For those diehard enthusiasts that lined the Armco barriers of the local strips in the 1970s, merely mentioning the name Chi-Town Hustler brings back colorful memories of a series of high-performance, solid-gold, nitromethane-burning, ground-pounding Dodges that executed crowd-pleasing 1000-foot burnouts. Former Super Stock racers John Farkonas, Austin Coil, and Pat Minick joined forces in 1967 to campaign a nitro-fueled Barracuda funny car.

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