UFO Charger drag car.

[Ghoste]

Anyone ever hear of a drag car campaigned under the name "UFO"?  It's a 68 or 69 Charger and I saw it on a dvd somebody loaned me of old 8mm footage from Windsor Dragway years ago.  It looks from the clip as though it could be a flopper but I'm not certain of that.  I tried Google and turned up nothing.  I also tried grabbing a screen shot but I can't seem to master that skill in even the slightest of ways.

[UFO]

Yup, Have a magazine feature with it as well.

[Ghoste]

Same lettering but different body; or at least a different front end.  The one in the clip doesn't have the nosecone.  Anyway, who campaigned that car?

[UFO]

How's this?
I think same car just different time line.

[Ghoste]

Not sure, it defintiely has the lettering seen in your other pics.  Damnit I wish I could figure out how to work this stupid screenshot thing. 

[UFO]

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[pettyfan43]

I don't think the car had that name until the Daytona nose was added.

[tan top]

   intresting charger ...chassis looks more like some kind of dune buggy 

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Brian (UFO) has all the cool stuff

[Ghoste]

I don't think the car had that name until the Daytona nose was added.

If I could grab a frame and post it I cold quickly change your mind about that.  The B&W article looks to be the congfiguration in this video and with Detroit being across the river from Windsor it makes sense that they'd run the car there.

[UFO]

Ghoste your correct the name is on the car before the nose cone deal.I am sure I have a b+w story on the car with just the name-no striping or other decals-kinda looks like gelcoat.Probably during the cars build up.

[unholymother]

I have seen pics of this car PRE nose cone and it defiitely was letterdd UFO. In that HOT ROD magazine hemi special they did summmer of 2007 they had a shot of this car in it too, on the grille ( psuedo grille) it said something about the "U.S. Air Farce"
  I have thought a recreation of this would be cool , though i hear this car is being re-stored right now by somebody.
   I think Landys charger was neater though, and I think Gene Snow ran one too.
  neal

[UFO]

Looks like they used the "ufo" name before the charger flopper.

[Mike DC]

Interesting that the car's body retains true stock dimensions.  Most 2nd-gen Charger floppers are the heavily distorted ones.