Back in the days when they had 32 car fueler fields, and line up the fuelers on the track apron and crank them all up at the same time... they did it on the east coast too in Division 1...
All the old top fuelers I saw out here never had starters on them, they where all push started until Lions Drag Strip put in a set of rollers to start the cars on them. The old funny cars started their engine with electric starters spinning the blowers like today, which ended up on all blown cars
I remember helping push back a old top alcholol dragster at Fremont Drag strip at a division 7 points race back in the late 1970s after the burn out before they had to have reversers in them
