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The class recreates the style of drag racing very popular in the 1960s with drivers like Ronnie Sox, Dick Landy, Butch Leal and Judy Lilly. NSS's roots go back to the early 1980s, when retired Super Stock racers Dave Duell, Arlen Vanke and others started exhibition racing 1960s style Super Stock at nostalgia racing events. The popularity of the ...
In September 1995, she was involved in a serious accident at Beaver Springs Dragway that threatened to end her racing career. Near the traps, Carl Ruth's funny car crossed the centerline into the left lane, pushing Burkett's into the guardrail. [4] Burkett got her nickname, "Bunny", because she had been a Playboy Club hostess. [3]
Shrewsberry's 1970 L.A. Dart was the subject of a 1/25-scale plastic model kit first produced by Model Products Corporation and since reissued by Model King using the original tooling. That same car, updated for the 1971 season with a 1971 front grille is still owned by Shrewsberry and is undergoing restoration at his son's home in Ridgecrest.
Nostalgia drag racing is a form of drag racing that uses cars from earlier eras of drag racing, as well as cars built to fit the guidelines of earlier eras using parts that would have been available in that era. The cars raced are a mixture between restored originals, while others are re-creations of older cars. [1]
Pacers Auto, Inc.® was a popular, record-setting drag racing team in the early 1950s and 1960s. Based in Oceanside, New York on Long Island, The Pacers' "Snizek & Dodge Racing Team" made up of co-owners George Snizek as driver, and Charlie Dodge as tuner, were favored by fans and feared by competitors.
The Game of Life (1960) Management (1960) Battle Cry (1961) Chancellorsville (1961) Civil War (1961) D-Day (1961) Go — The International Travel Game (1961) Acquire (1962) Aggravation (1962) Oh-Wah-Ree (1962) Square Mile; Vallco Professional Drag Racing; Focus (1964) Probe (1964) Blitzkrieg (1965) Breakthru (1965) Mystery Date (1965) Nuclear ...
Drag Safari would lead to the 1955 US Nationals for drag racing. [2] Due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the NHRA cancelled its 2020 and 2021 editions of the Drag Racing Series at the Virginia Motorsports Park. Regular scheduling resumed in 2022, with the events taking place in May of that year. [4]
Jerry Ruth was born the youngest of three brothers in Kent, Washington south of Seattle on the Benson Highway. His Father was a real estate developer. His brother Bill continued in his fathers footsteps operating W. E. Ruth Real Estate for many years, very visibly by using a caboose as his office next door to the family home.