1967 Funny Car Revisted

[Mike Gaines]

Here is a pix from 1967 (48 years ago) where I am getting ready for a pass in my Funny Car....just had to slip on my face mask with Breathers (so I wouldn't gag on the Nitro Fumes) and put on my fireproof gloves.

 

[cryplydog]

Mike, have you been active in drag racing and building all of this time or did you go dormant for a period of time. Anyway you are a real animal and I enjoy your posts as many others on this site! WOW!

 

[Gpuller]

Any idea where the car is?

 

[ozymaxwedge]

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[super-bee_ski]

Mike Gaines!
Awesome dude!
I'm in AWE!

You truly Drag Raced, and furthermore..."In the ERA"
It was all groundbreaking then!


PS: Was this car a Hemi powered car?

 

[Mike Gaines]

Mike Gaines!
Awesome dude!
I'm in AWE!

You truly Drag Raced, and furthermore..."In the ERA"
It was all groundbreaking then!


PS: Was this car a Hemi powered car?

Answers:
I lived in central Illinois and raced primarily in central and southern Illinois, St Lous area and Indianapolis Area.
I sold the car in 1969 (when I moved to California) to a guy in Burlington Vermont, never seen or heard about again.
I raced from 1963 (with my brand new 63 Plymouth Max Wedge aluminum nosed car) thru 1968. Built the Funny car in 1966.
My Funny car was, I believe, the GRANDFATHER of ALL WEDGE EFFORTS. The motor in the Funny Car was out of my Max Wedge.
It was a Stage III Max Wedge. I installed a Crane Roller Cam, Vertex Magneto and the Hilborn Fuel Injection running 80% Nitro and 20% Alcohol. Torquefilte Trans with 8 3/4 rear end with 4.88 gears. Car weighed 2400lbs.
I owned the Max Wedge Motor and could not afford to buy a new HEMI motor for the car....so I made the most out of my Wedge Motor. I think I was probably the ONLY guy in the country running a WEDGE powered Mopar Funny Car....but its what I had. I could NEVER outrun a similiar build Hemi (with him running Hilborns on Nitro also)...but I did regulary beat the Pontiac and Chevy Match Race Funny Cars.
I was NOT drag racing from 1968 until the Fall of 2014 when I bought my current 1966 Dodge Coronet Pro Street Car.
I raced it pretty much like I bought it during the last few months of 2014 running a best of 11.85 @ 112MPH.
I built the 505" stroker motor in Oct of 2015 and just got to the track once during the late fall of 2015. All ready for a full schedule of racing for 2016 starting the with MARCH MEET at Famoso (Bakersfield, Ca) and the Mopar Nationals (Mopars at the Strip, Las Vegas,NV) the end of March.
I now have a genuine 10.70 car and I am going to relive drag racing all over again.

 

[khryslerkid]

Have you raced on the east coast?

 

[Mike Gaines]

Never raced on the east coast.

 

[Budnicks]

Cool car from a great era...

do you have any photos of other cars, yours or anyone's...LOL from the era,
you haven't already shared with us

Budnicks Likey :headbang:

 

[Mike Gaines]

Cool car from a great era...

do you have any photos of other cars, yours or anyone's...LOL from the era,
you haven't already shared with us

Budnicks Likey :headbang:

I will look in my box of old pics and see.

 

[hangn0ut]

Ya hear the tower burned up at Famoso? They are doing their best to have something together for the March Meet. Hope it all works out...

 

[sandbagger]

Mike please share me info with us on the alum nosed car......early mid 60's racing before the Hemi's ruled is very cool time in Mopars history! :headbang:

 

[Budnicks]

Ya hear the tower burned up at Famoso? They are doing their best to have something together for the March Meet. Hope it all works out...

Yeah I saw that a couple days ago too, on dragnews {?} sucks,
I hope they get it all going in time for the March Meet at-least...