Exhibition cars , how many were kitted ?

[Greg Myers]

Ok, we got the Little Red Wagon, Hurst HEMI under Glass , how many others were kitted ?

Pictures would be nice,

and it would be nice if everyone would read the previously posted responses so we don't keep getting the same thing over and over, just one nice steady list. 

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Edited June 6, 2017 by Greg Myers

[magicmustang]

LA Dart

 

Edited April 21, 2018 by magicmustang

[JollySipper]

Hurst Hairy Olds............

[vintagedragcrazy]

St ouch tone terror spin off of the little red wagon and lindberg just put one out under another name that I just can't remember at this moment!

vince

[gtx6970]

Tyrone Malone Superboss

 

Tommy Ivo 4 engine car. aka Showboat

 

There was actually 3 different Hemi Under Glass cars. The common / re-issued 1966 , a 1968 and also a 1969

 

Dodge fever pickup

Edited June 6, 2017 by gtx6970

[Greg Myers]

I wonder if this was a license issue ?

[Draggon]

[waynehulsey]

Pirahana

[Snake45]

Would Boot Hill Express count? I've seen at least one photo of it actually on a dragstrip. I don't know how often they actually ran it, or if they just did it once to show they could.

And, technically, the AMT '66 Barracuda funny isn't really a Hemi Under Glass. Mechanically, it's most like the '65 McEwen Barracuda, which was an attempt at a serious racer, not an "exhibition" car. The model is, more or less, that car, with a '66 body and HUG decals. (I've never seen the MPC '68 or '69 kits so can't speak to those at all.)

[Daddyfink]

Pirahana

The Piranha was an actual competition car, not an exhibition car. 

 

[Daddyfink]

Would Boot Hill Express count? I've seen at least one photo of it actually on a dragstrip. I don't know how often they actually ran it, or if they just did it once to show they could.

And, technically, the AMT '66 Barracuda funny isn't really a Hemi Under Glass. Mechanically, it's most like the '65 McEwen Barracuda, which was an attempt at a serious racer, not an "exhibition" car. The model is, more or less, that car, with a '66 body and HUG decals. (I've never seen the MPC '68 or '69 kits so can't speak to those at all.)

Well,apparently they made a second BH car for exhibition passes 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/boothill-express-where-is-it-now.765383/

Edited June 8, 2017 by Daddyfink

[GaryR]

The Piranha was an actual competition car, not an exhibition car. 

 

Not really.It raced, that's for sure, but it HAD NO CLASS it fitted in. AMT claimed it was a funny car, but it wasn't.It really was a short wheelbase, rear engine fuel dragster.But it never ran as one.I can't think of any real races the Piranha ran in. If it ever did, there weren't many.AND I'd be interested in what class it ran.

[Daddyfink]

Not really.It raced, that's for sure, but it HAD NO CLASS it fitted in. AMT claimed it was a funny car, but it wasn't.It really was a short wheelbase, rear engine fuel dragster.But it never ran as one.I can't think of any real races the Piranha ran in. If it ever did, there weren't many.AND I'd be interested in what class it ran.

Walt Stevens, and later Swingle, both drove it in Fuel, Funny Car and Match Racing 

[waynehulsey]

The one time I saw it at Willow Run in Oklahoma City was during a 8 car TF show in late spring 65. I was there go'fering with Bobby Langley's crew. Ivo, the Surfers, and the Frantic Four were booked in West Coast cars that I remember. Think the rest were Oklahoma and Texas cars. since Bennie Osborne is the only other one I remember. The Piranha was an exhibition runs only. I can't remember if it even made a full pass. The hot car pits were across a little creek that ran through the area with a wood bridge crossing it to get to the staging area. It was so low that it trying to cross the bridge it was scraping the front end and picking up gravel in the body work.  

[Xingu]

Well,apparently they made a second BH car for exhibition passes 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/boothill-express-where-is-it-now.765383/

Looks like that would have been one awesome/scary ride.

[TooOld]

[Mark]

Looks like that would have been one awesome/scary ride.

There are actually two of them...the one pictured was built to be part of a between-rounds "funeral procession" along with a few other vehicles.  The running one has smaller front wheels, a painted frame (show car has a chromed one), and a 426 Hemi (show car had a Desoto engine with Chrysler rocker covers).  The "procession" didn't do wheelstands, smoke the tires, or anything else...just putted down the strip very slowly.  Apparently it was done only once or twice. 

 

[Daddyfink]

Race Car

[Daddyfink]

This to me is an exhibition vehicle, Big Foot! 

All it did was crush cars and drive around the parking lot. A far cry from today's Monster Trucks. 

[gtx6970]

 

And, technically, the AMT '66 Barracuda funny isn't really a Hemi Under Glass. Mechanically, it's most like the '65 McEwen Barracuda, which was an attempt at a serious racer, not an "exhibition" car. The model is, more or less, that car, with a '66 body and HUG decals. (I've never seen the MPC '68 or '69 kits so can't speak to those at all.)

this may be true. But it was boxed and marketed from the beginning as Hemi Under Glass

[TooOld]

Race Car

It was built after the '66 NHRA season to compete in the "67 season but at the same time the rules were changed and basically created the Funny Cars (i.e. Dyno Don Nicholson) , so the new Mr. Unswitchable only raced in Match races during the '67 season .

[Daddyfink]

It was built after the '66 NHRA season to compete in the "67 season but at the same time the rules were changed and basically created the Funny Cars (i.e. Dyno Don Nicholson) , so the new Mr. Unswitchable only raced in Match races during the '67 season .

Well, I thought this car was not built until 1968, after he campaigned a 65 full roof, altered wheelbase car. 

[Mark]

this may be true. But it was boxed and marketed from the beginning as Hemi Under Glass

The AMT '66 kit was first issued in '67 as a funny car.  AMT didn't offer the Hemi Under Glass version right away, and didn't offer it for very long.

The MPC kit (there were '68 and '69 versions) is completely different, and was designed as the Hemi Under Glass from the start.  The chassis and interior got reworked afterwards for the LA Dart kit.  It's easy to forget, but back when those kits were first issued AMT and MPC were competitors and not brands owned by one company as they have been for the last 30 years or so. 

[Snake45]

It was built after the '66 NHRA season to compete in the "67 season but at the same time the rules were changed and basically created the Funny Cars (i.e. Dyno Don Nicholson) , so the new Mr. Unswitchable only raced in Match races during the '67 season .

IIRC there were no NHRA legal funny cars until, what, 1969? Until then, all those guys were earning their bread and butter match racing. None of the AWB stuff we love today was technically A/FX legal. Sometimes they'd run as Altereds or Fuel Dragsters and I think there was S/XS for a season but for the most part, the glory days of Funny Car were the story of match racing.

[gtx6970]

The AMT '66 kit was first issued in '67 as a funny car.  AMT didn't offer the Hemi Under Glass version right away, and didn't offer it for very long.

The MPC kit (there were '68 and '69 versions) is completely different, and was designed as the Hemi Under Glass from the start.  The chassis and interior got reworked afterwards for the LA Dart kit.  It's easy to forget, but back when those kits were first issued AMT and MPC were competitors and not brands owned by one company as they have been for the last 30 years or so. 

I stand corrected. 

I wasnt 100% sure when the HUG versus the Funnycar issue related to each other time frame wise (meaning which one came 1st )