SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

PAGE NINE.

On Sunday. next, two of drag
racing’s. most exciting and
sophisticated vehicles will be’

match-racing at
Dragways.

Ken Martin from Puyallup,
Washington will. be Piloting his
1969 Corvette, powered by a 427
cu. in. super-charged Chev.

Van Isle

engine, against Tigard Sregon s

Kenny Goodel in his 1970 Dodge
Challenger which is powered by a
426 cu. in. super-charged. Dodge
engine.

The Funny Car, drag racing’s
equivalent to oval track racing's
Daytona or Richard Petty Super
Stocks, is constructed on a

chrome-moly tubular chassis.
The engine. is located mid-way

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- over 60 cars expected from the mainland,
- time trials 7 p.m.

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duty drive train components,
utilizes drag slicks from 14 to 16
inches in width to put: the
awesome horsepower on the
ground.

All of this is done with safety
being the number one concern.
The bodies are 'fiber-glass

replicas of current factory
designs weighing from 90 to 125
Ibs., giving the cars a total weight
less than that of a Volkswagen!

The engines in these two cars:

produce from. 1500 to 1700 hor-
sepower at the AXLE. For fuel
they use a highly exotic mixture
of nitro-methane which is
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This fuel alone accounts for about

400 of their horsepower and

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special Freon fire extinguisher
systems on board even though
they are dressed in special fire

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built by Keith Black of California
who is one of the top drag racing
and trans-am engine builders in
North America.

The National record for Funny
‘Cars is currently held by the

team of Whipple and McCulloch
also of Oregon. Their mark for
the 44 mile from a standing start
is 7.19seconds at 211.76 M.P.H. At

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Van Isle the cars will be com-

peting over the % mile due to
short deceleration length at the
strip. However this is where the
action is and they still will attain
speeds of 150 MPH with times a
shade over: 4 seconds.

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competition.

Gates will open on Saturday at
11 am. to 4 p.m. for ‘grudge.
racing and time trials.

On Sunday gates will open at 9
a.m. with the funny cars making
their first round of competition at
1.30 p.m.

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