Nov 24, 2011 · I saw this great clip from 1971 on youtube and had to do a photochop image of the KingFish cuda funny car. The footage of its pre-stage burnout is fantastic! I love how the rear wheels poke out like a gasser, something I've never seen before in a funny car.

The Kingfish Cuda Funny Car blasts off the line at the 1967 Super Stock Nationals. This begins a series of my Super Stock Nationals photos that draglist.com will run from time to time. First up is not an S/S car, but the Larry Reyes-Larry Coleman Kingfish blown fuel funny from the 1967 event.

Jan 17, 2025 · Drake Viscome wheeled a series of Ford-bodied and -powered Vindicator injected-fuel Funny Cars on the East Coast Fuel Funny Car circuit, including this Boss 429-powered Pinto.

A funny car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies over a custom-fabricated chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers' showroom models.

Jan 17, 2025 · In the sport’s earlier years, Funny Cars were everywhere, and some of them were seldom seen outside of their region. Here’s a look back at a collection of Funny Cars from our archives that...

Jun 3, 2019 · It's a nice little tale about the Kingfisher Sprint, or actually one very unusual version of that car dubbed the Kingfisher Turbo Sprint Coupe 4WD HS. He we go, in Tom's words: "I’m not sure how we met our friend John, but he came up to the farm when we had our first Avengers.

In July 1977, Gery Bettenhausen drove a 1973 Kingfish to second place behind AJ Foyt at Mosport Park and collected $19,863 for the team, by far the best result achieved by a King Indycar. After three years, the Dragon-Offys were dropped, and the 1973 cars were brought back out and fitted with Chevrolet engines.

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The funny cars he drove were the unusual Genuine Suspension "AMX-1" Javelin and the equally unusual rear engine "Javelin 1" of Doug Thorley. The fuel altereds Ferraro drove were the Genuine Suspension Fiat and the Campos Bros. "Low Blow" 23T.