eBay Find: Not Your Typical Supercharged ’34 Ford Altered

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We’re admitted suckers for something that’s just a wee bit outside the box, and especially so when the fit, finish, and quality is on-par with any of the finest machinery drag racing. By that, we mean not something cobbled together in a garage over a six-pack that looks somewhat sketchy. And this ’34 Altered, well, it’s the former, to a tee.

$_57-5This piece, discovered on eBay for an inviting price of $25,000, has the look and feel of your every-day classic, road-going street rod, but is in fact anything but. Rather, it’s blended the concept of an Altered — at least what we generally consider to be an Altered — and blended it with the street rod styling. But underneath, it’s all race car.

The owner tabbed Mike Spitzer and his team at Spitzer Race Cars in Indianapolis to construct an Altered-style chassis, measuring 125-inch wheelbase, or the same length as a Funny Car, and dropped a body on it. But rather than climb through the roof or over the dashboard like your run-of-the-mill Altered, this one has it’s OEM-style, swing out doors for entry.

The chassis is legit from front to rear, with a 4-link and coilover rear suspension with an anti-roll bar installed, chromoly wheelie bars, dual-disc rear brakes, with separate hand and foot-operated braking systems from Aerospace Components.

$_57-6For power, a 532 cubic inch big-block with a full roller cam from Comp, aluminum Ford SCJ heads, an Eagle crank, Mahle pistons, and a Blue Thunder intake manifold rest between the pipe. The centerpiece is a Hampton 8-71 polished supercharger with a bird catcher on top. A set of Funny Car-style zoomie headers also finish it off. The horsepower is transferred back through a race-prepped Ford C6 transmission and a torque converter from Dynamic Converters to a 9-inch with 3.90 gears.

Per the seller, the car has only touched a race track six times — all for shakedown and tuning purposes. What it’ll run is anyone’s guess, but the chassis is built to certify down to 6.00-seconds, so regardless of what it runs, it stands to go quicker. One way or the other, we’re diggin’ it, and if we had $25,000 to burn, we’d be out turning heads in this bad boy.

About the author

Andrew Wolf

Andrew has been involved in motorsports from a very young age. Over the years, he has photographed several major auto racing events, sports, news journalism, portraiture, and everything in between. After working with the Power Automedia staff for some time on a freelance basis, Andrew joined the team in 2010.
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