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Grumpy's Toys: The Authorized History of Grumpy Jenkins' Cars is an authorized biography of drag racing legend Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, with Jenkins himself writing the book's foreword. [1] The book was written by author Doug Boyce, who has also written the book Junior Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan.
There are over 40 classes of Altereds and Street Rods today, all based on vehicle and engines. Currently, Altereds may start as sub-2000cc 4-cylinder engines such as the Formula F Ford Kent engine (AA or BB/AF and H/EA). At the 1977 Winternationals in Pomona, California, more than 75 altereds contested for the Competition Eliminator title. [2]
He became known in national circles as the engine builder for Dave Strickler in the early 1960s. Jenkins teamed with Strickler to win Little Eliminator at the 1963 Nationals with an A/FX 427 Chevy. [7] He drove hemi-powered Dodges in 1964 and 1965 after Chevy left drag racing early in the 1963 season. In 1964, Jenkins and Strickler travelled to ...
The popularity of the class evolved into a category of drag racing with hundreds of cars and drivers competing in Championship series, and large nostalgia drag racing events. The spirit of NSS drag racing has the same models of cars that raced Super Stock between 1959 and 1969—but with certain safety equipment updates. [ 1 ]
Steve Reyes (born 1948) is an American photographer and storyteller from Oakland, California. [1] Reyes has been included in Don Garlits' International Drag Racing Hall of Fame (2002), [2] NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion Honorees (2009), [3] and the East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame (2011).
Prudhomme's Top Fuel dragster in 1992. Prudhomme crewed for "TV Tommy" Ivo on Ivo's twin-engined slingshot in 1960. [2]In 1962, Prudhomme was a partner in the Greer-Black-Prudhomme fuel digger, which earned the best win record in National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) history, [3] before switching to Funny Car.
Winged Express qualified for the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, a 32-car field in Top Fuel, at an AA/FA record elapsed time of 7.29 seconds, only to have the rest of the field refuse to race Borsch, for fear of the ill-handling Altered. It turned out they were right: in Round One of Super Eliminator, Borsch went from guardrail to centerline, in a ...
The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters essentially a production car chassis with a "souped-up" engine. These early dragsters were nicknamed "rails", due to the ...