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Old Feb 8, 2008 | 03:22 PM
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Anybody here ever owned one?

I keep going back and forth from building a doorslammer to one of these.
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Yep, I did, 177" wheel base, small block Chevy

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Scott Weney / S&W Race Cars has been building new F.E.D. for a few years that meet current safety-specs.


http://www.swracecars.com/corp/nostalgia_dragster.asp
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Originally Posted by Glensgages
Scott Weney / S&W Race Cars has been building new F.E.D. for a few years that meet current safety-specs.


http://www.swracecars.com/corp/nostalgia_dragster.asp
Cool link. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Corvette Chris
Cool link. Thanks.
Weney and his staff build really nice pipe, and you'll 'pay' for the quality they put into their cars, but they are top-rate craftsmen & people:
when I had my '94 R.E.D. built there, I'd ordered the small 5" x 5" U.S. Navy wheels & tires (at a time when everybody was moving-away from them ), but Weney had made the removable from A-arms for the 17"-tall wheels, and already had them Jet-Hot'd.....
when the car was a week late being delivered due to fabricating & coating the proper A-arms, he threw-in the extra A-arms at no-charge, and a boxful of T-shirts, to-boot!


Although I spent very-little time with the car
(fogging-up the visor by 500' on every run at-night was ),
it's 2nd owner won a Track Championship with it, several races and went 7.7x @ 173-ish, the 3rd owner won 2 more Track Championships and dozens of races, and last year, under it's 4th owner, it won twice again, at the ripe ol' age of 13+ years-old.
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