When I was a kid, back in the late 50's, Walt Knoch was one of my heroes. He owned a Chrysler-powered '39 Fiat that I wouldn't have driven on a bet. I watched in awe as he took out the Green Monster for Top Eliminator one Sunday at Detroit Dragway. He ran 9.75 and 144 mph, which I thought was absolutely great. I doubt that they were running nitro in 1960. Below you'll see a run by a later car. I was at the drags with friends and racing my mom's '54 Olds 88, then a 60 Chevy, and dad's '59 and '60 Cadillacs. ; ) "Unhook the power steering." - Tom. LOL
I found a website that is great for some 1/4-mile trivia, nostalgia, or whatever you can make of it.
The website is draglist.com
Here's an excerpt, in the order I chose. To see the entire list, I guess you'd have to glance at the site and pick a category. I went for the Fuel Altereds.
The Drag Racing List
All-Time Quickest Fuel Altereds
www.draglist.com
RANK ET MPH DRIVER ENTRY ENG MODEL CLAS ST YEAR
107 7.530 169.07 Jim Carter Jungle Jim JP-1 48 Fiat AAFA AU 1989
108 7.545 183.28 Walt Knoch Walt's Puffer Chry 48 Fiat AAFR MI 1968
NOW LOOK AT THIS GUY:
1 5.293 272.00 Ron Fassl Pepsi Thunder KB 23 Model T AAFA AZ 2004
Can you imagine? LOL
I'll stick with my TGP, but I may have to go out and see some of this modern drag racing action. : )
Oops, I see the site is more complicated than I thought. I found my list through Google search. Here's the link to that specific page:
http://www.draglist.com/lists/faq32.txt
draglist.com website has a lot to offer but is more complicated than I'd expected after the seeing the page that Google Had given me a link to.
Sorry about that. : )