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Funny Car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies over a custom-fabricated chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers' showroom models.
Nostalgia drag racing is a form of drag racing that uses cars from earlier eras of drag racing, as well as cars built to fit the guidelines of earlier eras using parts that would have been available in that era. The cars raced are a mixture between restored originals, while others are re-creations of older cars. [1]
McEwen's 1975 funny car. McEwen won the race against Prudhomme at Lions Drag Strip on September 12, 1964. He beat overcame Prudhomme's bright-orange edition of the famed Greer-Black-Prudhomme car two outings in a row, inspiring what may be the most famous match-race pairing in the history of drag racing. [11]
Through Bailey, Stenberg met Twig Zeigler, a funny car driver from Hood River who competed in the 1970s, and made “Nostalgia Funny Car Racing – Twig Zeigler.”
He began drag racing in the Stock division at Fremont Raceway in 1964 [5] and made a jump up to funny cars in 1965, driving an injected Nova on nitromethane dubbed Hercules. [5] Later that year he started on the national scene as the driver of Lew Arrington's supercharged GTO Funny Car, Brutus. [5]
The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly a "nostalgia drag racing" event. In the 2000s, "Saturday Nitro" events featured Fuel altereds then switched to nostalgia funny cars around 2010. After a driver died in an on-track hit on the guardrail, they stopped hosting these non-sanctioned events.
In 2009, after having taken a hiatus from the sport, Leong returned to drag racing, now acting as crew chief for "vintage" Nitro Funny Cars racing primarily in NHRA's new Hot Rod Heritage Series. [6] In 2014, Canadian drag racer Ron Hodgson hired Leong to tune the Troy Lee Designs Nitro Funny Car driven by Tim Boychuk, [ 7 ] for competition in ...
Frymore Racing, Mendy Fry Racing, Ron Johnson Racing, Mastercam, California Trucker, McCain's Bomb Squad, Forever Young AA/Fuel Dragster, Smokey's Darkside Nitro Funny Car Mendy Fry (pronounced "min-dy" [ 1 ] ) (born May 24, 1969 in Santa Rosa, California ) is an American dragster and funny car driver competing in the NHRA . [ 2 ]