Front engine dragster
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The front-engine dragster is a type of racing car purposely built for drag racing. Commonly known as a "rail", "digger", or "slingshot", it is now considered obsolete, and is used only in nostalgia dr
Eddie Hill's 1966 front-engine dragster
A 1958 Top Fuel rail, on display at the California Automobile Museum
Hot rod
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Hot rods are typically American automobiles that have been rebuilt or modified with larger or more powerful engines optimized for speed and acceleration. One commonly cited description defines a hot r
Front engine dragster
…nostalgia drag racing. Wheelbases ranged from 97 to 225 inches (2,464 to 5,715 mm). The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters…
3-window highboy Deuce coupé with a traditional chop—dropped front axle, sidepipes, bugcatcher scoop (with Mooneyes cover) over dual quads on a tunnel ram—as well as less-traditional shaved door handles and disc brakes
A 1923 Ford T-bucket in the traditional style with lake headers, dog dish hubcaps, dropped "I" beam axle, narrow rubber, and single 4-barrel, but non-traditional disc brakes
1932 3-window with a classic-style flame job and Moon tank, reminiscent of Chapouris' California Kid
A picture from 1916 of a Ford Model T converted into a speedster.