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John E. Maneth's 77, Great Bend, KS

 


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LUV: 1977 Strip
Name: John E. Maneth
Location: Great Bend, Ks, USA
Forum Name: luv383
Notes: This started out as buying a lil truck, putting a big motor in it, and driving it on the street. I couldnt put very large tires under the fenderwells, so a friend suggested narrowing the frame. As this was being done, he also suggested i get the rearend narrowed,( of course he knew someone who could do all this, lol).I wanted to use the leaf spring suspension to still be able to drive on the street. After much head scratching, and a lil cussing, we figured out the suspension wasnt going to work. A friend was re-building his race car, and building a new ladder bar set-up, so we found a "new" rear end set-up.After my wife saw a racecar roll, and crash, she decided i needed a rollcage.(what a thoughtful wife). I now have a narrowed ford 9 inch rearend with 4.86 gears in the back. It is tubbed, and sheeted in the back, the battery has been moved to the back, rollcage installed, and ready to go. With a new Chevy 383 engine, and a powerglide transmission with 5500 stall converter and transbrake, on pump gas, i'm running a best of 11.24, at 118 mph in the quarter mile. Its been a 7 year project, and it will never be completed, lol. Plans are for sheeting the back to enclose the fuel cell and battery, and to paint the truck bright yellow, with teal and purple stripes.i hope everyone has a project like this, and can look back over the years, and think to themselves ,,,,,, What The Hell Was I Thinking ??!! LOL.