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Mickey poses at Lions in his blown-Ford dragster with NHRA founder Wally Parks before a trip to England in 1963. Thompson was runner-up to Danny Ongais in Top Gas at the Winternationals and was voted No. 11 on NHRA’s all-time top 50 drivers list during its 50th Anniversary in 2001.