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This was a drag bike with a V8 engine from a Pro Stock drag car. It was originally built by Wally Pushkey and his team and ridden by Wally. It had a 292 cu. in. Ford V8, with direct drive (no clutch) and Wally and Rosco would rev it up to 5,000 rpm and rock it off a stand and Krazy Horse would leave rubber up the whole quarter-mile.
North Dakota teen’s runaway car speeds up to 120 mph before trooper’s daring rescue in ‘last-ditch’ plan to avoid horrifying disaster Associated Press October 4, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Richard Hartman, a crew chief for NHRA Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, rebodied a former Wilkerson Funny Car chassis into an Altered, reaching 4.92 seconds in the quarter-mile with a terminal velocity of 304.53 MPH. [22] It is the fastest quarter-mile car currently in the NHRA, as Top Fuel and Funny Car both run only to 1,000 feet.
Toyota became the first Japanese car company to get involved with drag racing. After years of competing in other cars, in 2002, HKS returned with the Mk IV version of the HKS Drag Supra, driven by Tetsuya "Dryhopp" Kawasaki , [ 8 ] its 4.0 liter 1UZ-FE V-8, equipped with two prototype HKS GT3540 turbos, HKS rods and billet crank and stock ...
Two Top Fuel dragsters side by side during an NHRA event in 2012. Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 341.68 miles per hour (549.9 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.61 seconds.
Mantel took over the '68 car which has the longest performing history of any Hemi Under Glass ever constructed and becomes the third official driver in the brand's 50+ year history. [6] Mantel was only 6 years old when the Hemi Under Glass first took to the track. He has a wide range of driving experience from drag cars, road race, and movie cars.
A gasser is a type of hot rod originally used for drag racing. This type of car originated in United States in the late 1950s and continued until the early 1970s. [1] [2] In the days before Pro Stock, the A/Gas cars were the fastest stock-appearing racers around. [3]
The Dodge Little Red Wagon is an exhibition drag racing truck introduced in 1965. It was the first wheelstanding truck and was the world's fastest truck at that time.. Builders Jim Schaeffer and John Collier performed extensive modifications to the Dodge A100 in order to fit a 426 Hemi engine and TorqueFlite automatic transmission.