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Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson (December 7, 1928 – March 16, 1988) was an American auto racing builder and promoter. A hot rodder since his youth, Thompson increasingly pursued land speed records in his late 20s and early 30s. [ 1 ]
Mickey Thompson collaborated with Fritz Voight in building the dragster, which had a fully enclosed body (except the steel front wheels), including a closed canopy. [1] It was powered by a pair of 392 cu in (6,420 cc) Chrysler hemis, one facing forward to drive the rear wheels, the other facing backward to drive the front ones. [1]
The Panorama City Special is a pioneering streamliner dragster. [1]Believed to be the first "slingshot" dragster, [2] the Panorama City Special (designed by hot rodder Mickey Thompson) had a full body, including skirted rear wheels, and a cockpit windshield wrapping around and over the driver. [3]
Racing equipment includes tubular exhaust headers, an electric fuel pump, altered rear suspension with heavy-duty traction control bars and asymmetrical leaf springs, trunk-mounted heavy duty battery, locking differential, auxiliary gauges, special drag race wheels and tires supplied both by Goodyear and Mickey Thompson (himself a recipient of ...
‘Speed King’ Mickey Thompson and wife Trudy were found dead outside their Los Angeles home – and for more than a decade, no one knew why. The new show ‘Homicide: Los Angeles’ dives into ...
Mickey Thompson is credited with introducing the slingshot design in 1954; it would become the dominant dragster design until the early 1970s. [ 2 ] In the quest to develop more driving traction, there were several dragsters built with four rear drive wheels, including cars by Art Chrisman (along with his brother, Lloyd, and partner Frank ...