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CHASSIS CHANGES
With an influx like this, the phenomenon of a Funny Car chassis with a Fuel Altered body was the standard set-up by the 1980s. The Fuel Altereds could always use an injection of new talent and with Funny Car owners willing to switch bodies, the class' appearance transformed.

Moore commented, "In the late 1970s, we had a rule that there could be only a 25-percent engine setback at the maximum to run Fuel Altered, so there was no such thing as a modern Funny Car chassis then. I was involved with one of the first ones. I had Jerry Campbell (of Race Car Productions) build a 125-car-inch car for us, but that 25-percent rule messed us up. The car wouldn't leave the line that well. Sometime in, I'm guessing the, early 1980s, the rules were relaxed and you could run a Fuel Altered with a Funny Car chassis. Lindsay, Fassl, a number of guys jumped in at that point."

Even with the Funny Car chassis, the Fuel Altereds had to fight an uphill battle. For one thing, if they ran only 12 dates a year and six were at non-NHRA tracks they had a problem. NHRA's National DRAGSTER covered only NHRA tracks and AHRA's Drag World was little more than a 12-page tout sheet. Drag News had been dead for six years, so they had major exposure problems. As Moore put it, "We couldn't get any ink."

Marc Seivers blazes the hides in the "the Mob" Fiat Topolino. Photo by Jeff Burk.

As time moved on, more and more drivers dropped out. Moore switched permanently to "the Mob" Top Fueler in 1988, tipping Mark Sievers, who would replace him in Lindsay's Fuel Altered. Harrison, Aleman, and Shumake retired, and Higley moved up to Funny Car permanently by the mid-1990s.