The ultimate "Barn Find"

[ProNitro Pete]

I'm In !
your bid........

 

[Bullard Anderson]

geez...I'd give me right (lug) nut to JUST have a piece of an ol' Capps BRUT body. if i were this cat....i'd make her street legal.

 

[Nunz]

It is a cool piece of history, it's also the body that most will credit with starting the downfall of recognizable FC bodies.

 

[Rajunz]

Okay, how about this piece of history, another "Barn Find"!

Jet Dragster

 

[Speed1288]

Wonder if my parents would be mad if i used my student loans to bid on this....

 

[ProNitro Pete]

Hawaiian Nostalgia FC

 

[n/a]

That is a pretty awesome find......
There were only 3 or 4 of them made and one of them burnt to the ground in Reading.

Jim Head had one.


Larry Fulton

 

[Just Paul]

Jim Head had one.


Larry Fulton

Yup.

I think KB had 3 made. One burnt, one he has still, and then this one.
Jim head would be 4.

 

[handsome]

head made his own. his was an oldsmobile. bernstein's was a buick. there were quite a few differences but both radically different

 

[Just Paul]

I just looked at some old photos, and yeah Heads was different. I always thought they were the same. Both could of been Olds/Buicks though. Or Hondas or anything else.

 

[ProNitro Pete]

Or Hondas or anything else.

ha-ha-ha, Negra Modelo on the Monitor......Honda's were still on 2 wheels back then .................Bad Paul!!

 

[mike]

 

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geez...I'd give me right (lug) nut to JUST have a piece of an ol' Capps BRUT body. if i were this cat....i'd make her street legal.

A superfan in SoCal has one in his personal collection! Looky, I say, looky heeah:

clicky tha linky for more info

Randy's drag racing museum

 

[Nitro Jim]

Jeez, that is some collection...

Lots of $$$ invested in that lot (probably without a great deal of return except for personal satisfaction)!

 

[Just Paul]

There was a BRUT FC body on Racing Junk awhile back. All the stickers were off but the paint was still there.

I'm pretty sure Terry Haddocks Stratus was once a Brut car too.

 

[Eracer]

It was ugly then and it's ugly now. Put it back in the barn!

It sure looked good in the winners circle

 

[vern]

Thanks for the picture.

 

[Bullard Anderson]

A superfan in SoCal has one in his personal collection! Looky, I say, looky heeah:

clicky tha linky for more info

Randy's drag racing museum

Paul you know how to cut me to the core!! I've often said that if I could have any car from any era, from any type of motorsport on display at my house it would be a Capps' Funny Car!!

 

[ricko999™]

Unbelievable...............the Batmobile! This thing deserves to be restored and put into a museum.

I for one would pay for a swing or two with a sledge hammer to that body which led the way to the downfall of funny car bodies having any realistic resemblance to the cars name plate.

 

[Just Paul]

I don't blame Dale Armstrong for a second when it came to that body. There were no real rules so to speak of, so every year he did a little more 'till they told him to quit. The wind tunnel tested 84 Tempo came out with the lips and turned in fenders, sealed windows etc. Then came the 85-86 tempo with more of the above and the 40" overhang, vortex generators and rear window louvers, then on to the 87 body.

It's hard to look at KB's 83 Mercury LN7 and think just 4 years later they would be running that Buick body.


The time of change for me, was the early/mid 90's. The Daytona/Avnegers were ok, The Cutlass (Lumina) was ok, the 93-98 Firebirds were OK, as well as the early Force/Winston/Smokin Joes/Fuelish Pleasure style Mustangs. It got a little carried away after that, but I don't mind it as much as some.