Nostalgia Funny Car Drag Racing Chrisman's Comet Dragfest 

The fiberglass front bumper flexing hard during the burnout tells the story.

And on nitro! Thank you!

Ummm it's Mercury.

Still a ford dip shit you dont know much about cars do ya

SabreMetalPanzer i understand the chain was nearly 6.5 feet long and difficult to maintain or tyne.

Gear drives were made and used .

They say it was the first funny car

you dont change nothing on this car,you would have your arm amputated at the neck

:-( Sad news.

I think it ran low 9's, maybe high 8's. Probably could have done better but traction was not much of an expertise with nitro kind of power back then. This car was a big smoker on a run.

In nascar to counter the Chrysler hemi first Ford tried with the cammer , a true hemi and also with overhead cams, the reason for the horrendous chain drive system. Nascar stopped them before it even came out and later allowed them with added penalties so Ford did not run them. Then Ford built the semi hemi Boss 429 motor. Regular 429’s are just a canted valve engine. I don’t understand why nascar didn’t just limit Chrysler to their wedge heads to stop all of this, but I guess once the cat was out of the bag maybe it was hard to dial it back on the fans. And they got their hero Petty to be able to dominate for years with that hemi. Different times than today. Nascar can’t ever do much right, a lot of what has worked for them was luck. And now without that luck they are floundering badly.

The 427.cammer was first not the 429.

i think maybe its you who "sucks" as a full time job

YES IT SUCKED !