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  2. Funny Car - Wikipedia

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    It would be the first Funny Car on the cover of Hot Rod, in April 1966. [32]) Similar cars went to Chrisman, "Fast Eddie" Schartman, and Kenz and Leslie. [33] These cars had the first coilover suspension in funny car, and were powered by Hilborn-injected 427 SOHCs producing 1,000 hp (750 kW) on 80% nitro. [33]

  3. Plymouth Barracuda - Wikipedia

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    1966 Plymouth Barracuda. For the 1966 model year the Barracuda received new taillamps, new front sheet metal, and a new instrument panel. The latter had room for oil pressure and tachometer gauges on models so equipped. The 1966 front sheet metal which, except for the grille, was shared with the Valiant, gave a more rectilinear contour to the ...

  4. George Barris (auto customizer) - Wikipedia

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    Hot rod art, automobile customizing and pinstriping ... a Plymouth Barracuda for Fireball 500, ... a 1966 design that was a popular plastic car model for collectors ...

  5. Nostalgia Super Stock - Wikipedia

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    Started in the sales competition between the major American automobile manufacturers General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in the 1950s and 1960s, fueled by low cost oil and the horsepower available from ever larger and more powerful V-8 engines underneath two carburetors, and administered by sanctioning organizations such as the National Hot Rod ...

  6. Ronnie Sox - Wikipedia

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    In 1965, he drove an altered-Wheelbase Plymouth. He started the 1966 season in an injected, nitro-burning Barracuda Funny Car. [citation needed] Later he drove Plymouths in Pro Stock and had "Clinic" cars with Plymouths. [citation needed] Sox went on to drive a Mercury Comet in IHRA Pro Modified for a few years before retiring from drag racing.

  7. Wild Bill Shrewsberry - Wikipedia

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    Shrewsberry is best known as the driver of the drag racing replica of the Barris-built Batmobile from the 1966 television series [1] [2] and of the "L.A. Dart," a series of wheelstanding funny cars each with a rear-mounted, supercharged Chrysler Hemi engine and each sponsored by the Dodge and Plymouth dealers of Los Angeles and Orange Counties ...

  8. Fireball 500 - Wikipedia

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    The film was shot starting 9 March 1966. (The same month AIP began filming Hells Angels on Wheels .) [ 8 ] The "Fireball 500" is a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda , heavily customized by George Barris , with a standard 273 cubic inch V-8 engine that develops 275 h.p. [ 9 ] At one point in the film, the car is referred to as the Batmobile, prompting ...

  9. Hurst Hemi Under Glass - Wikipedia

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    The original 1965 car was stripped for its power train and parts in 1967 for the new Barracuda chassis/body style and no longer exists. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] While taping the June 26, 2016 episode of Jay Leno's Garage , Riggle, with Leno riding in the passenger seat, rolled a newly constructed '69 version of the Hemi Under Glass after turning sharply at ...