1934 Ford 5W Coupe Drag Car, Car Show Clips

[Music] at car show clips where a car is so much more than a set of wheel [Music] I'm Ted Bryan live in Monroeville Pennsylvania at the present live did a number of locations around the country during my working career right now I live in Monroeville and you're looking behind us at our 1934 Ford it's a nostalgia fuel coupe as cars were built in the 50s and 60s the history of the cars is pretty interesting as they began after World War two out on the dry Lakes in Southern California and the people that built the cars wanted to keep going faster so they started out with flathead Fords and then later on morphed overhead valve engines and ultimate engine was a Chrysler Hemi that they put in them and the quest to run more often and they they couldn't run at the dry Lakes all the time so they still are started building drag strips and when they did that that cars had better traction and they started relocating the engines in them so they became ultimately few all words and the car behind us is kind of regarded this type of vehicle is the parent of the fuel funny cars of today god blessed to have a ton of really good and terrific friends this car the car was painted originally in Philadelphia but as you know we car last year pretty severely happened [Music] the cars repainted and all the repair work done by a good friend Dave layout of the exotic cars out in Wexford Pennsylvania and some of the car had to be real a turd the lettering on it was done by gentleman Jim the painter from Philadelphia he's very well-known painter and graphic artist and he recreated a lot of the lettering when we destroyed it that he had done before but Jim painted famous cars of bill Jenkins the Jade grenade car jungle-gym Lieberman among others the engine in the car right now is a 472 cubic inch Donovan Chrysler Hemi it's a Chrysler Architecture from early Chrysler engines from 51 to 58 but Donovan in the early seventies decide they needed a more robust block so he developed the aluminum block that this car has in it now when the car was originally built in the first date you're ten years it's like well more than that until though I bought the car back in nineteen twenty thirteen the car had a 392 Cuba kids early Chrysler in it as they ran in Fuel dragsters and fuel all turns and fuel funny cars in the 60s and 70s but when we decided we were going to put it back on the track we thought we needed something that was a little more durable and reliable so we sold off the iron motor that had been with the car since so we built it and built this Donovan Hemi for it but we try to retrain some of the old things it's got 331 Chrysler iron heads on it engines seven point two to one compression as I said 472 cubic inches it's got a 871 supercharger on it Hilborn fuel injection and it runs on a mixture of alcohol nitro methane somewhere between 75 and 85 percent nitro methane and nitro methane is quite an is an exotic fuel and to take a bullet freeze [Music] it makes a tremendous amount of horsepower if you took this particular engine on gasoline would make somewhere around eleven or twelve hundred horsepower or an alcohol it might be upwards of 1,800 on nitromethane it's guys kind of the limit we can we can run anywhere from twenty two to three thousand horsepower depending on how hard we drive the supercharger and how much sparkley we put in it and what percentage of nitromethane we use sure the car back in the old days we used to just run as they did back in the 60s when we when we built this car in the 80s we would run eight sixties to nine 50s really in the quarter mile but the tires would be smoking the whole length of the track and it was all for show we didn't really try to go fast we tried to kind of have folks remember what the cars used to be like in the early 60s recently when we put the car back on the track two years ago we had to do some updates because the tracks are so much better now and the traction is a lot better so we started actually going faster with the car it's capable of running in the sixes at over 200 mile an hour just last weekend we ran just a short half pass out in Bakersfield California and a car went 791 63 without any throttle so it'll go as fast as we want it to do getting a hold of the track is another thing and making it stable all the way through is still another issue that we always have to deal with because it's about as aerodynamic as a flying barn well the car is an exhibition car because there's no class for it anymore back in the 60s it would have run as a double life you altered and in the early early 60s they had a classification that was called fuel coupes and those are all been long gone but people still like to remember so we run nostalgia events run English town New Jersey at Maple Grove Indianapolis Raceway Park new Alexandria Pennsylvania and recently California the California hot rod reunion and which was a lot of fun and we were one of the featured cars at three years ago and they have a nice exhibit at the Doubletree Hotel for the awards and they invite six cars to come over old cars and fire them up they call them cattle cars because of the way they sound on when the fuel motors are running so we fired our car up over there and they probably had 5,000 people on hand at the Doubletree Hotel that day so that was a lot of fun and then the last two years we actually put the car and ran it with the nostalgia few altars within a 13 or 14 very famous cars and there were a lot of photo shoots at the end of the track at famoso in California so it's really quite an interesting and unusually attended event I think they get 50,000 people there for the for the hot rod reunions you know when we run we run against other cars when we do the Nostalgia few altered shows and they have a six flat index which we're really not capable running that fast with this car just because of the weight of it and all but down it's it's kind of a combination of show and competition yeah we go up against other cars and last weekend we ran the old winged Express wild Willy boys car in the in the second qualifying round of the few all words so yeah we run run up against real cars and they run them as hard as they can events for them during the year we did the Pittsburg Dragway reunion in September at Keystone Raceway Park plus we'll do some other things in the area we some static car shows since Equus when the old announcer Pittsburgh a from driveway that's been gone since the mid seventies he puts on the tremendous cruise on an sonic in Bridgeville and they got 900 1000 cars here last year and we'll take the car down there and start it up in the parking lot for the folks and I always thought there's a lot of a lot of people's attention it's kind of funny I guess prices are what people will will pay I can easily say it's a six-figure car whether you would get that or not depends upon the time of day it has limited use it has to be people like us who are interested in nostalgia and but it does have that one advantage of the capital cars will calm in the country it's likely the only one that is NHRA legal to make quarter-mile passes a lot of the other cars can only be static started where this car can actually run down the track so that's the the real appeal to it and that there was a lot of thought that went into doing that when we bought the car back where would you see this car would you you ever see this being sold or put in abusing you ever anything at any time I've had offers from natural Hot Rod Association to put it in the museum out in Pomona and I suspect somewhere along the line I'll do that because it's a good friend of mine Mike Lewis who used to this family owns Maple Grove and he now works we worked for NHRA and that works he's a vice president of Schumacher racing and Mike came up he said yeah this car's a piece of history and a throwback to all of our heritage that were we all started from and so I suspect based upon those kind of comments from Mike as well as other people that I'll probably wind up putting in a museum somewhere down the line yeah when when we're done with with what we do right now so thank you so much for taking the time and hopefully we'll see you again real soon thank you you have stopped by owner out the track the next time [Music] visit our growing quare you can Commission our unique artwork enjoy the memories and the [Music]

Channel: Kirk Leidy

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Keywords: Car Show Clips, Kirk Leidy, 1934 Ford 5W Coupe, Fords, Nostalgia Racing, #134 AA/Fuel Coupe, Ted Brine, Joe Morrison, Bakersfield Raceway, Maple Grove Raceway, Keystone Racing, Drag Strip Riot, California Hot Rod Reunion, Glory Days of Drag Racing, 2017 Tuscarora Reunion

Id: FJp9ocOFTjY

Length: 11min 39sec (699 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 23 2016