Gallery: “Dandy Dick” Landy Knows Hurst Shifters

By 1966, the quarter-mile “stockers” had morphed into altered wheelbase extended nose beasts with nitro-burning Hemis stuffed between frame rails. The cars tended to be a little rough, and to many spectators, they looked funny. Thus, the track promoters hung the “funny car” moniker upon them. However, the Chrysler brass was not laughing.

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