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The museum was created by a group of long-time NHRA staff members and led by founder Wally Parks, for whom the museum was renamed on Wally Parks' ninetieth birthday. The presenting sponsor of the museum is the Automobile Club of Southern California. Steve Gibbs, now a retired vice-president of NHRA, led the team that reconditioned a WPA ...
Chapouris began his hot rodding career in the 1950s in Southern California, where he was a member of the Vintage Tin Hot Rod Club. [2] He is best known for the '34 Ford 3-window The California Kid, featured on the cover of Custom Rod (along with a similar coupé built by Jim Jacobs) [2] in November 1973 and in the movie of the same name in 1974. [1]
The 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Season was announced on September 16, 2021. [ 1] It was the 67th season of the National Hot Rod Association 's top drag racing competition. The NHRA will have 22 Top Fuel and Funny Car events, 19 Pro Stock events, and 15 Pro Stock Motorcycle events.
October 12, 2012. (2012-10-12) (aged 79) Cassville, Missouri, U.S. [2] Occupation (s) Hot rod builder, actor. Norman "Norm" Grabowski (February 5, 1933 – October 12, 2012) was a Polish-American hot rod builder and actor. The heavy-set crew cut -wearing Grabowski appeared in minor roles in many films produced by Albert Zugsmith and Walt Disney.
Goldenrod is an American streamliner land speed racing car which held the wheel-driven land speed record from 1965 to 1991. It was owned by Bob "Butch" and Bill Summers, of Ontario, California. Bob Summers drove the car to set the land speed record. The car is powered by four fuel injected Chrysler Hemi engines mounted inline and created a ...
4 Star (Gilt-Edge) Jesse Lee "Arkie" Shibley (September 21, 1915 – September 7, 1975), [1] was an American country singer who recorded the original version of "Hot Rod Race" in 1950. The record was important because "it introduced automobile racing into popular music and underscored the car's relevance to American culture, particularly youth ...
Burnout: Championship Drag Racing, also known as simply Burnout, is a video game developed by MediaTech West and published by Bethesda Softworks for MS-DOS, released on March 20, 1998. [3] [4] [5] A Player's Choice Edition was released in September 1998 [6] for both DOS and Microsoft Windows. Burnout was licensed by the Hot Rod magazine.
Shirley Muldowney. Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as " Cha Cha " and the "First Lady of Drag Racing ", is an American auto racer. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and ...