True crazy hot rodding in 1958 resulted in this mid engined 23 Ford on 32 rails with a 51 Hemi... and the driver sitting down in the engine bay, looking through a clear plexi grill

Liberal early rules required little beyond a factory-production body attached—somewhere—to the chassis of choice. Engine type and location were similarly unrestricted.

Mitchell sat super-low (note bellypan) and surprisingly upright in the vacated engine compartment, peering through a clear-plastic insert in the 1932 grille shell.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/mid-engined-driverless-t-roadster-blew-minds-nhras-oklahoma-city-national-drags-1958/