70. GENE SNOW

The Fort Worth, Texas, driver is truly one of the great nitro racers of all time. He began racing Funny Car in 1965 and struck paydirt the next year by wheeling his injected ’66 Dart to the Competition title at the NHRA Nationals. The next year, he raced in Super Eliminator at Indy and won that. In 1968, he reportedly ran the first Funny Car 200-mph lap in August of 1968 at Houston, Texas. He went on to a fabulous career in both Funny Car and Top Fuel. He was both the NHRA and AHRA Funny Car World Champ in 1970.  He was the first Funny Car driver over 210 mph, and he was the first NHRA Top Fuel driver to run in the 4's, a 4.990 in 1988. He was also the IHRA Top Fuel World champ in 1987, 1988, and 1991, winning 17 IHRA events overall. He still drives and tunes a competitive AFD in NHRA competition.

71. SOX & MARTIN

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There are those who would argue that Ronnie Sox might have been the best 4-speed racer in the sport’s history; he certainly was one of its most successful “doorslammer” racers. In his career, he won 15 NHRA national events, his first when he took Factory Stock at the 1964 NHRA Winternationals. In 1969 he was the NHRA Super Stock World Champ and followed the next year by winning the NHRA Pro Stock World title. He won the NHRA Nationals twice, grabbing Super Stock in 1969 and Pro Stock in 1971. He was equally effective in IHRA competition. He won 14 national events and won the 1981 IHRA World Pro Stock Championship. From 1968 through 1971, Sox won five straight NHRA Springnationals events; the first three in Super Stock, the last two in Pro Stock.

72. STONE-WOODS-COOK

Stone-Woods-Cook was the most famous team in the history of the AA/Gas Supercharged class. Driver Doug “Cookie” Cook won only one national event, Middle Eliminator at the 1963 NHRA Winternationals, but his races with guys like “Ohio George” Montgomery, “Big

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John” Mazmanian, K.S. Pittman, and Junior Thompson on the match race circuit are a rich part of drag racing legend. In 1967, Cook & Co. moved to the Funny Car class and were successful almost immediately. They won both days of the Bakersfield March Meet, the AHRA Detroit Grand American, and runner-upped at the King of Kings Supercharged Funny Car Invitational In 1968.  Cook retired after being injured in a crash in the Funny Car.