This Hooker Headers ad is from the July 1971 Car Craft magazine. It depicts “Dandy” Dick Landy’s hard-leaving Pro Stock Challenger launching from the starting line while he left behind his trademark cigar. For those who never saw Landy race or had an opportunity to meet him in person, he always had an unlit cigar clinched between his teeth. Therefore, as the ad mentions, for him to give up his cigar instead of his Hooker Headers, he must have loved the performance provided by Hooker.

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