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2. Front engine dragster - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Dragster (car) - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Top Fuel - Wikipedia

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   Two Top Fuel dragsters side by side during an NHRA event in 2012. Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 338.94 miles per hour (545.5 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.641 seconds.

5. Category:Drag racing cars - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Drag racing cars" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. ... Front engine dragster; G. Gasser (car) Glass Slipper (dragster)

6. Drag racing - Wikipedia

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   NDRL competition vehicles typically include Front Engine Dragsters, Altereds, Funny Cars, early Pro Stock clones, Super Stocks and Gassers. [ 14 ] The National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) races electric vehicles against high performance gasoline-powered vehicles such as Dodge Vipers or classic muscle cars in 1/4 and 1/8 mile (402 m ...

7. Glass Slipper (dragster) - Wikipedia

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   The workmanship was so good, she won "America's Most Beautiful Competition Car" at the 1957 Oakland Roadster Show. [1] Glass Slipper was a short-wheelbase front-engined digger with front hairpins, lakester-style wheel discs (Moon discs), covered frame rails, a closed cockpit, and exposed exhaust pipes, bearing a strong resemblance to a sprint ...

8. C/D-Built Twin-Engine Honda CR-X Is up for Auction on ... - AOL

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   Front-engine or mid-engine, which layout is best? ... Testing the viability of that theory, Car and Driver built this project car in the 1980s. Not just a thought experiment, the twin-engine CR-X ...

9. Tom McEwen (drag racer) - Wikipedia

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   The Plymouth Hemi Cuda [9] he unveiled in 1965 was featured in every major car magazine. He convinced the Southern California Plymouth Dealers Association to support him and displayed the car all over the West Coast. In 1967, McEwen took the same approach with one of drag racing's great one-shot wonders, Ford's Super Mustang. The car stole the ...