1930 Model A Drop Tank

This 1930 Model A Drop Tank car known as the “Bomb”.  The Bomb is a street legal Salt Flats race car that began life as a 1930 Model A coupe.  The conversion was completed in 2011 by Michael Bachman of Ogden, Utah.  Bachman recalls: "I lived by the Bonneville Salt Flats and had always been interested in vintage racers. I was at the dump and found an old cast aluminum grill. I hung it up in my garage and it remained there for about 32 years until I decided to build a race car and started with the grill I found and worked backwards”.  The car started with the 1930 Model A onto which a late model Ford rear end was installed together with a Mustang front end.  The drive train was replaced with a 1950 Ford flat head tri-power 4 cylinder with headers and glass pack mufflers and a three-speed gearbox.  The wheels were converted to 50’s styled Ford rims with white wall radial tires and baby moon caps.  Atop the frame, a body frame was constructed and covered with a modified aluminum aircraft drop.  Seating was replaced with an aluminum bomber cockpit seat and four-point racing seat belts.  The car made its maiden Salt Flats run in 2017 where the conditions were not ideal but still the Bomb clocked a  96 mph.