65. LLOYD SCOTT

Scott drove one of the great weird cars of all time, “the Bustle Bomb,” a dragster which featured a Cadillac motor in front and an Oldsmobile in the rear. Weird or not, Scott was the first driver over 150 mph with a 151.07 at the 1955 World Series of Drag Racing. A week later, he entered the NHRA Nationals at Great Bend, Kansas, and ran the first Hot Rod Association 151.00 mph. The ’55 season was about all Scott had. He ran a 152.02 at San Fernando and then pretty much disappeared from the scene.

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66. SHIRLEY SHAHAN

Shahan will always be a part of drag racing history because of her Stock Eliminator win at the 1966 NHRA Winternationals. She raced Super Stock and even Pro Stock, but never took another big win again.

67. LEE SHEPHERD

Shepherd, a former winning NHRA Sportsman racer, began Pro Stock racing in 1976 and immediately struck big by winning the 1976 NHRA Cajun Nationals when it was a showcase event. He went on to win 29 NHRA national events and four World Championships. In IHRA competition, he won nine national events and two World titles. In 1983 and 1984, he was both the NHRA and IHRA Pro Stock World Champion. He was killed in a testing accident in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in early 1985.

68. MIKE SOROKIN

Mike Sorokin hooked up with Tom Jobe and Bob Skinner in 1964 and the “Surfers” were born. The team frequently won weekend shows in Southern California, especially at San Fernando Raceway. The team had their biggest year in 1966 when they won the Bakersfield March Meet and set the then best elapsed time for the sport at 7.34. They then toured the car and went through some of the toughest competition available. With the exception of a best-of-three loss to Marvin Schwartz, they went undefeated, winning big match races like the Rockford 500. After the U.S. Nationals, they sold their engines to Roland Leong and dissolved the team. Sorokin drove other cars afterward including Leong’s “Hawaiian II” and Tony Waters’ dragster. It was in Waters’ entry that Sorokin lost his life at Orange County in December of 1967.

69. MIKE SNIVELY

One of the most overlooked drivers in history. Snively earned most of his fame at the wheel of Roland Leong’s “Hawaiian.” On October 10, 1964, Snively ran the first 200-mph pass in a single-engine, Chevy-powered dragster (Bill Martin’s 400 Jr.), clocking 201.34 mph at Fontana, and was Top Fuel runner-up in the Scotty’s Muffler dragster to Bob Sullivan and Ronnie Goodsell at the AHRA Winternationals. In 1966, he won both the Winternationals and Indy Nationals Top Fuel titles and followed the next year with a win at the Bakersfield March Meet, the Hot Rod Magazine Championships, swept all three days of the Rockford 500, and won the Mr. USA Invitational. The 1968 season was highlighted by Snively’s winning the big New York Smokers Meet. At the 1972 NHRA Supernationals, Snively ran the first hot rod association “five” with a 5.97 in “Diamond” Jim Annin’s dragster. Snively got into a Funny Car in 1970. He drove the Whipple & Mr. Ed Satellite to wins at the IHRA Pro-Am Nationals and the Dallas Longhorn Nationals. He commited suicide in 1974.