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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]
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.
Brabham and Lotus chassis were used extensively by other teams during the 1960s and 1970s and several quite competitive privateer teams never built their own chassis. Rob Walker Racing Team was the most successful example, being responsible for the first victories in Formula One for both Cooper and Lotus.
The car was modified for 1970, and it was called the 3B. McNamara was one of the first manufacturers to experiment with riveted and glued aluminum monocoque race car chassis. The team also built chassis for Mario Andretti in 1970 for the Indianapolis 500, as well as modifying Andretti's March 701 in Formula One. Neither car proved successful ...
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]
Jeff Schwartz is an American protouring car builder/designer and former professional road racer who brought to market the first Bolt-in Muscle Car Chassis for GM A-body cars. [1] In his modified and equipped cars, Schwartz is a six-time winner of the Car Craft Magazine's Real Street Eliminator competition with his fifth and sixth win at the ...
Riley & Scott was among the new chassis builders selected for the new Indy Racing League in 1997. The MkV IndyCar was competitive out of the box but had few customers because the car was not ready until the 1998 season, by which time most teams had already purchased the competing Dallara or G-Force chassis.
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 ...