WTF Friday: The More The Merrier

Feb 8, 2013

I’m sure by this point in time most of you are well aware of my automotive A.D.D. This ailment is the source of most of this sites content and lately it has pointed me towards blogs, forums, flickr groups, centred around over the top creations from the 60’s and 70’s.

I find that era of car modification incredibly interesting because back then people were not scared to do anything to anything. Case in point this hot wheels-esque, four motor, four wheel drive, ‘Mustang’ funny car.

Dubbed the Mach IV, this quad 351 Windsor powered behemoth was built by Gary Weckesser over the course of 8 short months simply because he could.

machiv_1 — The chassis is custom made of good old reliable 4130 chromoly

machiv_2 — The body is an altered fibreglass ’69 Mustang funny car shell

machiv_4 — Just looks so insane here, when I saw this photo I needed to find more

Each motor puts out about 250 horsepower a piece and sits back-to-back which required the two forward motors to run reverse ground cams. Somehow all this mechanical margic ran through a single clutch to all four wheels.

While the Mach IV was predominately used as a show car it could, and did, run the occasional 7 second quarter mile.

machiv_5 — A closer look at the insane motor configuration

machiv_model — It also became a model at some point

The car was terribly expensive to run (surprise surprise) and eventually Gary had to mothball it, however it appears he never got rid of it as it pops up at shows from time to time.

There’s a bunch of video of it sitting around on YouTube but here are some of it kind of running sans fibreglass body.