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Peter visited the USA on two occasions during the 1970s. His 1972 visit is the subject of previous pages in his collection. These pictures were taken on his 1975 foray at Indianapolis and feature the much-missed Pro Comp class. |
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The Bloodshot AA/D was Donovan-powered and campaigned by Mike Niver from Pheonix, Arizona. |
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This fine looking '71 Plymouth Cuda was entered by Simon Benton Industries anddriven by John Pheneger from Tallmadge, Ohio. The body was a 1974 Barracuda and it had a Plymouth engine. |
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"This was the Donovan engine from my '74 T/F car with 11.3:1 pistons and an alcohol cam, it had Donovan heads that came out in late '74 and the new "shotgun" Hilborn injector. I had sold my T/F chassis and was building a light weight new chassis for Pro/Comp, Dick Nelson was running this altered with an injected 468ci. big block Chevy on gasoline (petrol) . We put my motor in it to test the alcohol combination during the '75 season. Crazy George was the driver for the Chevy car - we had trouble at first with the car carrying the front wheels because the engine was only 59" out, and the coil over shocks (dampeners) would make the car difficult to handle when it set the wheels down. We replaced the coil overs with steel rods and added a 125# weight bar to get the car to handle. We were competitive and known for spectacular burn-outs, but the engine was very hard on valve springs. After the season was over I received a picture of a burn-out from the front of the car ,and George was doing wide open throttle - like he did with the injected Chevy !!! I ran this engine with a short stroke crank in my new dragster during '76 & '77 with Jack Mitchell driving. I parked the car in '78 due to my growing corporate responsibilities, and worked for NHRA at most major events with Carl Olson in the manufacturer's program until 1983 when I got involved with running the "Telstar" for Doc." |
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Some teams, such as The Fat Fleet of Dewars and Swedberg, had a foot in both the dragster and funny car camps. Jim Swedberg from Grand Forks, Maryland drove the dragster, Ben Griffin from Dallas, Texas shoed the flopper. |
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Unfortunately I have not been able to find any information on the S&W Race Cars dragster. |
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What a car! Supercharger and twin turbos - wild! |
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According to Draglist Don Gerardot's Homicidal was Chevrolet-powered and featured a Hal Canode chassis. |
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Owner Len Cottrell is still going strong in drag racing. This Donovan-powered car, one of many he has campaigned, was being driven by John Speelman from Warrebton, Virginia. |
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Doug Gordon's Purple Haze was another A Fuel Dragster. |
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I have absolutely no information on this car but could not resist including it. A slingshot dragster was well past its sell by date in the US in 1975 but this one still seems to be going strong. |
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Three pictures of Duwayne Engness's Hot Sauce Milodon-powered, Monza-bodied flopper. The attempt to streamline the blower is an interesting feature. |
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This is Carol Henson's Rodeck-powered Warlock. |
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'Wild Wilfred' Boutilier was from Carson, California and won the first Pro Comp race at Irwindale driving this Vega-bodied car and ran 6.98 seconds into the bargain thus becoming the first Pro Comp car into the sixes. |
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Jimmy Bruce driving Perry Holt's Monza-bodied car which he called the Music City Monza. Jimmy was from Franklin, Tennessee. |
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This is Texan cotton farmer Randy Lackey's Monza which was powered by a 460 inch Kelly Chadwick-prepared Chevy. |
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Tom Liddy from Cleveland, Ohio owned and drove this Sid Waterman-powered funny car which he called Nightstalker. |
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John Carter's 1974 Vega was Donovan-powered.
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Tom Trisch from Rock Ford, Illinois at the controls of Larry Adleman's 1974 Chevrolet Vega. The car was constructed by Larry Payne Race Cars and was powered by a Donovan Hemi. |
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Iowan Vern Moats from Des Moines drove the Oly Roller Vega to a best of 7.13 seconds at 198.23 mph according to Draglist. The power came from a Chrysler Hemi and Mark Williams built the chassis. |
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This car rejoiced in the name of Karmic Debris. Answers on a postcard please if you have any idea of the origin of the name. The driver was Kevin Siebert from Edinburg, Wisconsin. As you can see it was another of the popular Chevy Vegas which sat on a Bill Stebbins chassis. Power was provided by a Donovan Hemi. |
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My researches reveal several cars called Tequila Sunrise but the only Vega panel van was driven by Tim Richards from Pueblo, Colorado. A Keith Black Hemi provided the motivation. |
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Covina, California resident Brad Anderson qualified third at |
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Owner and Crew Chief Jim Foust's flopper was aptly named Alcoholic. The driver was drag racing legend Dale Armstrong who also tweaked the 505 inch Donovan Hemi. Jaime Sarte built the car using a 1974 Plymouth Satellite body. |
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Jeg Coughlin from Colombus, Ohio drove The Captain dragster which was Chevy-powered. As noted above Jeg lost in the final to Dale Armstrong. |
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The car is a 1973 Vega and was entered by the team of Bob Chipper and Dick Moore who were driver and Crew Chief respectively. This car was no mean performer and ran best numbers of 6.89/200.00 at Suffolk Dragway in November 1975. |
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My thanks to both Draglist and the 70s Funny Cars websites |
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