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Southern California Funny Cars

Steve Reyes

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Arcadia Pub (Sc)
19 June 2023
"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."

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Imprint:   Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   363g
ISBN:   9781540256867
ISBN 10:   1540256863
Series:   Images of America
Pages:   130
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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