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JOHN KIMBLE, TOP FUEL The Compton, Calif., trucking company owner really rumbled in Top Fuel on the West Coast. Kimble had no budget outside of his wallet, but hauled ass regardless. Kimble’s big claims to fame were semi-final appearances at the Winternationals and Bakersfield races. His best elapsed time was a 5.79 with a top speed approaching the 250-mph mark. ERIC REED, FUEL COUPE
TIM WOODS, AA/GS
Stone-Woods-Cook. Does that strike a familiar chord? The late Tim Woods owned Woods Construction at the hard scrabble corner of 43rd and Broadway in south central Los Angeles and used his play money to field the sport’s greatest match-race AA/Gas Supercharged Willys of all-time. "Ohio George" Montgomery may have won more NHRA national events, but Tim, Fred Stone, and driver Doug Cook ran the match race world (with some gaps) between 1961 and 1966. Woods ran the first 9-second time in A/GS competition at San Gabriel in 1962 and got the better of the great "Big John" Mazmanian’s Willys in the Lions and Fontana races of the middle 1960s. Woods and his partners were the first black-owned race team to win an eliminator in any hot rod association competition, when Doug Cook drove their blown Olds powered ‘41 Willys to Middle Eliminator honors at the 1963 NHRA Winternationals. The Stone-Woods-Cook team entered Funny Car in 1967 winning Bakersfield and the AHRA Grand American in Detroit that year, and match raced through 1973.
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Reed
came from Chino Hills, Calif., and looked like another rich kid with
dad’s money who fashioned himself as a racer. That was not true.
He got into Funny Car in 1988 and in 1989 went out and ripped. Lance
Larsen and later Larry Meyer got his car competitive and Reed enjoyed
his finest moment at the 1989 NHRA Fram Nationals at Atlanta Dragway
where he runner-upped to Mike Dunn. A few months later, he won National
DRAGSTER’s Upset of the Year award when he knocked off the
heavily sponsored Budweiser King of Kenny Bernstein in the first round
of the Autolite Nationals at Sears Point Int’l Raceway in July.
Reed was out of the picture by 1990.