Jim Lytle’s Allison engine-powered 1934 Ford sedan from 1963. One of its last showings with its original Ford body, Lytle was working on a lift-off fiberglass body to replace it. Reaching speeds of over 147mph at high-10-second squirts with the world’s first 4-disc clutch, the original body was getting torn up from the air pressure building up at those speeds. Blown-off doors and hoods were becoming common, necessitating a solution. Lytle chose a Funny Car-style lift off body chopped an additional six-inches from its already six-inch chop that was used as a mold. Lytle would now pilot the sedan from the rear with his head located above the top. Within a few weeks of running the new body Lytle was seeing low 9-second runs at over 163mph.
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