Southern California Funny Cars - Couverture rigide

Reyes, Steve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1540256863 ISBN 13 : 9781540256867

Editeur : Arcadia Pub (Sc), 2023

Synopsis

Southern California was the birthplace of organized drag racing, with the first organized race held at the Santa Ana airport in 1949 and the subsequent founding of the National Hot Rod Association in 1950. Over the next decade and a half, the dragster became the king of the quarter mile on Southern California drag strips. In 1964, veteran dragster owner/driver Jack Chrisman had an idea for something different to grace Southern California's drag strips. It was not a dragster but a stock-bodied race car using nitromethane for fuel in a supercharged engine. With the help of Gene Mooneyham, Mercury's Fran Hernandez, and sponsor Helen Sachs, Chrisman put together the world's first nitro-burning "funny car." It was a steel stock-bodied Mercury Cyclone with a supercharged 427 Ford engine running on pure nitromethane. Chrisman started the evolution that soon turned stock steel-bodied cars into fiberglass-bodied tube chassis funny cars. Southern California drag racers began to lead the way for racers all over the United States in the new funny car class.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1540256863
• ISBN 13: 9781540256867
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 130
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• Personne responsable: non disponible