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 [...]
This is Chevoom, the rear engined funny car created by Top Fuel star Maynard Rupp. The car might look like an ordinary ’66 Chevelle, but you will find a nitro burning blown Chrysler in the back seat.
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.
The earliest photos in my automotive collection date to 1965. I shot this photo at a long-forgotten car show I conned my parents into taking me to. The car is a 1963 Chevy Impala and it apparently had a 327 small block under the hood
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 [...]
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.
