Coolest or Oddest Combo.....

bill dedman · 01-28-2009, 06:41 AM

This thread started out being about Stock and Super Stock cars, and so I am slightly off-topic (what else is new?), but, I wonder of anyone else here remembers Darrell Vittone's Fiat Abarth coupe that he shoe-horned the engine out of his VW Beetle Gasser (the original EMPI "Inch Pincher") into, and ran as a Gasser until (I think) NHRA make him quit???

It ws TINY!!!! Had to be the smallest drag car I ever saw...
He didn't have to worry about aerodynamics because it didn't have any frontal area....

I think he ran in sometime around 1968 or '69.

Weird, for sure...

Bill

01-28-2009, 06:41 AM	#22
bill dedman VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 1,739 Likes: 0 Liked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Coolest or Oddest Combo..... This thread started out being about Stock and Super Stock cars, and so I am slightly off-topic (what else is new?), but, I wonder of anyone else here remembers Darrell Vittone's Fiat Abarth coupe that he shoe-horned the engine out of his VW Beetle Gasser (the original EMPI "Inch Pincher") into, and ran as a Gasser until (I think) NHRA make him quit??? It ws TINY!!!! Had to be the smallest drag car I ever saw... He didn't have to worry about aerodynamics because it didn't have any frontal area.... I think he ran in sometime around 1968 or '69. Weird, for sure... Bill __________________ Bill