What would happen if you took a 1947 Cadillac to a drag race?

But secretly underneath the hood you had a Very high performance V8 with the original engine block to hide the sleeper even more? Would you manage to hustle them? Would the aerodynamic design of cars from the 40s give it less resistance than boxy newer cars?What would happen if you took a 1947 Cadillac to a drag race?Research a guy named Courtney Hines. Used to run a bad-@ss Caddy in NHRA Division 4. Last I heard, he was building turbo'd Caddy engines for streamliners at Bonneville.What would happen if you took a 1947 Cadillac to a drag race?similar cars race all the time at just about any given drag strip in the US, it's not uncommon for 40's or 50's cars to run 11 second 1/4 miles.What would happen if you took a 1947 Cadillac to a drag race?A stock bodied '47 Caddy is a land yacht that would more than likely get spanked by the newer, high performance and much lighter vehicles.