’80s Firebird Funny Car Body For Sale

Here's a vintage eighties Pontiac Firebird Funny Car body for sale. The seller purports that the body was one of the last Blue Max Top Fuel Funny Car bodies used by Raymond Beadle (unverified). This fiberglass body would be great for anyone wanting to run a nostalgia funny car and would look great painted in the old Blue Max color scheme. The starting bid is only $1,000. (updated 2/14/08 - no longer listed for sale) Here are some other Funny Cars for sale on eBay though.

 

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Winter Rod and Speed Show to benefit racer

The Winter Rod and Speed Show, a benefit event, is slated for Jan. 5 at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center. The indoor show will feature show cars, street rods, race cars, exotics and even a hydroplane.

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New chapter for Antron

Story by topfuelphotos.net

I had the chance to talk with Antron Brown as he and the crew were
getting ready to start testing at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, FL
and got his thoughts on racing his top fuel dragster. Antron,31, who’s
hometown is in chesterfield, N.J. has 16 wins all of them coming from
PSM, 33 Career final rounds. His best E.T. [...]

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Tags: Antron, Antron Brown, Brown, car, dragster, Gainesville, race, racing, Top Fuel

Local Dragster Beats National Speed Record (Simcoe.com)

On a picture perfect October afternoon in Rockingham, North Carolina, a crowd numbering in the thousands piles around a track that's been known to make or break the dreams of many drag racers who dared to unleash their motorized steeds on the quarter-mile track.

Through a liquid wall of heat escaping the rubber-stained asphalt, there, at the starting line of the quarter-mile track, sit two drivers...

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Season comes to an end?

As the season ended, many of the drivers were getting ready for next year to start up. With a strong turn out on the last test n tune, there was lots of action and a lot of familiar faces at the track. Tom, who was badly burned in a Wednesday night test n tune [...]

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MILLICAN RATES TEST SUCCESSFUL

First major test for 2008 yields positive outlook

Clay Millican rarely lifts early on a good pass but for some reason, he lifted early on his best run of testing over the past few days at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Florida.
Millican still managed a 4.59 elapsed time at 332 miles per hour. That was his [...]

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Harris completes Top Fuel licensing runs in Gainesville

Jessie Harris

Former jet-car racer Jessie Harris, a 23-year-old from Rome, N.Y., completed the necessary runs to earn her Top Fuel license Thursday at Gainesville Raceway in central Florida. With former champ Frank Hawley and Top Fuel racers Clay Millican and Bobby Lagana Jr. looking on, Harris ended the day with a 4.66 at 314 mph [...]

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Ford and NHRA team up on safety

(Thanks to NHRA.COM)

Accelerating safety development in the sport of drag racing, the NHRA and Ford Racing jointly announced today that all cars in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes will be outfitted with the Ford Racing “Blue Box” crash sensors for the 2008 season.
“Ford, like the NHRA, is committed to continuously improving safety. [...]

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