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Re: What was the very first Funny Car? #420331 07/28/09 04:40 PM 07/28/09 04:40 PM
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hemi-itis I Live Here Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 12,592 Great Neck,LI,new york	Quote: In 1966 I was 20 years old.I was there to witness it all. Man I AM GETTING OLD WHUTCHU MEAN "GETTING"??? HEMI-ITIS has no cure. My condition is fully BLOWN!!

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? [Re: hemi-itis] #420332 07/28/09 05:17 PM 07/28/09 05:17 PM
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Jeepmon OP master Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 8,094 Sunnyvale, CA	This is what started our conversation (aka argument) about the first funny car.. and to be truthful, I anticipated it to be an easy question to be answered.. http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/featuredvehicles/race_car/1963_jayhawker_plymouth/index.html So continue on with your discussion, I'm enjoying the history lessons.. 73 Duster 360 stroker http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2594657

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Re: What was the very first Funny Car? #420334 07/28/09 06:43 PM 07/28/09 06:43 PM
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B G Racing master Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,910 Eighty Four, PA	Quote: Quote: This is what started our conversation (aka argument) about the first funny car.. and to be truthful, I anticipated it to be an easy question to be answered.. http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/featuredvehicles/race_car/1963_jayhawker_plymouth/index.html So continue on with your discussion, I'm enjoying the history lessons.. Even though it's a 1963 he Jayhawker was built AFTER the factory cars came onto the scene. My 65 AW started life as a 64 SS car after the original interduction of the factory cars. [IMG]http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq21/ajcasini/max_zpsdppwd9km.jpg[/IMG]

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? #420335 07/28/09 10:10 PM 07/28/09 10:10 PM
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8secDart pro stock Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,256 Salisbury North Carolina	These cars are a joke.Frank is just trying to rewrite history so his car is worth millions.These are a long way from the first funny cars. Quote: Dodge Chargers http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_0905_dodge_chargers_drag_team/index.html

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Re: What was the very first Funny Car? #420337 07/28/09 10:27 PM 07/28/09 10:27 PM
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8secDart pro stock Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,256 Salisbury North Carolina	The body did have some half a$$ rework.The wheel base was stock.The cars ran on gas,only one time was something other than gas in the tank.Like I said they were a JOKE.

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? [Re: Jeepmon] #420338 07/30/09 11:09 AM 07/30/09 11:09 AM
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funnycar99 member F Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 29 alabama	1966 was the first year for a true (fiberglass flopper)funny car 64 and 65 were regular cars that were cut up. click the link below to see one. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodge-Cha...5fCarsQ5fTrucks Last edited by funnycar99; 07/30/09 11:12 AM.

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? [Re: Kudakidd] #420339 08/02/09 12:19 AM 08/02/09 12:19 AM
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proshiftcharger pro stock Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,340 Pennsylvania	Quote: Without a doubt, Dyno Don's Exactly. According to a 1984 TV interview "Fabulous Floppers" with Steve Evens from Diamond P Sports, Don Prudome and Kenny Bernstien...Dyno Don built/designed the first ever "Flip Top Funny Car". This was backed with video footage of an interview with Dyno Don. He went on to say they matched raced this car and it went on to win 39 races in a row. This Funny car was a flip top car known as "Eliminator 1" This car was the forerunner of what we know as funny cars today. However it was Gene Snow who introduced the flip top funny car to NHRA. At that time NHRA didnt have a class for Gene Snows Flopper. So they put Gene's Funny car "Rambunctious" into class "C Fuel Dragster" with all the rail jobs and roadsters. Gene beat them up bad in that class. He won the US Nationals two consecutive years before NHRA created the Funny Car class as we know it. Doug

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? [Re: proshiftcharger] #420340 08/02/09 01:33 AM 08/02/09 01:33 AM
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Lil Wedge enthusiast L Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 316 Ohio	I was thinking Gene Snow and if I am remembering correctly that he drove it with 1 hand and had the pushbutton panel mounted where the sideview mirror was and had 1 hand on that? Or did I just imagine that? Also didn't Sachs have a blown 65 comet with the Cammer.Didn't He have blown Mustang prior to the Comet? I remember lots of things, lol Mostly things that only happened in my mind,lol, according to my sister-in-law. Getting old is a lot like getting drunk, nobody faults you if you don't remember,lol

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? [Re: 8secDart] #420341 08/02/09 02:31 AM 08/02/09 02:31 AM
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CrAzYMoPaRGuY I Live Here Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 16,480 Canada	Quote: The body did have some half a$$ rework.The wheel base was stock.The cars ran on gas,only one time was something other than gas in the tank.Like I said they were a JOKE. OK. You need a TIME OUT! Read this in the corner and come back when you are being good..... http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/landys64.html CrAzYMoPaRGuY

Re: What was the very first Funny Car? [Re: CrAzYMoPaRGuY] #420342 08/02/09 02:37 AM 08/02/09 02:37 AM
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CrAzYMoPaRGuY I Live Here Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 16,480 Canada	What about the SuperMustang? That was early 1965 wasn't it? CrAzYMoPaRGuY

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