Pick up dragster

1951 Ford F1 Drag Truck. This truck was mostly built in 2003. I finished it up last week. This truck has less than 100 miles on it since being rebulit. It is ready for the track or convert back to street. It comes with the original headlights. Clean Az title registered street. This truck is fast!



400 chevy small block built to 500 horsepower

Edelbrock 1407 750 cfm carb

1/2 inch aluminium fuel line from front to back 8 gal fuel cell

Weiand EXcelerator aluminum intake



Comp Cam
Electric waterpump drive
Turbo 350 3500 stall B&M Pro Stick Shifter
Ford 9 inch 4:56 gears
Holly electric fuel pump
High performance gear reduction starter
Mustang II suspension rack and pinion
Tilt front end (49' ford)
Tubbed short bed
Chopped
Full roll cage spec for 8 sec
Firewall molded set back 3in

Bien vu le traitement moderne de la calandre du F1.

Sinon, vu à Lurcy l'année dernière, ce bien beau p.u.

le ford 51 présenté par predicta était crème et rouge avant

It has a Diablo racing engine built by the Performance Factory in SoCal with less than 1000 miles on it, a hot cam, high compression pistons (must run 91 octane fuel), Holly 650 CFM double pump carburetor sitting atop a tunnel ram intake manifold. Ignition is a custom-built Roberts electronic flamethrower.


The front suspension is a 60 Camaro clip with power steering and disk brakes. It has a narrowed Chevy rear end with 273 ring and pinion for the highway and comes with a set of 488's for the 1/8 mil strip.


It has Lokar gear shift and parking brake levers. On the driver side there are hand actuated exhaust cutouts handles for the times when you must be heard.


The surface rust you see is truly a Hollywood cosmetic touch. The body is rust free and strong. Tires are Mickey Thompson Sportsman all around.


She squeaks and creates a bit but she really loves to run. I have run her on many long distance runs up and down the Southern California area to various shows and she has never missed a lick.


I'm strictly the car show type so I have never run her in competition.

Bam! Direct from the glory days of drag-racing exhibitionists comes this recreation of the wheelstanding Back-Up Pickup. We first brought this to you in a news item when the truck was under construction, and now Dave Shuten at Galpin Auto Sports has the project complete and on display at the 2013 SEMA Show. He cranked out the complete buildup in 12 weeks, but now will be slowed down repairing a gack in the front corner of the truck by the delivery van that shipped it to Las Vegas. At the show, we had the chance to hang out with builder Shuten and with Ed Justice Jr., whose company Justice Bros. was a major sponsor of the truck when it was new. So was Galpin Ford, from 1969 to 1971, hence the connection to Galpin Auto Sports.

 

The Back-Up Pickup was a 1965 Ford Econoline truck that was owned and driven by Dick Harding and sometimes driven by George Tuers in the late ’60s and early ’70s. The gag was that the body was backward on the chassis, so the truck would be driven onto the dragstrip cab-first, then it would turn around, stage at the Treee with the bed-end pointing down the track, then launch the supposed rear tires in the air and carry ‘em to the quarter-mile. It represented the type of showmanship virtually unseen in today’s racing world—the kind that inspired a bunch of us current 40-and 50-somethings to get amped about cars and drag racing in the first place. The truck ran 9.49 at 138 mph on the back/front wheels. How’s that make you feel about your car’s performance on all fours?

 

The all-new BUPU is stunning, as are all of Shuten’s creations and recreations (think if the Iron Orchid ’34 Ford that’s been making the rounds in every car publication worldwide). The truck is accurate down to the vintage, mismatched gauges in the dash—small details that were sussed out using vintage photos from HOT ROD. We presumed the paint work was way beyond anything that was done in the late ’60s, but Justice swore to us that the original was just as detailed. Then and now, the BUPU is powered by a stack-injected 427 Ford, and while the original was estimated to make around 500 horsepower, the 14.5:1-compression, alky-burning modern iteration might crank as much as 950. Shuten admits he’s a little scared of the day when he’s ready to actually drive this thing as it was meant to be driven, which is on two wheels. We will be there that day. No one can stop us.

 

In the meantime, check out the coolness.

back up pickup wheelstander dave shuten galpin auto sports justice brothers sema 2013011 650x460 imageIn the wheelstanding days, that Diest ‘chute up front (out back) was loaded with lead for helpful ballast. Ed Justice Jr. recalls, “thing was one of the easiest wheelstanders back then. He’d just tap the gas and it’d come right up. You could almost pick up the front end.” By which he means the rear end. The one with the bed. It gets confusing.

 



 

The paint work is retro-psycho-fantastic, just as it was when Bill Carter did the first car. Shuten when down to the small details, placing original old speed decals just as they were in vintage photos. That Fram sticker was the only one in his sizable personal collection.

 
 The 427ci FE Ford is so bitchin’.

 

The truck was steered with the wheel on the ground, and with the two steering-brake handles ahead of the shifter when in flight. The driver would have to hang his head out the side window to see while he was wheelstanding.

 

The engine dumps into a C6 automatic and is coupled directly to the rearend. Shuten tells us, “they had about 80 different rear axles in the thing while it was running. I just went with the 9-inch, but converted it to the full floater.”

 

That’s Ed Justice Jr. on the left (who shot the color photos on the sign board when he was a teen in the ’60s) and builder Dave Shuten on the right. We’re huge fans of his work.

 



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