The front engine “slingshot” dragster was designed by Mickey Thompson in 1954, to focus the weight of the car at the rear tires for traction. As horsepower increased & tire design became better, the slingshot became difficult to control & hazardous to the driver, (who sat astride the wildly rotating flywheel/clutch assembly & directly behind the volatile Roots blower & nitromethane injection system). After a hospitalizing gearbox explosion that cut his car in two pieces, Don Garlits debuted the

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