We're 10 Years Old! Yay!
It's ALIVE!
The debut of the restored Mondello & Matsubara Fiat...at the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield!
With Sush Matsubara's grandson Daine in the seat, Pete Eastwood, Brendan Murry and Karpo Murk fire this thing up for the crowd on Saturday afternoon. And you can see me scurrying around, ducking under the camera, taking still shots...
October 13, 2007
Oh yeah, and I hosed the main page which is why the page looks like it does. Guess I'd better practice more!
I'll have to get a back-up copy from home and fix this up...maybe I'll be forced to update, maybe?
NOBODY CAN I.D.
THIS CAR!!!
Yes Virginia, he does update the site!
Since the last car up here had been identified a while back (a disguised Keith Drum Blue Blazer), I had to come up with another head-scratcher.
When Steve Reyes was writing his Fuel Altered book (fuel altereds), he sent me a whole passel of photos to see if I could ID for him. I did really well with about 50%. This car was in the other 50%... Showed it around at the Chuy's Fuel Altered race in 2007, nope, no id. People vaguely remembered the car, but no clue on the owner - driver - anything. So, I try Bill Pratt's Draglist. Excellent site, if not a bit unwieldy to get around...and find the following info.
#109th quickest Fuel Altered, with a 7.560 ET,186.12 mph, Driver Claude Smets, Name - Sidecar, powered by Chev(big block), 32 Bantam, AAFA, CA, 1969
Sponsored by Exhaust Engineering, which is Doug Robinson's company, and who out there knows Doug? Ask him, doggone it!
Let me know what you know!
One more thing...here at
Fuel Altered Central, we're a bit short on pics of Fuel Altereds, between
1980 and 1990...
these are mostly the later model Transformer cars (either Fuel Altered
or Funny Car),
and we need to fill that chronological hole there...so we can bring
in the newer cars.
So scan them pictures,
and e-mail 'em to us here...at the "info" link below. Thanks!
Try the new Google search engine...just type in the
name of what you're looking for!
But, things I hope you WON'T find are...
"Funnys" , "Gassers", "Camaro",
"carbs", "Super Stock"...these have all been searched
for by previous visitors.
Oh, and you guys searching for Willie Borsch...click
on that "Winged Express" button over there on the left, right
above the "West Coast Altereds" button...it'll save you some
time. all righty?
IT'S A FUEL ALTERED SITE, OKAY?
E-mail me with any comments, suggestions,
or boatloads of fuel altered pics...
alteredinfo@mysterion.net
(copy and paste this address, those email harvesters are nuts!)
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