The Mullet Machine Does A Wheelie

Occurred on August 8, 2023 / Aurora, Illinois, USA

: "1967 Chevy G10 V90 with a 545 big block Ford, TH425 transmission out of an Oldsmobile tornado and a Ford 9" rear end offset and facing backwards. The Mullet Machine Story as told by the owner, Goddard Wagner, my nephew-in-law: I purchased it in 2004 when I was 21 years old and had a wicked mullet at the time. The van was sky blue and on the way home to Illinois from Colorado. We were trying to figure out a name for her and my cousin looked over at me and said, 'The Mullet Machine' and it stuck. Bone stoke when purchased with 250 inline 6 and three on the tree, drove it like that for a couple of months then put an Olds 455 in the dog house which made it an awesome burn-out machine. In October 2004, we went to the Halloween Classic at Norwalk, Ohio and they had a wheel stand competition. While watching that I decided I wanted to build one of those but street legal so I did. In 2005, I took it to the track for the first time at Union Grove and pulled a 385’ wheelie first time out. Had fun with it like that but kept blowing head gaskets due to too much nitrous. Then in 2012, I blew the motor and broke the trans giving rides down our street and didn’t have the money to rebuild so it went into outdoor storage for 8 years, which was a mistake. Once I got around to getting back into it she was rough. My father-in-law is a big Ford guy and gave me a 466 Ford short block he used to race with in his Pinto so we adapted it to the Cadillac TH325 trans and went to town rebuilding. Then after breaking the TH325 6 times in one year and blowing the 466 up we built a 545 BBF and upgraded to a TH425 has turned into what you see today. Its longest wheelie was 1200' at Byron Dragway."