One of the original freaks was Bill Everett’s “Half-Breed” 1962 Plymouth. Well, at least the back half is ’62 Plymouth. It ran in B/Gas with an injected 413 wedge. In the mid-1960s Bill got drafted, and friend Leroy “Doc” Hales started racing it. After more power and less weight, a Keith Black Hemi replaced the wedge, and a factory aluminum front end from a 1965 Dodge replaced the heavier stock 1962 Plymouth front. With the two dissimilar halves jointed, it was christened the appropriate “Half-Breed.” Hales says it was a heap, and he soon traded the Hemi for a fiberglass Firebird for his “New Breed” Funny Car. That gave way to his Cougar Funny Car called “Wild Breed.” Hales eventually went on to receive a medical degree, and became one member of NHRA’s Safety Safari in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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