AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(Pro or Sportsman)

• Pat Austin (1991 - Topeka, Ks. - wins TA/FC and Top Fuel)
• Tony Bartone (37 straight national event round wins - 1996)
• Bob Glidden (32 straight Nat'l event round wins - 1978)
• Don Garlits
  (Won Gateway Nat'ls AHRA TF straight through from 1977 to 1983)
• Gary Beck (Runs 17 of the lowest TF elapsed times (1982-1983)
• "Nook" Bakewell
  (runs a 7.13, 213.28 in a jet dragster in 1961 at Fontana, Calif.)
• Vic Wilson (runs 5.10/311.41-mph in the "Courage of Australia" rocket at OCIR - Nov. '71)
• Jack McClure (drives a rocket-powered Go-Kart to several speeds over 200-mph, 1970s)
• Ed McCulloch (5 Funny Car wins, 1 Top Fuel at Indy)
• Connie Kalitta/Scott Kalitta (first father-son TF final, 1994 Gators)
• Lucille Lee/Shirley Muldowney
  (first all-woman pro final, 1982 Bakersfield)
• "Slammin' Sammy" Miller
  (3.86 in a quarter-mile at 358-mph at Santa Pod, 1980s w/rocket)

Photo by Tim Marshall

• Rick Stewart (pulled out of car at 214-mph at Bakersfield 1966)
• Bo O'Brochta (runs 7.08 at Ontario in 1980 aboard a fuel Kawasaki)
• Larry McBride (Runs 5.99, 243.11 at Houston on a fuel bike)
• Shirley Muldowney (Becomes the first gal in sports — I said, "SPORTS" — history to stomp the guys in heads-up competition when she wins the 1977 Winston Top Fuel championship.)
• Kitty O’Neill (3.72/412 in a rocket car - 1977)
• Don Prudhomme
  (Wins 7 of 8 1976 NHRA nat'l event FC titles, losing only at Indy)
• Don Prudhomme (Between June 1962 and May 1963, wins 81 of 89 TF heats in G-B-P car)
• Don Nicholson
  (in 1966, "Dyno Don" compiles an incredible match race record - ???)
• Chris Martin (mechanical inepto is coached by Roy Hill to a 5.14, 131.48 1/8-mile shot in a Pro Stock Pontiac Trans Am in Julien, N.C. Word filters through to the Pope about this miracle and Hill is asked if he could resurrect the dead. The date June 6, '91)

GREATEST UPSETS

• Jeff Arend (1996 - Maple Grove, Pa. FC)
• Michael Bartone (1995 - Indy - DNQ wins the show)
• Gary Beck (1972 - Ind. - TF)
• Brissette-Drake-Kelly Brown (1978 - Pomona- TF)
• Dave Condit (1974 - Ontario, Calif - FC)
• Jim Bucher (1973 - Gainesville, Fla. - TF)
• Gary Burgin (1976 - Indy - FC)
• Danny Danell (1983 - Bakersfield - TF)
• Jim Dunn (1972 - Ontario, Calif. - FC)
• Jim Epler (1992 - Pomona - FC)
• Pete Gates (1966 - Super Stock Nat'ls New York Int'l. - FC))
• Bob Gibson (1970 - NHRA Springs. Dallas, Texas - TF)
• Billy Graham (1976 - IHRA Springs. Bristol, Tenn. - TF)
• Marvin Graham (1974 - Indy - TF)
• Sherm Gunn (1984 - Pomona - FC)
• Nando Haase (1965 - Hot Rod C'shps Riverside, Calif. - TF)
• Chuck Harris (1996 - Columbus, Ohio - Pro Stock)
• Jim Head (1984 - Indy FC)
• Bob Hightower (1966 - Irwindale - TF)
• Jim Hundley (1969 - AHRA US Open Rockingham, N.C. - TF)
• Marshall Love (1974 - IHRA US Open Rockingham, N.C. - TF)
• Tony McCallum (1987 - Bristol, Tenn. - FC)
• Billy Meyer (1972 - Orange County Mfgs. FC race)
• Ed Moore - (1982 - AHRA Winters Tucson, Ariz - FC.)
• Ned Ott (1997 - Keystones Maple Grove, Pa. TAD)
• Pete Robinson (1961 - Indy - Top Eliminator)
• K.C. Spurlock (1990 - Pomona - FC)
• Mike Van Sant (1976 - AHRA Winters Tucson, Ariz. - FC)
• Mike Wagoner (1974 - AHRA Winters Phoenix, Ariz. - TF)

BEST HOT ROD SONGS (Rock n/ Roll)

• Drag Strip Riot - New Bomb Turks
• Hot Rod Lincoln - Johnny Bond or Charlie Ryan (take yer pick)
• Jesus Built My Hot Rod - Ministry
• Redline - Foreigner
• Scattershield - The Surfaris
• Transfusion - Nervous Norvous

... and just about anything on the Norton or Estrus record labels.