Old days racing question

[FISHBREATH]

Do you guys remember when Top Fuel and Funny Car went "all Hemi, all the time?" I seem to remember some Chebby and Furd big blocks still running in the very early 1970s.

 

[rmchrgr]

Hemi Hunter AA/FD, BBC.

Cammer power

 

[PFogel]

Fishbreath, there were actually a lot of big block chevys and Ford cammers.

 

[george]

There were guys running Cammers well into the '70s, I have a pic of Larry Gould with a cammer in '76-'77

 

[george]

Now that I am thinking about it, wasnt there some guy back east running a nitro FC with a cammer in the early '90s, built with the Dove Eng. parts??

 

[451Cuda]

Don Prudhomme broke the 6 second barrier in a 427 SOHC dragster.

 

[Demon416]

Here's a 6 part story of the most famous front engine dragster of them all. Even though it was not Hemi powered, it kicked some butt. FISHBREATH: Sorry I don't know the answer to your question, but my guess is sometime in the early 80's. Hopefully someone here will know for sure.


http://www.hemihunterracing.com/part1.shtml

 

[FISHBREATH]

Boy, that's much longer than I thought. For the life of me, I just did not remember any non-Hemis going into the 70s. I remember Keith Black was casting aluminum Hemis in the early '70s. Maybe Ed Pink, too. I guess the old iron blocks were untenable by the end of the 70s.

 

[george]

Maybe you need to re-phrase the question to something like "winning national events with non-hemis". Then the answer would be mid-seventies, Jim Bucher (BBChevy) being the last.

 

[FISHBREATH]

Good point, George.