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Mikey Brown
Deputy, IN.
It started as a dream in high school. I always wanted a front engine dragster. I bought a Te440 replica chassis from cornfeild customs and hung it in the rafters of my upholstery shop for a couple years and saved up all the parts. The engine is a 235 bone stock 57 Chevy 6 cylinder out of my first car. I always saved it with this plan in mind. It has a shorty powerglide and a narrowed ford 9 inch with a 4.11 gear. My buddy jason helped fab a lot of the brackets and sheet metal for it. It was really a blast from start to finish. I ran it the first time at the meltdown drags in Byron Illinois. And there I may have made the slowest passes there but I managed to win the non-conformist award. Not too many people expected a big bearded guy climb out of barbies dream dragster. Now it’s just a long list of bugs to work out and my dream dragster is done. I named it the seam ripper as I am an upholsterer by trade. I couldn’t be any happier with it. It’s been so much fun that a parts pile for the 292 straight 6 powered seam ripper 2 chute pack rail is already piling up.
