BILL MAVERICK GOLDEN - LITTLE RED WAGON ヘミエンジンとモパー ＯＨＶ＋半球状燃焼室は、第二次大戦中に航空機用エンジン向けに開発された技術だったが、クライスラーは、1951年式高性能モデルのV8エンジンに採用する。 第一世代ヘミエンジンの名称は、「ヘミ」ではなく、「ファイアパワー」「ファイアドーム」「レッドラム」と呼ばれた。 第一世代ヘミは、コスト高を理由に1959年に製造が中止される。 マッスルカーの流行の中、1964年にヘミは復活する。426cui（7.0L）で、プリムス・ベルヴェデアのレース・バージョンに採用された。復活当初は競技用のみ提供された。

1964 Plymouth Super Stock

For 1965 only, Dodge also sold only 101 units of a modified wheelbase version of the base Coronet two-door sedan and 440 hardtop used for NHRA drag racing. The model known as A990 came with a racing version of the 426 Hemi engine. The car A990 was stripped of all features and included base bucket seats from Dodge's truck-van line of vehicles. The altered wheelbase eventually became commonly known as Funny Cars because of their stretched front clips. Front seat belts and padded dash were standard

1965 Dodge Coronet 426 Fuel Injected Hemi

The mighty 426 Hemi engine became available to the mass market in 1966, but was released for “off road” use only in 1964 and 1965 in Dodge and Plymouth intermediate models. Here, Richard Petty’s Daytona winning 1966 Belvedere Plymouth is showcased an advertisement. (Ad compliments of Chrysler Corporation) 市販はされなかったが、NASCARへ参加するレギュレーションを満たすために、「ストリート・ヘミ」と呼ばれる市販バージョンを、ダッジ・コロネットやプリムス・ベルヴェデアに搭載して販売した。 厳しくなる排気ガス規制やオイルショックのあおりを受け、1971年モデルを最後に再び姿を消すこととなる

ホットロッドの世界では一つのイコンとしても認知されている Little Red Wagon Article Included here is one of the first magazine articles published that featured the Little Red Wagon. What's interesting about this article is that it makes no mention of the wheelstanding (because it hadn't happened yet) and it says nothing about Bill "The Maverick" Golden. At the point in time when this article was written, Chrysler was still playing with this truck before releasing it to an outside party (Bill "The Maverick" Golden) for campaigning on the drag race circuit. From Cars, The Automotive Magazine, February `65 article, pages 25-28. Author not listed. All images from article unless otherwise specified. The wildly enthusiastic thousands who poured into Cecil County Dragoway, Bayview, Maryland, to witness CARS Magazine's All-Star Super/Stock Invitational meet were trreated to a big bonus. For Dodge Division of Chrysler Corporation chose our meet to introduce its latest drag racing conversation piece, which it calls the "Little Red Wagon." This new rip snorter is packaged in a 90-inch wheelbase Dodge A-100 compact pickup that looks innocuous enough from a distance. But get close enough to give it a good once-over and you get the distinct impression that this compact isn't what it looked to be! The primary reason for this is a rear mounted 426 cu. In. Hemi Charger engine located just behind the snub-nosed cab, just in front of the rear wheels. To accommodate the big V8, a 33 1/2 -inch wide by 19-inch deep hole was carved out of the rear of the cab and a similarly sized hole was torched into the floor of the pickup bed. Thus, part of the mill extends forward into the cab right behind the hinged seats, putting engine location 20 inches behind that of a stock A-100 mill with a resultant weight distribution of 48 percent front, 52 percent rear, against the stock A-100's 58/42 figures. Because the truck is short and the Hemi is big, the rear wheels are driven directly via a universal joint and coupling between the rear end and Hemi-Charger Torqueflite. Jim Schaeffer, who has co-owned a number of `29 BB/A roadsters, and John Collier, a relative newcomer to drag racing, built this unique go getter. Then they turned the final honing procedures over to Dick Branstner and Roger Lindamood, current NHRA National champs with their "Color Me Gone" Dodge. To Beef up the unibody truck, Schaffer and Collier put together a 75 inch long, 36 inch wide subframe to house engine, transmission, and rear axle. Welded steel tubing three inches deep by two inches wide and having .110 inch wall thickness was used. Engine mounts and transmission support members measure 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 inches. With this subframe arrangement the entire drivetrain may be easily slipped in and out for maintenance. Standard 13 inch wheels gave way to 15-inchers carrying 7.10 X 15 shoes up front and 10 X 15 M&H slicks at the rear. About an inch of body metal along the bottom of each rear wheel well and the 1/4 -inch flanges rimming the wells were bent back to accommodate the big slicks. Stock binders are supplemented by a 16-foot Deist ring slot chute. To compensate for the 200-pound weight difference between a Hemi and the A-100's standard 101 horsepower Six, Schaeffer and Collier put the "Little Red Wagon" on a strict diet. Off came the front bumper and brackets, the heater, dash panel, windshield wipers and washers, all wiring but for ignition, the hand brake, horns, 12 pounds of door glass and seven pounds of rear cab glass (replaced by plexi), mufflers and pipes, one seat, the stock engine cover, all interior trim, the spare wheel and tire and about 75 pounds worth of body sealer and rubber door sealing. Rear springs were abandoned in favor of an unsprung, solidly-mounted axle. Result was a reduction from 2,886 pounds to a ready-to-race weight of 2,671 pounds. Fiberglass doors on order should chop another 30 pounds off the front end, and the 30 pound battery was relocated to the right rear corner of the bed. When run for the first time at the CARS meet, the Wagon was powered by a right-out-of-the-crate Hemi without the benefit of blueprinting, etc. Yet it turned consistently in the mid-11's at close to 120 mph. Ramcharger Jim Thornton made one run in the little bomb and dialed his way to a very creditable 11.2-second ET. As the Wagon was due for a patented Ramcharger's race-readying right after its appearance at our Cecil County Dragoway get-together, there's no doubt that it will be turning in the mid-10s with terminal speeds in the 130 mph bracket by the time you read this, making "Little Red Wagon" quite a remarkable piece of engineering innovation! Little Red Wagon Modified Classic 1965 Dodge Truck Original year: 1966 Company: IMC Scale: 1/25 Designer: Bill Golden The Little Red Wagon made its first public appearance early in '65. It was an instant hit with drag racing fans and before long the "world's fastest truck" was scheduled in at major strips all across the country. Owner-driver Bill "Maverick" Golden and the Wagon soon found themselves before the TV cameras filming Dodge truck commercials. Magazine photographers risked their lives to get dramatic shots of the Wagon doing its famous wheelies. Before the season was over Maverick and the Little Red Wagon were the most talked about combination in drag racing. As 1966 rolled around those who missed the Wagon on its first tour asked for a rerun, and so Maverick found himself with another solid year of bookings. Little Red Wagon Vehicle A famous Dodge A-100 pickup truck, originally built and driven by Bill "Maverick" Golden. In 1965 at Lion's Drag Strip, Bill Golden and the Little Red Wagon introduced the drag racing world to wheelstanding. The truck was scheduled to make an exhibition run down the track. Seeing a pickup truck about to race by itself, many fans left their seats. Instead of making a speed run down the track, the Bill Golden revved the engine and launched the front end ten feet into the air. The truck was traveling 80 miles per hour before the wheels came back down. After doing several more wheelstands, the fans rushed the track to surround the truck. Dodge A100 Truck & Van Directory - Produced from 1964 to 1970, the A100 line of trucks and vans were sold under the Dodge and Fargo brands. Both featured a "cab forward" design with a flat nose and the engine placed between the front seats. The driver and passenger rode above the front axle. The A108 was also available from 1967 to 1970 with a longer wheelbase. Dodge A-100 - one of the models of cars manufactured by Dodge. Dodge A-100 received many good reviews of car owners for their consumer qualities. On this page we present you the most successful photo gallery of Dodge A-100 and wish you a pleasant viewing experience. Feature Article from Hemmings Motor News September, 2009 - Jim Donnelly If the pony car was a synonym for the soaring Sixties, what about the pony truck? Seriously, these cab-over-engine trucks that were popular in that time seem to fit the bill: smallish trucks and vans with unconventional, by American practice of the time, drivetrain positioning. Ford and General Motors both had them, the second case forming the Corvair truck line. At Chrysler, though, these were ground-shifting commercial vehicles. Those who know rank them with the original Dodge Brothers truck of 1918 and the radical T300 Ram pickup of 1994 as the most important Chrysler trucks ever built. By world standards, light trucks with far-forward cabs weren't all that wonky in the early 1960s--witness Volkswagen and Commer overseas, to name just two. Dodge trailed Ford and Chevrolet in getting the very light trucks to market, rolling out the A100 lineup of pickups, cargo vans and Sportsman passenger wagons in February 1964. In Canada, Chrysler introduced a similar Fargo-badged series of trucks at the same time, to be sold via that country's Chrysler-Plymouth retailers. The A100s were segment-leading vehicles long before that appellation was first coined. The biggest reason why, you could say, was engine selection. Initially, the A100 line offered two sizes of the Slant Six, either 170 or 225 cubic inches. Next, however, Chrysler added the 273-cu.in. OHV V-8 to the rigs' option list, beginning in 1965. Its displacement was expanded to 318 cubic inches in 1967. Either a three-speed manual or three-speed automatic was offered, the automatic called the LoadFlite and controlled by a dash-mounted shift lever. The engine choices gave the A100 and the long-er-wheelbase A108 that joined it in 1970 best-in-class gross-weight ratings of up to 5,100 pounds. Built through 1970, these were hugely popular trucks. Close to 90,000 A100s and A108s were sold in 1968 alone. Like many Chrysler products of similar vintage, they've demonstrated a lot of durability. Their technical variety and their historic importance make them eminently collectible. There's a guy who can speak authoritatively on that topic. His name is Brian Bowie; he lives in Harwood, Maryland, and he's founder of the A100 Truck and Van Association. He owns 13 of them, including a former C&P Telephone repair van with windows on one side, doors on the other. "Believe it or not, there are quite a few thousand of them still out there," he told us. "Right now, they're a very easy restoration for anyone to do. I've been into them for 30-plus years, and the only real problem is that their version of the 727 automatic has a very short tailshaft because of the engine's location. I sell a kit that changes the engine mounts and fixes that." Bowie is very clearly an A-1 source on A100 matters: Without prompting, he already knew that Hemmings Motor News has owned two such pickups. We asked him to quantify their affordability. He explained, "I know a guy who was selling a Fargo pickup in Texas, fully restored, for $14,000, and that was for a Fargo, not a Dodge. As it is, the pickups sell for twice as much as the vans." A-100ベースでナイトロ仕様のHEMIを搭載した改造無制限的なカテゴリーのドラッグマシンを作ったけど、高速時でも、ど〜してもフロントが浮いてしまうってんで、結果としてウイリーカーになったそうです。 そもそもA-100でそんなドラッグマシンを作る事自体もクレイジーなのに、結果ウイリーカーってのも常識ある大人のやる事ではありません。 これまた、トボケ面のA-100って所がなんともマッチしてるんですな！　 タイヤのサイズがパーフェックトで車高もギリでOK！　スッキリとしたイエローのボデ キャビンはA-100と共通のL-600/L-700シリーズ（こいつもキットでリリースされてます 　日本で言えば軽トラ的な車種ですよ！ 1967 Dodge Deora

This classic Little Red Wagon was reissued by Lindberg in 1993. The IMC Little Red Wagon kit came in 2 versions. The original kit was molded in gloss red (the Wagon's original color as it came off the assembly line.) In 1966, when Bill Golden changed the color to a darker metalflake red, IMC changed the color of the model plastic to suit. I think this is about the time the "unassembled" wording was added to the box. I suspect that, due to the unique 360 views on the box some people might believe it was toy and already assembled. Mr. Golden bought the truck from the Ramchargers race team. It was originally going to be a "go-fast" drag truck but due to its (obvious) inability to keep the front end down, they decided it didn't fit in with their program.

そして、90年代に入ってからのリリースはやはりダイキャスト！ 中でもコンスタントにバリエーション展開しているJohnny Lightningは日本でもポピュラー。 こちらは実在したウイリーカーのレプリカとしてリリースされましたが、日本ではこのダイキャストを通してウイリーカー自体の存在を知った人も多いのでは？ 1：64だけでもキャスティング が3種もあるため、バリエーションも多い。

　その対照的なのがHot Wheelsでもお馴染みの"DEORA"。 こっちは同じA-100をベースに未来のトラックをイメージしたコンセプトカー！ベースと仕上がりのギャップも含め、すばらしいの一言。　 それもそのはず、デザインは巨匠、ハリー・ブラッドレー先生です。 Harry Bradley designed Deora The Alexander Brothers' Deora '６６年、Ｄｏｄｇｅ　Ａ１００をベースに、初代ＨＷチーフデザイナーでもあった Ｈａｒｒｙ＝Ｂｒａｄｌｅｙ(ハリー＝ブラッドレイ)氏がデザインを手掛けて カスタマイズされたのが「Ｄｅｏｒａ」でした♪ 一体このずば抜けたデザインは一体コンセプトカーなのか、個人のカスタムカーなのか・・・ それは両方に当てはまるようです。 元々はアイデアから始まったカスタムカーでしたが、最終的にはコンセプトカーという 形にもなり、２年間の間１０００ドルの費用で作られてました。 まさに超希少車なのです。 そしてちょっと気になるサイドの黒いダクト、 これは実はマフラーの排気口なのです。 これがまた面白いのですが、この排気口は１９６２年型フォード・マスタングのｔ テールライト　ベゼルらしいです（笑） 言われてみればマスタングのテールに見えますよねｗ

Deora Show Car & Custom Camper Original year: 1966 Company: MPC-ERTL (Original from AMT) Scale: 1/25 Designer: The Alexander Brothers

Deora Debut Series : 1968 Hot Wheels Produced : 1968-1969, 1994-Present Designer : Harry Bradley Number : 6210 Description The Deora was part of the Original 16 in the 1968 Hot Wheels series. The die-cast was based on the 1964 Dodge Deora, a real concept pickup truck designed by Harry Bentley Bradley, (who by 1968 was working as Hot Wheels' own designer) and built by Larry and Mike Alexander. The Deora is noted for its two detachable plastic surfboards,one Red and the other Yellow and came with a tin collector's button. ↑　１００％　Ｈｏｔ　Ｗｈｅｅｌｓ　Ｄｅｏｒａ　 　　　　　　　　　　３５ｔｈ　Ａｎｎｉｖｅｒｓａｒｙ　Ｏｆ　Ｈｏｔ　Ｗｈｅｅｌｓ('０３) ＨＷ生誕３５周年を迎えた'０３年に、コレクティブル・ラインの「１００％」でリリースされた「Ｄｅｏｒａ」＆「Ｄｅｏｒａ　Ⅱ」の２台セット☆ 「Ｄｅｏｒａ」は'６８年のＨＷ誕生の際にリリースされたモデルの１台☆ Ｄｏｄｇｅ　Ａ-１００とゆートラックをベースに近未来的デザインのボディを纏った コンセプトカーとして実車が存在していました(^▽^)/ '６０年代末に造られたとは思えないボディスタイルは、ＨＷ立ち上げの為に採用された ＧＭ(ジェネラル・モータース)の元デザイン・スタッフにして当時のＨＷチーフ・デザイナーだったＨａｒｒｙ＝Ｂｒａｄｌｅｙ(ハリー＝ブラッドレイ)氏によるデザイン☆ そして「Ｄｅｏｒａ　Ⅱ」☆ '９８年のＨＷ生誕３０周年記念企画として、かつての人気キャストだった「デオラ」の コンセプトを受け継いだモデルのデザインが発表されました(^▽^)/ ＨＷデザイナーＮａｔｈａｎ＝Ｐｒｏｃｈ(ネイザン＝プロック)氏によるデザインは 所謂ＨＷオリジナルモデルだったのですが・・・なんとこの３５周年を記念して'０３年には「実車」を造っちゃった

MPCリリースの物で"CB FREAK"はデフォルメのシリーズとして先に出ていた"Zingers"（この時点ではパネルバンで人形は無し）を悪あがき的にアレンジした物。 いずれもA-100に拘らない人からも人気があってオリジンルはコレクターズアイテムとなってます。