Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780760307953
Traces the development of funny cars from the stock cars of the early 1960s to the dragsters of today, including coverage of the sport of funny car racing, types of funny cars, and famous drivers.
Author : Lou Hart
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781583882207
Since the early 1960s, dealer-sponsored Super Stockers battled for supremacy on the quarter-mile and in the dealer showrooms. Evolving into the Factory Experimental class, these wild steel bodied, altered–wheelbase monsters were stuffed with massive fuel injected and supercharged engines that attracted crowds to the dragstrip! Legendary pioneers “Dyno” Don Nicholson, Jack Chrisman, Bill Shrewsberry, Butch Leal, Dick Landy, Arnie Beswick, Phil Bonner, Gas Ronda, Don Gay, Sox & Martin, Richard Petty, and many other A/FX stars were instrumental in the development of the funny car as it morphed from a heavy production car into seven-second 250mph aerodynamic fiberglass, tubular chassis missile. The popularity of funny cars led “Jungle Jim” Lieberman, Bill Lawton, Lew Arrington, Bill Flynn, Norm Kraus, and “Big” John Mazmanian to become household names. Tom ”Mongoose” McEwen, Don “Snake” Prudhomme, Tom Hoover, Kenny Safford, Terry Capp, John Force, Kenny Bernstein, Jake Johnston, Larry Reyes, Richard Tharp, Roland Leong, Randy Walls, Jess Tyree, Rich Siroonian and others who achieved success racing funny cars are all featured in over 300 incredible color and black and white photos.
Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766028722
"Learn about drag racing, funny cars, and experience what it feels like to spend the day at a drag race"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Cartech
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Funny cars
ISBN : 9781932494433
There wasn't always a class for these "funny-looking" cars. In the mid 1960s, many of drag racing's fastest drivers were outgrowing the Super Stock and Factory Experimental classes, building cars that stretched and eventually broke the rules. Promoters discovered they could pair up these altered-wheelbase, injected, blown machines in exhibition match races--and the spectators came running. Rivalries were born, the Funny Car class was created, and the cars kept getting faster and faster. Funny Car Fever is a humorous, heart-felt, first-hand account of the most exciting and memorable years of the Funny Car class. Steve Reyes followed these fiberglass-bodied, nitro burning machines and their drivers from the years leading up to the creation of the Funny Car class through its halcyon days. He's included over 350 of his favorite images and more than a few never-before-heard stories to bring the feeling of the class and the era home to you.
Author : Lou Hart
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1613256981
Blast through the evolving early years of Funny Car drag racing when doorslammers morphed into flip-top rail monsters. The era features historic mounts from Arnie "the Farmer" Beswick, Al “the Flying Dutchman” Vanderwoude, "Jungle" Jim Liberman, Don “the Snake” Prudhomme, and many more! The metamorphosis from doorslammers to fiberglass flip-top dragsters wasn’t ever a cut and dry plan. As drag racers pushed the envelope for more speed, a series of innovations quickly evolved and refined the genre. Funny Cars cut their teeth in the A/Factory Experimental (A/FX) and Experimental Stock (X/S) classes in 1964 with the 2-percent Mopars that looked funny with their axles moved forward. However, it was Jack Chrisman’s supercharged, nitro-fueled 427 Supercharged Factory Experimental (S/FX) Comet Caliente that trailblazed the class on which the NHRA turned its back and the AHRA fully accepted. Showmanship became the draw in the dawn of Funny Car with half-track burnouts and flame-throwing headers that packed fans five deep at the fence. By 1969, the NHRA had no choice but to create a class for these nitro-breathing, flip-top-sporting rail bruisers, indoctrinating the Funny Car (F/C) class at the Winternationals with 40 cars vying for 16 places in the field. The rest, as they say, is history!
Author : Angie Peterson Kaelberer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736866330
Learn about funny cars and how they race.
Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 146710972X
Southern California was the birthplace of organized drag racing, with the first organized race held at the Santa Ana airport in 1949 and the subsequent founding of the National Hot Rod Association in 1950. Over the next decade and a half, the dragster became the king of the quarter mile on Southern California drag strips. In 1964, veteran dragster owner/driver Jack Chrisman had an idea for something different to grace Southern California's drag strips. It was not a dragster but a stock-bodied race car using nitromethane for fuel in a supercharged engine. With the help of Gene Mooneyham, Mercury's Fran Hernandez, and sponsor Helen Sachs, Chrisman put together the world's first nitro-burning "funny car." It was a steel stock-bodied Mercury Cyclone with a supercharged 427 Ford engine running on pure nitromethane. Chrisman started the evolution that soon turned stock steel-bodied cars into fiberglass-bodied tube chassis funny cars. Southern California drag racers began to lead the way for racers all over the United States in the new funny car class.
Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 162285084X
This fun volume explores the personalities, the history, and the crazy cars associated with the wild world of drag racing. Readers get a look into the different types of drag racing, and a "day at the races" for an exciting you-are-there feeling.
Author : Susan Creighton
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780896863620
Describes the sport of funny car racing, an event in drag racing competition, including its history, types of funny cars, the drag strip, and famous drivers.
Author : Sean McCollum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491481773
"In a top-ten format presents the worlds fastest cars"--Provided by publisher.
