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Originally Posted by pont406
Here's some pics of the Champion Automotive sponsored 1st gen Firebird Funny car. built by Duane Muelling, with help from Tom Nell, this car featured a sliding engine cradle that would let you move the motor/tranny to 3 different locations in the chassis, had 3 different length driveshafts for the swap! Hilborn injected pontiac power, it was a "freshly"built car at the article writing, but ran 162 MPH it's first run down the track! (No ET listed)
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Although not mainstream, there were many cars built like this, even into the mid-late 70's. The reason for moving the engine around was to "tune the chassis" for whatever track conditions you were dealing with.