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    Little before my time but I remember my uncle talking about chargin Charley with a mid engine late model in the early 80s. Does anyone remember if he had any success in the mid engine car? I remember when I first started going racing that if you weren't in a wedge car you weren't winning but have no memory of the mid engine ride he designed. Anyone with info, I'd appreciate some history.

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    Man I'm sorry but, that's one ugly ride.

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    That thing was a land yacht. Even though it is indeed ugly....man that thing is bad. I seen it a few years ago at the north south when they recreated it. I was amazed at how big it was.

    Anyone know how muchnit weighed?

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    I was really curious about how the car performed on the track? Couldn't have been a world beater but does anyone know if he ever won any races with this design? I did a little research and all I could figure out is that the chassis was more than likely a bullit chassis. That's all I got

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    Reminds me of these. I remember when they they used to televise these races on TNN (Spike channel now) back in the day. Can't remember if it was friday nights or saturday nights.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xfNgYEAZRNU

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    The original car is in Minnesota, owner of one of the dirt tracks up there has possession of it. It was recently on a Facebook post along with a lot of the history of it. There were two cars built like this. I will try to find the post on it.

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    It seems like Loy Allen Jr was in the other one ?

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    20/20 Racing history on Facebook, or search type: Swartz mid engine, Pretty cool piece of racing history. I would love to drive that thing.

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    It was seriously fast, it was the car that made Wedge cars Illegal, the straw that broke the camels back.

    The story was told to me was, Charlie had a driveshaft let go on him in a normal Wedge, and i think he got injured. Anyway, pissed him off and him and Ray Callahan of Bullet Chassis set out to design something safer and came up with this.

    Just say no...

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    If made legal MR race cars would dominate, easily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nuff said View Post
    It seems like Loy Allen Jr was in the other one ?
    Yes he was.
    Up in the air who my next “favorite” driver is. Really losing hope on Bloomer getting anywhere back to “normal”.

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    They had that car at this passed world finals. I didnt get to see it run as i was in the pits as they were backing it in there spot.
    THE REAL SLIDING SIDEWAYS!

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    Charley said how he liked how he could dive in deeper on the car in front because you could see better sitting up front like that.

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