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The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters essentially a production car chassis with a "souped-up" engine. These early dragsters were nicknamed "rails", due to the ...
Tobias also started manufacturing Slingshot cars for use at local dirt tracks, [4] and also maintained the family business, Tobias Speed Equipment Inc. [5] In addition to racing NASCAR, Tobias also won a number of high-level dirt races in New York and Pennsylvania.
The front engine dragster came about due to engines initially being located in the car's frame in front of the driver. The driver sits angled backward, over the top of the differential in a cockpit situated between the two rear tires, a design originating with Mickey Thompson's Panorama City Special in 1954, as a way of improving traction. [1]
The Slingshot has a rear-mounted, 3-cylinder, gasoline engine with normal aspiration and induction. The engine gives out a total of 100 horsepower. It can go from 0-60 mph in about 10 seconds. The car uses a five-speed manual transmission. [2] The Slingshot has a combined fuel economy of 45 miles per US gallon (5.2 L/100 km; 54 mpg ‑imp).
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] (Chrisman's was the oddity, a roadster running a 6-71 GMC supercharger. [33])
The Slingshot was designed to be a "lifestyle-oriented vehicle purposely targeted at the young people of the 1990s." [3] Slingshot was designed as part of a series of three sports cars from Chrysler—along with the "Big Shot" and "Hot Shot."
An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said. While conducting an investigation, detectives ...
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]