We see lots of cool old drag cars around here but this one is in a league all of its own. For sale on eBay is this absolutely awesome former NHRA street roadster class machine that can in the C/SR category in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. What makes it so neat? How about the 323ci Buick inline eight engine that is equipped with FOUR Carter four barrel carbs! The car ran in the 13s and the seller claims that it won class several times over the period of its racing life at tracks like Irwindale, Lions, Riverside, and the NHRA Winternationals at Pomona. The body is all steel aside from the fenders and deck lid which are fiberglass (but period fiberglass at that!). From the gawky looking tall cage to the huge push bar on the back of the thing, this car is spectacular.
There’s a 1970 Winternationals participant sticker on the car that is all faded and curled, there is some really faded lettering on what’s left of the rear quarter panel, a 1956 Chevy axle with 4.11 gears, and the list goes on and on. The engine (as mentioned) is a humongo 323ci Buick straight eight that is packed with FOUR Carter AFB carbs, Jahns pistons, an Isky cam, a DuCoil distributor, and a custom made tube header. The transmission is a Buick three speed with a custom made scattershield thatwas designed to keep parts and pieces out of the stands and the driver’s lap. On the rear axle are bolted the same cheater slicks that the car likely ran on in the 1970s.
The street roadster class has morphed a LOT over the years but when this car was running it was (in our opinion) one of the neatest in the sport. Down in the C/SR category you weren’t looking at the quickest cars but there was lots of creativity happening and when you went up to B and A/SR the cars were really fast and still had the look of street going hot rods. Todays version of this class in competition eliminator is surely quicker and faster but the cars are far more advanced, developed, and removed from the original ethos that machines like this car lived by.
This car needs to be bought, rehabbed, and run!
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1970s?
This looks like the one of the cars that were around when drag racing first started in the UK in the early 1960s!
Especially with the Buick straight 8 – at least we put a GMC blower on ours. I think its very antiquated for the 1970s – maybe the seller is being a bit creative about its age or it was laid up in the 1950s and used in the 70s, then laid up again
Or its been in a time warp……
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