More Beech Ridge Cars from the mid to late 60's.
This one seems particularly weird due to long wheelbase and strange slant to the cowl. Racers would try most anyting to see if it worked better than the status quo.
bridge6 by
Nathan Pitts, on Flickr
I think this one is pretty easy to see what it was built from.
bridge8 by
Nathan Pitts, on Flickr
Pretty car. Is that a Buick motor?
bridge12 by
Nathan Pitts, on Flickr
So what were they built from?
Many of these early mods had extensive work done to the body sheetmetal. Back then all we had for welders were the old stick electric welder and an acetylene torch. No MIG, no TIG. Sheet metal is definitely NOT easy to weld with the torch without it warping. Not an easy job to take several inches out of the center of a 37 Chevy coupe and weld the pieces together again. David B does some beautiful model work on this kind of alteration. But the original metal bodies are a lot heavier and harder to move around and hold in position. Those guys were magicians in many ways because of their ability to modify these cars beyond belief sometimes. There were tons of originality in most of these cars and, in this day and age of chassis and car builder specialists, many of the cars look the same. I lost my taste for NASCAR because you can't tell one car from another, plus it now is a big money corporate operation with the little guy having no chance to even get on the track. My heart is still with what it was several decades ago.
Nathan