Back when I owned a Corvair and collected Corvairabilia, it was interesting to see how reverse rotation, rear-mounted V8s (that is, behind the transaxle) were featured quite a bit in articles from the ‘60s, but everything seemed to rapidly switch to mid-engine kits (by Crown and others).
It’s almost as though people quickly figured out that so much weight in the rear was not a good idea.
This is FUBAR2 built by Goodies Speed Shop. Goodies was started by the father of my friend, who of course had little interest in cars at all and his dad had given that up shortly after selling the stores. However in the garage there were pictures of many of the drag cars that Goodies built and sponsored back in the day. The cover of the issue of Car Craft that featured the car was honored enough that it made it on the wall of the living room and the coffee table was a very wide mirror polished Halibrand slot mag with a thick piece of tempered glass.
On first viewing of the picture I took note of the flares and rather large wheels at the rear. My brain dismissed what was above as some sort of architectural feature in the background. When I enlarged the picture it became apparent that a “War of The Worlds” invasion was not taking place in the background but rather a holy hell what is that doing in the back of the Corvair realization.
Does it really matter if go in a straight line?
Apparently you have never drag raced. Yes, it does matter.
Pretty cool ! I wonder what ever became of it. I once saw an old photo of a street rod with a Porsche type 547 four cam in the back.
Oversteer isn’t much of a worry when the front wheels are three feet in the air!
Should be able to pull that wheelie for the entire 1/4 mile.
Back when I owned a Corvair and collected Corvairabilia, it was interesting to see how reverse rotation, rear-mounted V8s (that is, behind the transaxle) were featured quite a bit in articles from the ‘60s, but everything seemed to rapidly switch to mid-engine kits (by Crown and others).
It’s almost as though people quickly figured out that so much weight in the rear was not a good idea.
This is FUBAR2 built by Goodies Speed Shop. Goodies was started by the father of my friend, who of course had little interest in cars at all and his dad had given that up shortly after selling the stores. However in the garage there were pictures of many of the drag cars that Goodies built and sponsored back in the day. The cover of the issue of Car Craft that featured the car was honored enough that it made it on the wall of the living room and the coffee table was a very wide mirror polished Halibrand slot mag with a thick piece of tempered glass.
Here is the cover http://99wspeedshop.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Car%20Craft/cc-1972-06.jpg of the issue from which the featured black and white came.
Thanks for the info Scoutdude!
On first viewing of the picture I took note of the flares and rather large wheels at the rear. My brain dismissed what was above as some sort of architectural feature in the background. When I enlarged the picture it became apparent that a “War of The Worlds” invasion was not taking place in the background but rather a holy hell what is that doing in the back of the Corvair realization.