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The Evolution of Drag Racing: Don’t Call It a Setback

Posted July 18, 2019 9:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: classic auto drag racing memories

Here at Merc Day on the Muscle Machines Weekly, we couldn’t help spilling about 6 ounces of our Animal-Style fries dressing all over the keyboard when we spied this killer Comet drag car: 6-71-huffed big-block in the setback of all setbacks. Looks like that magnesium blower case is just kissing the front edge of that hand-beaten firewall and we couldn’t love it any more.

And let’s just obsess on all the juicy details in no specific order and tell us what we’re missing:
fiberglass bumper
• pizza-slicer frontrunners (Halibrands?)
• Enderle bugcatcher (showerhead?)
• 392 Chrysler Hemi?
• Dow 7-ed blower pulleys?
• M/T idler bracket setup?
• pie-crust slicks
• handmade, bead-rolled aluminum firewall and inner fenders

A truly unique, mean machine on Hemmings Daily.

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07/19/2019 8:45 AM

Look Pa! I can do a tuneup from the drivers seat!

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07/19/2019 9:50 AM

Looks like he's sitting On the transmission.

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