Stop in for a cup of coffee
I worked with a guy who claimed to be a Ramcharger and raced one of those 241 Hemis in a rail...
He set the record for the longest ET for the quarter mile in his class and that episode caused NHRA to change the rules... So his record will never be broken...
Here's the story:
He was at the drag strip and his brother and brother's friend were there... He needed to walk away from his car for a little bit and asked his brother and friend to watch his car... When he got back his brother and friend were not there... When his race came up, he started the car and went to the starting line... His opponent had an issue with his car at the last minute and couldn't make the race, so Pat had to make the run alone as a single to qualify for the next round.... The rule back then is that the car and the driver had to cross the finish line at the end of the quarter mile to qualify...
So he's at the starting line and the christmas tree lights go down and he takes off... The car stalled as someone loosened the distributor hold down bolt when the car was left unattended... This caused the distrubutor to turn and loose timing when under load when he took off... (He didn't do any burnouts since it was a solo run...) Pat then gets out of his car and pushes it all the way down the drag strip by himself... (He actually had a video tape of it and loaned it to me to watch...) He really did it, as he was very short, (I don't think he was 5 foot tall - he was so short...) It was him in the video as the guy pushing the dragster down the strip was very short also...
Since it took so long for him to push the car down the strip by himself, the officials then changed the rules to the driver automatically goes on to the next round if the opponent is unable to race...