[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by earntaz

I seem to remember an article in Hot Rod magazine (eons ago) that featured this "street driven" rail. Supposedly it was street legal, etc. TAZ

Here it is:

“Dragsters for the Street” was the big cover blurb on the Mar. 1968 issue of Car Craft. Bill Fredericks, owner of a meat market in SoCal’s San Fernando Valley, built that issue’s cover car. Business was good and allowed him to spend leisure time feeding his fascination for speed. Five years after a fruitless adventure with a radical jet car at Bonneville, Fredericks was again testing the limits of speed—and insurance coverage—with his 427 Ford SOHC-powered slingshot transmogrified for street cruising. Highlighting the crimson livery and chrome was a hand-carved and -polished walnut dash and steering wheel. But CC focuses on the unique technical bits. If you look closely, you’ll find all the necessities for a “100-percent legal” street car designed by Fredericks: a modified Corvette swing-axle suspension out back and twin supine-mounted radiators under the cab. Coolant is plumbed through the frame. Slicks added excitement to the photo shoot, but the car normally ran Wide Ovals. For all his other design achievements, the CC story credits Fredericks’ superior front suspension for making the rail roadworthy. As he gets fueled at the local Standard station in Northridge (with regular??), it looks like a real-life cousin to Granpa Munster’s “Drag-U-La.” You’re not likely to see anything like this on those streets today—or those gas prices, either (27.9, 30.9, and 39.9 cents per gallon).