{"id":3566,"date":"2020-01-09T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2020-01-09T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:09:08","slug":"charlie-lloyd-wood-hydro-and-funny-car-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/charlie-lloyd-wood-hydro-and-funny-car-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Lloyd &#8211; wood hydro (and funny car) builder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I posted this before (and my apologies to whoever sent me this article from 2010 Super Chevy magazine), but did you know famed hydro builder Charlie  Lloyd built a fiberglass Funny Car body? <br \/>This was before Ford pressured NHRA into making the fiberglass car body into a one-piece tilt-up style we are all accustomed to seeing. Below is the magazine article and some pics of the 1966 Chevelle he built out of fiberglass.  It looks like a slightly altered steel body, but it&#8217;s not. The whole thing is fiberglass. The Pennsylvania Chevy Dealer parts department ordered all the body parts of the 1966 Chevelle, including the turret top. Charlie &amp; Mike Lloyd&#8217;s body shop made the fiberglass molds of the steel parts, and from those molds made replicas of the original pieces, but in fiberglass.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_racecar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_racecar.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_racecar-768x254.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_racecar-556x184.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption>Fiberglass body built by Charlie Lloyd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_chevelle_funnycar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3568\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_chevelle_funnycar-rear.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3569\"\/><figcaption> Larson`s groundbreaking Funny Car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article1-779x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article1-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article1-768x1009.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article1-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article1.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"811\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article2-811x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article2-811x1024.jpg 811w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article2-768x970.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article2-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article2.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article4-808x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article4-808x1024.jpg 808w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article4-768x973.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article4-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lloyd_car_article4.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I posted this before (and my apologies to whoever sent me this article from 2010 Super Chevy magazine), but did you know famed hydro builder Charlie Lloyd built a fiberglass Funny Car body? This was before Ford pressured NHRA into making the fiberglass car body into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}