The car that started it all?

There wasn't any single one car for me, I always loved cars for as long as I can remember. By the time I was 4 (1961) I could tell you the make, model and year of nearly every car on the road and I continued to do that for years afterwards. But what I loved most was the drag cars, especially the early Funny Cars. I begged my dad for what seemed like 3 years to take me to a drag race. When we finally did go we went to a good one too, Jungle Jim, Gas Rhonda, Brutus and a host of others I can't remember now. Those cars belching fire and shaking the ground scared the crap out of me but I was so enthralled and excited it will be forever etched into my memory. I think I was about 8 or 9 then.