From the Clunkbucket northern California car shortening division comes this shrunken 1964 Plymouth Fury. This former b-body belongs to one Alan Rutter of Al’s Rapid Transit, and packs roughly 450 horsepower of big block Mopar for motivation. Alan picked the car up as a project, and got busy cutting and welding everything back together eight inches less long. The 440 engine sits two inches back from the stock location into the middle of the now 108″ wheelbase. Alan reports voluminous tire smoke from the right rear wheel in all three speeds of the automatic transmission after extensive daily road testing since getting the Fury together again. We predict a Sure-Grip getting swapped in in for the peg-leg open rear differential at a date in the near future.
If you’re in SoCal this weekend stop by and say hello to Alan and hundreds of other Moparnauts at the Spring Fling XXIII at Woodly Park in Van Nuys. A few more shrunken Mopars can be found at Moparts.
Alan rocks! I remember seeing that thing in parts in December, thinking, “how’s a 6’5″ guy going to fit in a shortened Fury”? Apparently, quite well. I wonder if KB rides shotgun with him?
Getting that character line to line up must’ve been non-trivial.
Very cool, though not quite short enough to be a life-size Penny Racer.
Awesome.
Tastes Great, Less Filling! 🙂
And very much in spirit with one of the clever “mods” (i.e. cheats) that legendary Smokey Yunick almost pulled off in stock car racing (Check out the famous “7/8-scale Chevrolet Chevelle” that he ALMOST got past tech inspection!)
So great. The builder of this Fury must be a neat guy.