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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]
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.
AFX body shells encompassed a variety of themes including the Can-Am racing series, NASCAR and Trans-Am series stock cars, Formula 1, Funny Car Drag Racing, sports cars, off-road cars, and street cars, as well as custom designs. Aurora contracted with race car drivers whose images and endorsements appeared on AFX Slot Car sets.
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 ]
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]
Hurst Hemi Under Glass is the name given to a series of exhibition drag racing cars campaigned by Hurst Performance between 1965 and 1970 across North America and ended with the '68 model year. Each wheelstander was based on the current Plymouth Barracuda for the corresponding model year.
Debuting in 1969, Rambunctious is a reproduction 1969 Dodge Charger on a Logghe Stamping Company chassis. It became one of the most famous (and popular) funny cars in NHRA history. [1] It would record NHRA's first official 200 mph (320 km/h) pass, driven by Gene Snow and powered by a Keith Black-prepared Chrysler hemi. [1]
Allen Johnson's Mopar Dodge Avenger Pro Stock. Pro stock is a class of drag racing featuring "factory hot rods".The class is often described as "all motor", due to the cars not using any form of forced induction such as turbocharging or supercharging, or other enhancements, like nitrous oxide, along with regulations governing the modifications allowed to the engines and the types of bodies used.