65 Barracuda AWB Funny Car

tinman2 said
View attachment 1716028032Back in the mid 70s, my drag car builder wouldn't use a spool for safety reasons. My car once broke a Strange axle on the splined end when I dropped the clutch. The car just lurched forward a little and that was it. I saw a prostock car running a spool break an axle and the other tire pushed the car in a hard left crashing into the gaurd rail.

Yep that is what happened to my brothers Vega, He was going to put it back on the street and put his wide Mickeys back on it, while playing around in front of his shop one of the tires went flat, it hooked hard right and drove into a bank and rolled over bending the car up good, spools are bad for the street .