Ron shrugged off a Stang, smeared it with car wax and poured fiberglass over the whole caboodle. They took a brand new car and made a plug out of it! From the plug a mold was made and in that a fiberglass body weighing 200 pounds was baked. (Picture from the body’s renovation)
In the middle of that war Ron Pellegrini bought a Street Altered built by Dennison, Arlasky & Knox. He threw the body and took the tubular frame and power train from it. It saved a lot of time. It was just that the frame’s wheelbase was a full 11 inches shorter than the Mustang.
The body was sawed off in the middle of the door, straight across the roof and cut short 16 inch. The rear end was moved forward 7 inch on the frame and the front was extended 12 inch. (Picture from the body’s renovation)
The thin, flapping shell now fitted over the wheels. Between them sat a 392 Hemi with a 6:71 blower and a Hillborn Injection. From
nothing to a complete car with opening doors in three weeks.
It had become the month of May 1965. A sleepless Ron Pellegrini felt the push car
encounter him in the butt. Starter motor and cooling system make pounds so that was deleted. Decals and names had not been done at this point.
The gear box consisted of a LaSalle manual cleaned out so that just the fourth gear remained. He released the clutch and the engine awoke by taking the rpm:s to a raging 9.200 before it rattled down. The gas tank held three gallons of petrol with 30% nitro. He now had less than four