Sounds like you had some fun back then.
When we were building cars, we built mostly back-halved cars for the street and the track. My buddy worked for Romeo Palimedes of jet car fame for a number of years, and then got burned out. He worked for a bank as a maintenance man and started fooling around on the side doing some small jobs. We decided to get some equipment and started doing cars as a side job, and it sorta snowballed. The biggest car that we did together was a Jet Funny Car for Roger Gustin when he was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble. Between the car and turning an empty semi-trailer into a car hauler, the "after hours" job turned into another full time job.
He's using the in-line 6-cyl Bimmer motor as the powerplant, although he's shoving more air thru it with the turbo.
