Why do people build things? Why do some guys look at a pile of otherwise useless stuff and create things from it? The answer (we think) is pretty simple. Personal satisfaction. Guys build cars to impress themselves and if other people like them it is a bonus. This little Farmpunk dragster is a perfect example. It is powered by an air-cooled Wisconsin engine that makes about 50hp. It appears to be welded together from galvanized pipe. It is about as fast as a lawn tractor. Know what? We love it and everything it represents. It represents using junk or the things that the regular public out there sees as junk to make something cool and totally unique.

It looks to us that the whole drivetrain came from a small tractor of some sort. Just by how short the gearing is and how the shifter is oriented coming out of the little three speed gearbox. It has the look of a K-88 Chassis Research frame, which was the first commercially available drag racing frame and was the chassis that launched a thousand car clubs onto air strips and abandoned roads in post WWII America.

Some of you may think that this thing is not all that cool because it isn’t fast, has kind of a weird exhaust note, and for myriad of other reasons it does not spin your crank. That’s totally fine. Everyone’s allowed to have an opinion. Even if you dislike the car, you can’t dislike the attitude and creativity involved.

We’re loving this thing more than the 2017 Ridler Winner.