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by popular demand (ok, we got one e-mail asking where this page
went) a look back at different versions of cars and drivers we've
already featured...
 Delaware's
Joltin' Joe Jacono's ex-Mazmanian "Brief Encounter"
Cuda pictured at Maple Grove, circa 1971. This car later went
on to become an A/EA still running the Cuda body. Jacono's follow-on
"Rollin' Stoned" flopper was featured in Round 1. (JW
Last Photo)
 Currently one of the
top runners in the nitro funny car ranks thanks to his long association
with John Force, Gary Densham is pictured in one of his early
funny car efforts from the early 70s when he was confining his
efforts to SoCal. The Mustang body Densham is currently using
adds one more body style to the long list he has employed over
the years; arguably holds the record for the most different styles
utilized during the course of one's career. For more on Densham,
see Round 9. (Photo courtesy of Tim Hannaseth)
 Photographed
in the fall of 75 at Lewiston Dragway in Montana is Bill Spevacek's
Dart F/C sporting a "Just Married" message in the rear
window. Spevacek lost a best-of-three match race to Twig Zeigler,
ran a best of 7.16/205 which reset the track's MPH record. Zeigler's
best was 7.11/198. Shortly after this photo was taken car burned
at the NHRA Supernationals. Spevacek was featured in Round 16.
(Photo by Rick Howard)
Pictured is the 78 version of the Chi-Town
Hustler in a very uncharacteristic Ford, not Dodge, shell. Pete
Williams drove the Chi-Town Hustler Mustang II as did Denny Savage.
Car was sold at the end of the season, ran as Drastic Plastic
through 79, early 80s, while the Hustler returned to a more appropriate
Dodge body. In 1980 Frank Hawley took over reins of the Hustler,
went on to win the 82 NHRA World Championship. To find out more
about the Hustler, see Round 6. (Photo courtesy of Dave Milcarek)
 From
the early 70s comes the St. Louis based team of the Jokerst Bros.
"Mr. Sinister" Rat motivated Camaro was later leased
by Don Zoellner and campaigned as an all black no-name flopper
through the mid-70s. Zoellner was featured on Round 13 of the
site, the Jokerst Bros were highlighted in Round 12. (Photo courtesy
of Don Eckert)
 Larry
Fullerton's last Trojan Horse Mustang, circa 1979. Story goes
that the car was destroyed at an outlaw track in Alabama in 1980
when it hit a telephone pole that "blocked" a turnoff
and burned to the ground because the track had no fire fighting
equipment! Fullerton was highlighted in Round 2. (Photo and info
courtesy of David Hapgood)
 Pictured is Lew Arrington's
last Brutus funny car, the ex-Nichols & Oxner Charger run
out of Fred Forkner's Atlantic Speed Center in Delaware circa
1974. Arrington was one of the charter funny car members with
a GTO in the mid-60s. Mustang bodied car followed in 71... Capt
America rocket F/C was Arrington's last effort in the mid-70s.
Arrington was featured on Round 1. (Photo courtesy of Drag Racing
Memories)
Probably
the most photographed of the Pisano cars, this Camaro was involved
in a well documented crash at Ontario in the fall of 1970 at the
NHRA Supernationals. Photo in National Dragster of the car just
before the crash probably stated it best: "The ill-fated
Camaro was a crowd pleaser in it's short but exciting career."
Pisano & Matsubara, while one of the most popular, competitive
cars in SoCal, was also among the most crash prone through the
mid-70s. For more on the Pisano entries see Round 10. (Ray Mann photo, courtesy
of Geoff Stunkard's Quartermilestones.com)
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