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Thompson campaigned a funny car in 1971 In 1965, Thompson published Challenger: Mickey Thompson's own story of his life of Speed . In 1968, he and Danny Ongais took three Ford Mustang Mach 1 to the Bonneville salt flats for a feature in Hot Rod magazine, in the process setting 295 speed and endurance records over a series of 500-mile and 24 ...
Funny cars proved enormously popular, with cars driven by Chrisman and Beswick setting track records all over the U.S. [17] The first wave of funny car development ended around 1965, when bracket racer Jim Liberman and crew chief Lew Arrington made a deal with Pontiac to supply rare hemis (remnants of Mickey Thompson's gas dragster program).
The Hemi Under Glass was developed by Hurst Corporation to showcase their products in the A/FX class - precursor to funny cars. In 1965, George Hurst hired Wild Bill Shrewsberry of Mansfield, OH, an accomplished drag racer who had raced for both Mickey Thompson and Jack Chrisman. After helping to pioneer it into the first wheelstanding ...
Mickey Thompson was known as the fastest man on four wheels. The racing legend earned the sobriquet ‘Speed King’ after breaking the American land-speed record in 1960, clocking in at almost ...
Top Fuel was the first category, with Funny Cars added in 1966, Pro Stock four years later and Pro Stock Motorcycles in 1987. Both Top Fuel and Funny Cars regularly see top speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour (480 km/h) today, and one thousand foot times anywhere from 3.70 to 4 seconds.
Beneath Mickey Thompson's 1971 Mustang Funny Car body is a racing chassis that shares no commonality with the production vehicle. A silhouette racing car is a race car which, although bearing a superficial resemblance to a production model, differs mechanically in fundamental ways.
Brutus is a pioneering funny car driven by Jim Liberman and prepared by crew chief Lew Arrington in the mid-1960s. [1]Liberman and Arrington made a deal with Pontiac to supply Drarare hemis (remnants of Mickey Thompson's gas dragster program).
Former US marine Rob Riggle, 54, only appeared on "SNL" for one season, and in that time, he mimicked Toby Keith, Howard Dean, and Mark McGuire. He also played Larry the Cable Guy on the show.