bogus wrote:
it's not about the look, Johnny. This was done to maximize weight transfer during launch. It was, at least in 1965, advanced technology.

This was also during a time when 7 second cars were insanely fast and sub-5 second cars were thought to defy physics. There aer now streetable 7 second cars and 4 second quarters (er, 1000 ft) are commonplace.