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The Logghe Stamping Company (commonly known as Logghe Brothers) is a dragster and funny car fabricator based in Detroit, Michigan. [1]Logghe Brothers, operated by brothers Ron and Gene, [2] was the first company to produce funny car chassis in series, beginning in 1966, when they built Don Nicholson's Eliminator I, with a reproduction Mercury Comet body provided by Fiberglass Trends. [3]
Altered is a former National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing class and a current drag racing chassis configuration that forms the basis of many classes of NHRA Competition Eliminator. The altered is "[s]ometimes called the poor man's [d]ragster". [1]
In each episode, David Ankin and his team design and build motorized creations. Notable works include GPS, a three-quarter scale chain-driven car, the "Beast", a mid-engine formula car and winner of the Magnaflow People's Choice Award at SEMA in Las Vegas in 2017, a four-foot racing drone, and a street-legal dragster.
Drag racing is a type of motor racing in which automobiles ... first tube chassis Pro Stock ... intentionally spinning and smoking the tires to build heat for better ...
Built at John Buttera's shop, and conceived by Buttera and body man Louie Teckenoff, the car was an unusual magnesium monocoque (rather than the more commonplace tube chassis). The body panels were 0.050 in (1.3 mm)-thick sheet, fastened with adhesives and over 5,000 rivets; the inner and outer skins were separated by high-density foam. [1]
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Needing a good tuner, while Coil needed money to keep racing, the trio joined forces in winter 1966. [ 7 ] In 1967, they decided to move from Super Stock to Funny Car (not yet an official NHRA class), building the first Chi-Town Hustler (a name conceived by Minick in 1966, but never attached to their Super Stock car), a tube-chassis 1967 ...
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