Despite the stock wheelbase, Bill Shirey’s Plymouth was a funny car with an injected Hemi under the hood and a drag chute on the rear bumper.
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Bill Shirey “The Professor” funny car | Detroit Dragway
Posted in 1966 Also tagged Detroit Dragway, drag racing, Funny Car, historical photos, motorsports, nostalgia racing, Tom Bonner 4 Comments
Detroit Dragway: remembering “the Ditch”
Thanks to the famous radio spots, anyone in Detroit in that era could tell you that Detroit Dragway was at Sibley and Dix; even if they had never been there.
Re-Entry Rear Engine Streamlined Dragster
The Re-Entry’s supercharged engine was housed behind the driver in a tightly fitting cowl that also enclosed the driver and the rear tires.
Posted in 1966 Also tagged Autorama, drag racing, dragster, historical photos, nostalgia racing, Tom Bonner 4 Comments
Somethin Wild B/G dragster
Somethin Wild is a square back front engine rail, featuring an injected small-block Chevy for power. The car competed in the B/G ranks in the mid 1960s.
Posted in 1966 Also tagged Autorama, drag racing, historical photos, motorsports, nostalgia racing, Tom Bonner Leave a comment
Blown Chevy front-engine Dragster
There was a lot of competition in the NHRA gas dragster classes in 1966, so with out some indicator there is no way to know what was in this car’s fuel tank.
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A/A Cadilliac V-8 Buick V-6
Today a V6 powered race car wouldn’t be exceptional, but there weren’t very many American V6s to choose from in 1966. I assume the engine is a Buick 3800 V6.
Posted in 1966 Also tagged Autorama, Buick, drag racing, historical photos, motorsports, Tom Bonner 2 Comments
The Prussian, Steffey and Rupp Top Fuel Dragster
Last time around, we looked at Maynard Rupp’s Chevoom Funny Car from 1966. Rupp was a busy guy in 1965, as he built the rear-engine funny car between stints of driving the feared Prussian Top Fuel dragster. The Prussian was also on display at the 1966 Autorama. In 1965 the car won the NHRA World [...]
Posted in 1966 Also tagged drag racing, historical photos, nostalgia racing, Tom Bonner, Top Fuel Dragster 2 Comments
Tom’s Nasty Torker: 1960 Ford Galaxie
Even back in 1965, I realized that Tom’s Nasty Torker (TNT, get it?) was a pretty radical race car. Not a funny car or anything like that, but definitely a little extreme.
Posted in 1965, Autoshow Also tagged drag racing, historical photos, nostalgia racing, Tom Bonner 4 Comments
The Ghosts at Sibley and Dix
It was an ordinary looking industrial park, similar to countless others you might find across the country. I drove my rental car into the driveway, then stepped out and looked around me. That’s when I saw the ghosts. The people working in the buildings couldn’t see them, but I could. As a raw breeze brushed [...]
Posted in Looking Back Also tagged Detroit Dragway, drag racing, historical photos, motorsports, nostalgia racing, Tom Bonner 2 Comments
Still car-crazy after all these years
So the plan is to dig out many of these old racing images and display them on this blog. I also have many of my old stories, columns and features, which I will republish here as well.
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