ACME Mondello Matsubara

MODEL IS MINT, BOX IS DAMAGED
Regular Retail Price $139.99

Features Include:
• Removable Body
• Posable Steering
• Real Rubber Tires
• Detailed Interior
• Plumbed and Wired Blown Engine
• Real Cloth Parachute Bag and Rope
• Real Cloth Seatbelts

Back in the mid 1960's the two biggest names known around the drag racing community were Mondello & Matsubara. After the two teamed up in 1965 the drag world was never the same. They set numerous records and built one heck of a reputation to boot! They ran two very succesful fiats with smaller powerplants and in early 1969, Matsubara ordered another car; this time from a company named Exhibition Engineering. This Topolino helped further to immortalise the efforts of M&M. With it's wild paint job and blown 472 Chevrolet poerplant, it was a force to be reckoned with on the track. M&M set the national record for AA Fuel Altereds with a 7.24 ET and 213 mph pass at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis in 1969, and won runner-up in Competition Eliminator. To put that amazing performance into perspective, the low ET for Funny Cars at that event was 7.22! M&M certainly carved thier names in the history books with runs like that.