Today’s modern funny cars are cool with their 300+mph speeds, 8,000hp engines, and big league sponsorships. Nostaliga nitro funny cars incorporate the feel of the old days with some new tech blended in, giving us nitro fans the best of both worlds but there is nothing quite like a real deal, old school 1960s funny car body. This ’66 Charger body is a true survivor and is one of the first fiberglass funny car bodies made when those style cars started to dominate the sport. Built by a company called Fiber Glass Limited in Stone Park, Illinois, the seller claims it was one of just 11 bodies that the company made in 1966. Shown with the eBay ad are some old magazine scans that depict a young Don Schumacher sitting in his Charger bodied car which was apparently pulled from the same mold in ’66 as this one. Schumacher’s car had functional doors and this one may have also when it was new. Somewhere along the line the doors may have been ‘glassed closed.
We’re thinking that someone “updated” the body by making it a one piece unit a little later in its life because the seller does say that these were sold as having a one piece removable nose, doors, and then the rest of the body including the cowl, roof, and rear quarters as one piece. Along with the body, a potential buyer also gets a very bad ass period nitro hemi with Alcoa aluminum heads, and a ’64 Hemi block. Along with the motor is a narrowed rear end that has an aluminum Mickey Thompson center section for added coolness! There are no photos of the underside of the body where we could look to see patching and grafting of the formerly separate body pieces, but we’re taking the seller’s word on it.
Does anyone know the history of this car, or at least the last iteration of it with the name “Fantasia” slathered down the side? We’d love to hear it!
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Great find. I’m looking in to this. I’ll get back to you.