Southern California Funny Cars

Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467109727

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Southern California Funny Cars by Steve Reyes Pdf

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 : Don Montgomery
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 096264546X

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Dragster And Funny Car Memories by Don Montgomery Pdf

Author : Lou Hart
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1583882200

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Drag Racing Funny Cars by Lou Hart Pdf

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 : Lou Hart
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613256985

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Early Funny Cars by Lou Hart Pdf

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 : Tyrone Georgiou
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433946981

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Funny Car Dragsters by Tyrone Georgiou Pdf

Learn about how fast funny cars can go and why they are funny.

Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622851591

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Smokin' Dragsters and Funny Cars by Jim Gigliotti Pdf

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 : Angie Peterson Kaelberer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736843892

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Funny Cars by Angie Peterson Kaelberer Pdf

Discusses funny cars, including their main features and how they are raced.

Author : Susan Creighton
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 089686362X

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Funny Cars by Susan Creighton Pdf

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 : Denny Von Finn
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612114132

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Funny Cars by Denny Von Finn Pdf

Funny cars get their name from their appearance. Their back wheels are much larger than the front wheels. Students will learn about the history and technology behind these fast, exciting race cars.

Author : Doug Boyce
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613255988

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Quarter-Mile Mustangs by Doug Boyce Pdf

Blast down the quarter mile in the first two generations of Ford’s legendary pony car across all drag racing classes in Quarter-Mile Mustangs! Since first becoming a mass-market success in mid-1964, the Ford Mustang has made millions of passes down the quarter mile on sanctioned drag strips. With styling flared toward the youth, aftermarket parts manufacturers saw an enormous opportunity to produce go-fast components to aid in propelling Ford’s pony car down the 1320. The success of these cars was immediate. In the hands of successful and seasoned pros, such as Gas Ronda, Bill Lawton, and Dick Brannan, Ford unleashed the devastatingly potent 1965 A/FX Mustang fastback, which was built by Blue Oval stalwarts Holman & Moody with the 427 SOHC (Cammer) engine that unleashed havoc on mother Mopar. From those very first factory drag cars through the fabled 1968-1/2 Cobra Jets, drag racing historian Doug Boyce highlights the many successes of pioneers, such as “Dyno” Don Nicholson, Les Ritchey, Phil Bonner, Hubert Platt, and Al Joniec. However, it’s not just all doorslammers. As A/FX transitioned into Funny Car, a whole new chapter in Mustang drag racing was written with Mickey Thompson taking the reins and steering Mustangs to success throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. The muscle car-era Mustangs joined the Mustang II and soldiered on the best they could as ever-changing rules hampered Ford’s new pony body, with drivers Bob Glidden and Nicholson trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of the diminutive pony. Quarter-Mile Mustangs: The History of Ford’s Pony Car at the Drag Strip 1964-1/2-1978 brings forth the most in-depth coverage of these cars at the drag strip. Don’t get caught sleeping at the light!

Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0760307954

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Funny Cars by Robert Genat Pdf

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 : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622850846

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Smokin' Dragsters and Funny Cars by Jim Gigliotti Pdf

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 : Wallace A Wyss,Louis Hart
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1583880682

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Drag Racing Funny Cars of the 1970s by Wallace A Wyss,Louis Hart Pdf

See the cars raced by many of the legendary names in drag racing, including Don Prudhomme, Tom McEuen and Jim Dunn. The authors include action shots, as well as clear, detailed "in the pits under-the-shell" shots. Photographs show various makes and models of cars that have been reconstructed as funny cars, plus everything from stock to modified Camaros, Mustangs, Javelins, Dodge Chargers, and Firebirds, to oddball exhibition cars like the "backwards pickup."

Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Cartech
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Funny cars
ISBN : 193249443X

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Funny Car Fever by Steve Reyes Pdf

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 : Angie Peterson Kaelberer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736866337

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Autos Funny Cars/Funny Cars by Angie Peterson Kaelberer Pdf

Learn about funny cars and how they race.