Not every Freak Show Friday need be freakishly bad, or ugly. This is George Reese’s “Long and Lean I” 1964 Corvette from 1967. Running in the supercharged class of Experimental Stock or XS, this was an early class of what became Funny Cars. Basically a stretched and narrowed Corvette body jammed onto a dragster chassis, it was actually the first of two Long and Lean racecars from Reese. Run out of his George’s Corvette Shop in Hyattsville, Maryland, the Vette ran in the low-8s at Cecil County, powered by a 301ci-supercharged Chevy on nitro. There were a number of these conversions of dragsters into Funny Cars, as there were from Fuel Altereds. Most all ran on the match race circuit, which the Long and Lean I was a favorite on the east coast.
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