Stop in for a cup of coffee

Hey, did anyone ever experiment with variable runner length manifolds? Like a trombone. I picture the carbs and a plenum on vertical tubes with a telescopic section followed by a curve to meet the intake ports.

How hard could that be?
Of course someone did. Pretty much everyone.
Variable-length intake manifold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is Toyota. Pretty clever if you ask me:
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