I may be crazy......but I think a Superbird/Daytona style wing would look right at home on that Super Grabber.....
I actually did consider a Superbird style wing; something maybe a little smaller like from the Daytona Ram pickups; along those lines. I have also considered the side skirts too. In the mockup pic it's sitting higher off the ground than it will when actually completed. Note the wheels and tires are up on rollers. It will have air bags all around so when it's sitting, it will be as low as physically possible considering the wheel and tire sizes. Still, I've determined the front fender wells will have to be radiused from at least the body line down to allow the wheels to turn. The fronts are 20x8.5 with 275/45/20's and the rears are 22x9.5 with 315/45/22's. The wheels are American Torque Thrust M's with General Grabber UHP tires. The front frame rails and suspension is being fabbed up now. It is requiring a narrowed Mustang II-type suspension with a narrowed steering rack. I'll post pictures as it progresses. If anyone has access to any decent quick change rears like from circle trackers, let me know. I don't want to put a fortune into the rear end but I'd like to have a quickchange so I can switch the gears around for regular driving and high speed running at the Hot Rod Top Speed Challenge at Maxton, NC. My goal is to see 150mph-plus with a relatively mild small block and later go for 200mph with a hotter engine.
I like your idea too, but how about something like this They were built for long tracks like Talledega and Daytona, but what about the short tracks? That is where the Super Grabber would come in. Here is how I would build it; - Goodyear polyglas tires with either magnum 500's or trim rings. - Long C-stripe and hood stripe - Sport Mirrors, no scoops, nothing on the rear except a grabber spoiler - stock grabber-like interior - Boss 302 (if possible to aquire/fund) or maybe a Boss 351 (the Torino's used Boss 429's) And that would give you something aerodynamically efficient for NASCAR tracks that aren't Super Speedways. Here is some info. on the King Cobra's http://www.torinocobra.com/king_cobra.htm They were so slick that NASCAR banned them.
These cars are kind of what I based the SuperGrabber concept on. While most people were complaining that the factory Drag-N-Flys were ugly, I felt the Drag-N-Fly parts could be modified just slightly to appear more like these. If I were trying to do a phantom car, I would stay more stock looking, but I wanted to do an all out Pro Touring car with the huge wheels and tires, etc. I'm thinking about having a mold made to do one-piece fender/nose combos (a pro-front) so other people could do other versions. They will be really expensive though. I'm looking into carbon fiber for the SuperGrabber, and I plan to use a Maverick Man carbon fiber Grabber hood. The nose will be modified to work with a stock hood, whereas a factory Drag-N-Fly has to have the hood modified to work with the factory Drag-N-Fly nose.
Oh boy if you make this wee beastie is it ever gonna be cool, you could even sell a few as a custom made option for a Maverick owner who wants something different.
You could always copy the one this guy made. I think his front spoiler might be a tad bit too big though. Tail pipes are it too!!! Or this one might work too:
I posted this a while back but some of you probably haven't seen it. You guys need to go check out these cars. The Japanese have some really strange ideas. Just click "Cancel" for installing the language thing. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://tanetane92.web.infoseek.co.jp/052691.jpg&imgrefurl=http://tanetane92.web.infoseek.co.jp/20050116tas2.html&h=318&w=480&sz=33&tbnid=n7PQPT0UYBQRjM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=126&hl=en&start=8&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJAPANese%2BCAR%2BSHOW%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGWYA,GWYA:2005-30,GWYA:en%26sa%3DG
Yeah... I've, seen this... Not something you easily forget. What's with all the oil coolers hanging out the front of all these cars? I think some of the elements these cars have in common are radical enough that there has to be a reason they all did these things so similarly. Outside of this group of photos I haven't seen things like the crazy chin spoilers and exhaust, or the oil coolers. I'm thinking maybe this isn't a group of car enthusiasts but more like a fan club of some kind of horrible anime, manga or whatever that combines Volton, Speed Racer and Power Rangers and they all built things to mimic that. Whatever the case they're all very cartoonish. And what they did to that Fairlady Z is pretty much unforgivable. I don't care when I see s#!t cars desecrated, but that just wasn't called for.
ive seen something on youtube with people putting cardboard body kits (kids did it) and drove around in it lol
