Watch Dustin Corn Make A Pass In His Rear Engine Funny Car At Quaker City Dragway – Neat Car!


Watch Dustin Corn Make A Pass In His Rear Engine Funny Car At Quaker City Dragway – Neat Car!

You have seen it in still photos on these very electronic pages but as of yet we have never actually showed a video of Dustin Corn’s Hi-Jinx rear engined Corvette funny car. The machine has a long history and while that history isn’t exactly decorated we can say that it has survived in a racing capacity longer than any other rear engine funny car in the country. Many of you know the stories about the few and the dangerous rear engine floppers that came to life in the 1970s. Virtually all of those were wrecked or they reside in museums, the corners of dusty shops, etc. This car was originally built in 1971 and it is now powered by an Ohio Crankshaft built 620ci big block Chevy engine. The body is a 1978 Corvette.

Corn sits where the injector hat would normally be coming through the hood and the engine lives where he would normally be found if this were a typical funny car. This run was made at a huge funny car show that was recently held at Quaker City Dragway in Ohio. Our pal Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian shot the video and our other pal Bret Kepner was calling the event. You will hear Bret talk about how just the day before the car had made a completely out of control run that saw the thing get up on two wheels two different times. The reason this run is a solo? Literally no one would run against him after watching the show from the previous day.

There is no such drama on this run and the car makes a nice pass straight down the lane. No, it is not the fastest thing in the world but Corn is sticking with it and sneaking up on the tune. The 8-second elapsed time it lays down here only has a 141mph trap speed attached to it so with the speed bring down like that, it seems like he may have lifted before the finish line.

The line of the video comes from Kepner when he exclaims, “Yesterday this guy almost killed himself and today he is a hero!”

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3 thoughts on “Watch Dustin Corn Make A Pass In His Rear Engine Funny Car At Quaker City Dragway – Neat Car!

  1. Rob

    Is it just me or does any one else think he seems to be sitting WAY forward
    (yes I realize he is sitting/steering in the front) in the roll cage?

    When he backs up most of the helmet appears to be in front of the front hoop.

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