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Ronnie Scrima is an American dragster and funny car chassis builder. He was responsible for the streamliner slingshot dragster Scrimaliner in 1964. [1] After Logghe Bros. (based in Detroit [2]) proved unable to keep up with demand, a funny car chassis-building industry developed. Scrima joined several others in the business.
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]
Woody Gilmore (2 February 1933 – 3 July 2020) was a dragster and funny car chassis builder in the 1960s and 1970s. [1] Gilmore built the chassis for the top fuel streamliner Hustler VI in 1965. [2] In 1968, Doug Thorley bought a rear-engined Javelin funny car from Gilmore, powered by an AMC 401. [3]
A 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.
In 2005 Howe became one of three approved chassis builders for the ARCA Truck Series. [4] Series veteran John Kasmierski received the first chassis to achieve two top five finishes during the season. [5] The following season Paul Hahn won the championship racing a Howe chassis with a Chevrolet Colorado body. [6]
Brewster had chassis fitted with temporary seats and protection and driven from Rolls-Royce's Massachusetts plant to the Brewster Building in Long Island City, New York for bodies. The Rolls-Royce showrooms offered 28 standardized body styles so as to deliver cars to customers quicker and for a lower price.
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In the late 1940s, Epperly went to work for Frank Kurtis building racing car bodies; this led to a lifelong career in the racing business.. During the mid-1950s Epperly opened his own shop in Lawndale, California, and in 1957 he assisted chassis designer George Salih in the construction of a radical approach in racing car design which placed a four-cylinder Offenhauser engine on its side ...