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Check out our 1:6th scale HEMI die-cast engines HERE. Jim Butcher's ZL-1 Chevy-Powered NHRA National Record Holder Top Fuel Dragster - In 1973 Jim Bucher set the Top Fuel class on it's ear with his Chevrolet-powered Top Fueler. The all-aluminum ZL-1 big-block Chevrolet had a serious weight advantage over the cast iron Chrysler Hemis. The car set the NHRA national e.t. record at the ‘73 Gatornationals, with a 6.09, and scored a Top Fuel win at the ’74 Summernationals. - KST John Peters' Twin Chevy Engine "Freight Train" AA/Gas Dragster - By the late ‘60s Top Fuel dragsters had become stout, ground-hugging, hunky kings of drag racing. Unfortunately, as cars became more and more stressed to the max, the danger level went through the roof. Dragsters have had many nick names, such as - diggers, rails, rail jobs, slingshots, and eventually grenades! SMOKIN!!! - By the late ‘60s Top Fuel dragsters had become stout, ground-hugging, hunky kings of drag racing. Unfortunately, as cars became more and more stressed to the max, the danger level went through the roof. Dragsters have had many nick names, such as - diggers, rails, rail jobs, slingshots, and eventually grenades! Don Garlits' Swamp Rat XXX - Top Fuel drag racer Eddie Hill started a trend that lasted a few years and resulted in several of the most unusual crashes in all of drag racing... the infamous “blow-overs.” Hill, a mechanical engineer took a minimalist view on what was needed to the front end of a dragster. Hill started using small diameter front tires and was the first to run into the 4’s with a 4.99. Everyone noticed and started using tiny front tires. Don Garlits' 1964 Wynns Jammer" AA/Fuel Dragster - At the 1964 Nationals, Don Garlits, in his Dodge powered “Wynns Jammer” took the Top Fuel Eliminator win and set low e.t. of the event in a final run effort of 7.67 @198.22 m.p.h.! Althought the car looks amazingly short by today’s standards, Garlits’ car was state-of-the-art for 1964. Big Daddy Don Garlits Line Portrait - Big Daddy Don Garlits has the distinction and honor of having his 1987 Swamp Rat XXX on permanent loan to the Smithsonian Institute! The Smithsonian is also the home of Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis, and the first manned space capsule. Don Garlits SR-1 Top Fuel Dragster - Though Garlits Swamp Rat 1-R was by no means the first rear-engine dragster, his was the first one that “worked.” While recuperating from a horrific crash in 1970, Garlits couldn’t get it out of his head that there must be a way of making a rear-engine dragster go straight. Many had tried before, and nearly all had crashed or were so hard to drive that they were never raced again. Jim Butcher's ZL-1 Big-Block Chevy Top Fuel Dragster - In 1972 Jim Bucher set the Top Fuel class on it's ear with his Chevrolet-powered Top Fueler. The all-aluminum ZL-1 big-block Chevrolet had a serious weight advantage over the cast iron Chrysler Hemis. The all-aluminum big-block Chevy took the NHRA Top Fuel et record with a 6.09 run at the '73 Gatornationals. A year and a half later, at the '74 Summernationals, Butcher's lightweight Chevy won Top Fuel! ZL-1 Chevys totally dominated Can-Am racing from '69 to '74 with the McLaren Can-Am cars and many a Pro Stock Chevy used the all-aluminum engine. But Butcher's Top Fuel success was arguably the most unusual racing application of Chevy's aluminum engine. This was Chevrolet's last, brief shining moment in Top Fuel racing. It had been years since a Chevrolet-powered Top Fuel dragster held the NHRA National Record or took a majon national event win in Top Fuel. - KST SLICKS - A Drag Racing Still-Life - One day at Atco Raceway I happened upon two slicks off to one side of a funny car. Obviously, someone had just put them there while working on their car, but the arrangement was perfect. Were it not for advanced tire compounds, drag racers would still be smoking the tires all the way down the track the way they did in the ‘50s and early ‘60s. Clayton Harris' Top Fuel Dragster - Clayton Harris began his racing career in 1959 with a blown Top Gas dragster, which he use to win the 1966 NHRA Division 2 Top Gas championship. Eddie Hill's 1961 Pontiac-Powered Dragster - Eddie Hill used his mechanical engineering skills to build this Pontiac-powered C/Class Dragster in 1961. Long before Eddie was first in the 4s, he was tearing up track all across the South with this Pontiac-powered dragster. Eddie would later go on to race Top Fuel drag boats! - KST Eddie Hill's Twin Dragon Dragster - The multi-engine craze was in full swing in the early '60s. What was so unique about Hill's "Twin Dragon" was that Eddie actually designed and made his own aluminum castings that held this unique machine together. As a graduate of Texas Engineering, making castings was more like a school homework project. Lonnie Butts' A/Comp Chrysler Dragster - There were a lot of people that knew Lonnie Butts, an old drag racer from the sixties. Lonnie Butts was a classic Southern California, early '60 racer. People that knew Lonnie would agree that a nicer man would be hard to find. If there was someone that needed help at the track, Lonnie was there for them and that is what people will probably remember most about him. Sneaky Pete Robinson - Pete Robinson was one of a handful of guys who approached drag racing from a mechanical engineering background. Like Eddie Hill and Bill Jenkins, Pete’s engineering approach to drag racing often put him at the head of the pack. His fanaticism for light weight is well known. Don Prudhomme's Wedge Streamliner Dragster - Drag racers have always looked for some kind of edge for racing the 1320. Streamlining and aerodynamic tricks have come and gone. The problem with most designs is that they add too much weight to a car that only races for 6 seconds or less. John Peters' Freight Train Twin-Engine Chevy Dragster - John Peters' "Freight Train" AA/Gas Dragster was a real crowd favorite. One might think that running a dragster with 2 engines would be double trouble. But not according to Peters. Both of the supercharged small-block Chevy engines were built such that neither engine was really stressed. There were many times when Peters ran the car in a final with "only " 15 cylinders! One or two cylinders could go down and the car still performed well. - KST Top Fuel Blindness - Before tire compounds caught up with the horsepower racers were generating with their supercharged engines, it was standard fare for a dragster to smoke the tires almost all the way down the track. These weren’t “burnouts,” just tires without much traction. Slingshot Shutdown - By 1970, front engine dragsters were stressed to the limit. High speed crashes and explosions made great magazine photos, but several excellent drivers were lost. So when “Big Daddy” Don Garlits proved that a rear engine dragster would work and provide much more safety for the drivers, teams flocked to the new design. You can use the Google Search Box below to search this site or the Net. Got a question or can't find something? E-mail us at: lightoak@comcast.netDon't forget to bookmark us. |
