You know something is totally BangShifty when we bump SEMA 2013 coverage back for it! This recreated 1959 Chassis Research twin engine dragster is currently for sale in Ohio and whoever built it did an amazingly great job of getting the entire look just about dead nuts perfect. The builder recreated a Scotty Fenn/Chassis Research TE448 chassis from the front end to the gently curved bars that are there to protect the driver in the event of a crash. The car is powered by a pair of 283 Chevy engines that both wear six-Holley two barrel carbs. The authenticity continues with the use of an Olds rear end, hand operated drum brakes, real Halibrand magnesium wheels, a mono leaf front end from a 1940 automobile of some stripe, and the whole thing is on a 145-inch wheelbase.
The coolest part of the race car is the “nose art” painted on the cowl because as you will see below it is the exact recreation of some real WWII bomber nose art. The “Double Trouble” name comes from the same plane that inspired the cool paint on the car. We have no idea if the builder had original plans, built the car on information he gleaned from the internet, or recreated it from images but we salute whoever did it because unless you are among a very small percentage of complete drag freaks, you’d be challenged to discern this car from and original on outward looks along. The use of a Powerglide transmission is a giveaway and unless it was gas welded together the welds may be a bit of a giveaway, but other than that, you’re rolling twin engine 1959 style.
This thing is so cool it nearly hurts to look at.
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CRAIGSLIST FIND: RECREATED 1959 TWIN ENGINE DRAGSTER – 283ci Small Blocks a pair!
A friend of mine, Chad Bangerter (CB Rods in Sunset, Utah) built that dragster. I recreated the nose art for him.
Excellent! And a great job, Elmer – but I don’t see the art in Brian’s pics. Hope he’ll add a shot.
What happened to our BSer who was building a twin engine rail? I haven’t seen a post from him in a while.
Dan
Dan…your refering to Rocky Phillips EVIL TWIN I’m sure…the car is done….and does some wicked old school smoke shows….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3jpxPKDSEU
Wonderful recreation, but this design with the rails coming to a point is a TE-440. The TE-448’s had parallel rails up to a front crossmember.
That’s a very nice looking car. I saw it in Bowling Green a year or so ago. Damned shame you can’t run it, at least to the 1/8th. So sck of safety nazis…
2x. Cackle is stupid. Let ’em run!
I’d love to pilot it down the quarter mile.
That takes awesome to a hole new level, that thing is so neat I am speechless
That car was a blast to build and on a budget of about $4000 It originally had twin wcfbs on each engine and steels on the rear,and yes Mike did an excellent job with the art work. Along with the boys a Lakeside Fab who helped with the tubing and aluminum work
It took a little research to complete but was done in about 6 months at my shop in Utah CBRODZ. Jack Harris also gave some insight into how the twin engines may work since he ran a twin engine car in the day and everyone had insight into how it wouldnt work
So at a show in Wendover Ut we where invited to run on the old 1/4 air strip track similar to the 60s we made 3 passes and it was quite the hoot the cat ran in the 11s having to get out of the gas at half track because of a bump in the track and then again at the top because of the 513 gears not to over rev the engines
The car was built to show and bring back memories of great times of the past
This can be seen on you tube under my builds at CBRODZ1
Thanks
Oops, I meant “Lakes Fabrication”, not Lakeside
nice build, im looking to get involved in such a build, aluminum pipe &tube are my specialty and im also very good with alignment and placement of bracketry and such,,re. [email protected]