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70s Funny Cars: Circular 47

Text by Danny White

Ezra Boggs was a funny machine racer from Oklahoma. Boggs raced funny cars from coast to coast during the years 1969 to 1985. The kickoff funny car Ezra raced was the Colt 45 motorcar of the Martin Brothers. The Martin Brothers were the third owners in the line of cars bearing the Colt 45 name. The first owners were the successful Ingram and Davis squad out of California who built the first Colt 45 in 1966 to race in the NHRA AA/A course. The team and then raced early funny cars with the blown steel body car. Davis and Ingram sold the car to Frank Reinauer, who bought the car to match race in the Oklahoma area.

Reinauer extended the forepart stop 24 inches and replaced the pocket-sized cake with a 396 Chevy. The car never handed well so Reinauer had local funny car racers Gitthens and Allen build a new chassis from 2 x 4" square tubing. A new '69 Mustang body was ordered from Ron Pellegrini's Fiberglass, Ltd., store outside Chicago. Frank drove the new machine a couple of times just still did not like the feel of it. He sold the motorcar to swain Oklahomans Don and Jack Martin and Reinauer asked Ezra to drive the car for the new owners. Boggs drove the 480 cubic inch Chevy powered Mustang for two years with best times of seven.lxx at 198 in 1970. (Photo courtesy of Ezra Boggs and www.mobydickaafc.com; info from Ezra Boggs and Draglist files)

Here is a Corvette funny car that beat the Corvette Expletive. Leonard Christianson ran the Northwest Nite Corvette out of Washington with his brother. The 392 Chrysler Hemi ran from 1968 to 1971 with a known best of vii.61, 185. The torso for the Northwest Nite was used by Jim Nourdhaugen in the late-nineties on a late model alcohol funny automobile chassis. (Photograph courtesy of Terry Kong; information from Draglist files)

Here is another "Super" funny car from the seventies. The Michigan-based Super Camaro is unrelated to the southern-based Super Camaro of Frank Huff & Clare Sanders. The Michigan Super Camaro was owned by Ray Gallagher and Perry Wyatt from the Detroit suburb of Lincoln Park. Famed Michigan chassis architect Tom Smith of Wolverine Race Cars built the Camaro to replace the team�s Super Comport Barracuda. The Camaro featured a 427 Chevrolet backed by a Hemi- three speed built by Perry Wyatt. The team split later on racing the 1970 season when Ray Gallagher quit driving to build the first of the Trader Ray series of Mustangs driven by Dwane Ong. Wyatt retired from racing just not earlier getting the Super Camaro to run a 7.83, 200.89. (Photo past Gerry Kalenjecki courtesy of Perry Wyatt Jr.; info courtesy of Perry Wyatt Jr. and Draglist files)

Dick Lagno and Dan Sachs ran this ex-Dick Harrell/Clyde Morgan Camaro out of New Jersey in 1971. The car started life as Morgan'south Dick Fletcher-chassised "Experimental Javelin� before Clyde teamed upwards with Harrell mid way through 1970. Lagno only raced the machine for about six months in the Northeast. This body ended upwardly on the Don Hulse Camaro in the early-mid 1970s. (Photo courtesy of Large Bob Snyder; info from Dennis Doubleday and Draglist files)

Casey Powell is known by younger drag racing fans as the begetter of sometime fuel racer Christen Powell, but Casey made quite a name racing dragsters and funny cars himself. The Dead End Kids funny automobile that Powell drove for Red Lang and Jerry Busse was featured in Circular 11. The New Yorker Plymouth Cuda came before that car. Powell, Ed Akam, and Fred O'Rourke out of Port Washington, New York, owned the cast iron 426 Hemi powered machine. The New Yorker featured a transitional style of chassis that would soon be outdated, but also used the 12 spoke American mags used more often than not past altered racers. Casey raced the machine until 1971, when he moved to a newer Expressionless End Kids machine. Powell concluded his driving career in the Clark & Co. Top Fueler in 1973. (Photo courtesy of Big Bob Snyder; info from Dennis Doubleday and Draglist files)

Kenny Achs began racing Acme Fuel dragsters in Saskatoon, Canada, in 1967. Then, similar several other dragster drivers of the era, switched to funny cars. Achs began racing the Midwest Express Contrivance Challenger out of his Mid-Westward Automotive shop in 1971. Kenny later renamed the auto the Black Sheep Squadron under the sponsorship of the Black Sheep Boutique. Achs retired from racing when business concern commitments began to accept likewise much fourth dimension. Kenny was recently inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame where he has his 1967 Top Fuel Dragster on brandish. (Photograph courtesy of Vern Scholz; info from Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame and Draglist files)

Here is a very obscure funny car racer running in 1973 at Beeline Raceway in Arizona. It is idea to exist Bob Williams from Springfield, Illinois (note the shoe polished 346 competition number on the dorsum window). Williams besides had a '70 Challenger which was thought to be Tom Hoover's ex-White Bear Dodge. That car but made a few passes and, plain, then did the Mach I since it was seen very rarely. Lilliputian is known nearly Bob or his funny cars. According to Draglist files, Williams ran a known best 6.73, 206.72 in 1973. (Photo courtesy of Big Bob Snyder; info from Bret Kepner and Draglist files)

The �New Original Bad Bob� Dodge Sprint AA/FC had to have one of the longest names ever in funny automobile racing. Californian Bob Williams stepped away from racing Top Fuelers to field this largely forgotten funny car in 1976. Clarence Bailey parked his own Male monarch Boogaloo funny auto to drive the Donovan Hemi powered Bad Bob machine. The team raced during the 1976 flavour before putting up the car for auction in Drag News. Williams went back to racing Height Fuelers and Bailey went back to racing the King Boogaloo. (Photo courtesy of Large Bob Snyder; info from Dennis Doubleday and Draglist files)

The Chicago Burn series of racecars has been around for more than 3 decades now. Mike Faser and Ken Hoctor bought the Monza from Dick Bourgeois to supercede a very short Vega that the pair raced on the UDRA circuit. Faser drove the Monza at offset on alcohol with the UDRA circuit but presently switched over to nitro. The Romeo Palamides congenital car featured a stock stroke cast iron block 426 Chrysler Hemi that was ideal for match racing. The Chicago Burn Monza was raced for several years and as a thing of fact the chassis is still used by Faser today in the Chicago Burn AA/FA with a new front end half! (Photograph courtesy of Ray-Mar Photos; info from Ken Hoctor and Draglist files)

Chuck Flores raced Pinnacle Fuelers all the way from the fifties into the seventies. The Northern California based racer took a diversion from racing fuelers when he built this Monza. The swoopy Chevy was standard fare of the twenty-four hour period with a tardily model Hemi for power. Flores did not race the Monza for long, going dorsum to racing fuelers to stop out his long career. (Photo courtesy of Big Bob Snyder; info from Dennis Doubleday and Draglist files)

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