[Brian Baker]

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)

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.