Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Logghe dragster was constructed to not barrel down the quarter mile however for “cackling” automobile meets. That’s a singular and particular function, and it’ll require some novel considering on our half to determine what it is likely to be price.
With over 317,000 miles in its rear-view mirror, yesterday’s 2009 Mercedes-Benz E350 wagon actually takes the prize for sturdiness and stick-with-in-ness. At simply $5,900, it additionally received our vote, incomes a strong 69 % Nice Price final result.
Today being Friday the thirteenth—a notoriously unfortunate day based on sure cultural norms—we’d need to deal with the anticipated dangerous juju by stepping out of our consolation zone and taking a look at one thing method out of the unusual. I believe this 1967 Loogghe AA/FD dragster qualifies as each discomforting (the motive force does straddle the doubtless explosive differential) in addition to fairly wild.
First, although, simply what the hell is that this factor, and why would somebody construct a vintage-style front-engine dragster? According to the advert, the automobile, dubbed ‘Angel’s Flight,’ is “a recreation of a automobile my pal drove in ’67 with a terrific historical past in addition to the story of the donor automobile which had its personal nice historical past, racing into the ’80s.”
The construct was accomplished simply final September and is predicated on a classic tube chassis manufactured in 1967 by the Logghe Brothers’ Stamping Company in Detroit, Michigan. Atop that could be a NOS fiberglass physique by Kellison, into which has been wedged a 1957 Chrysler 392 Hemi. That’s completed with a de rigeuer Roots-style blower and Hilborn injection. The under-butt rear-end can be out of a classic Chrysler and is fitted on both finish with disc brakes. An ass-mounted drag chute is prepared for when these show not sufficient.
The end result just isn’t road authorized—and even highway succesful—nor would it not be monitor aggressive in something aside from classic exhibition occasions. Instead, the vendor says the automobile was constructed for cackling occasions. These are reveals the place classic racers are pulled out, dusted off, after which fired up so {that a} bunch of outdated guys in Jorts and tucked-in T-shirts can stand round and take heed to them idle and rev so they may benefit from the “cackle” of the unfettered exhaust. And sure, that’s completely a factor.
The automobile appears to suit the invoice, both for a static occasion or for giving the engine a smidge of train. The physique seems superbly completed in sweet apple purple gel coat with white and gold flake accents. Even the under-body is show-worthy, having been sprayed with bedliner for what the vendor claims is a “clear look.”
None of the advert’s photos present the automobile with both the blower belt or high-tension wires from magneto to plugs in place, so apparently it’s being offered with some meeting required. That’s minor stuff, and all of the heavy lifting of the automobile’s construct and the engine’s rebuild (professionally performed, based on the advert) have been accomplished.
As this isn’t a road automobile, mileage and title matter not. Per the vendor, it’s a “lovely piece of Automotive History and Automotive artwork.” At $31,000, they are saying, it may very well be had for the “value of an affordable Camaro.”
That’s a fairly particular comparability, and few of us would seemingly take into account a $31K Camaro significantly low-cost. That being stated, we now want to deal with the query of this dragster’s worth. What do you suppose? Is it price $31,000 in gentle of its meant function and match for that function? Or does that value go away you cackling with disdain?
You determine!
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