and was curious

if I could make contact with guys that running in the your video to see if we

could compare notes. i'll try to post a video of my car at test and tune last fall

by tonight so you can take a look my email is gassermann@gmail.com thanks

[audruicq1]

@bowtie0069 Wheelbase: Distance between the centre of the front and rear axles. Not length of the car.

[AAVista]

Is that a 1965 Dodge Coronet driven behind the Chevy Nova?

[kevs56chev]

Magnante is god