With incredibly rare exception, every drag race fan on the planet has dreamed of driving a nitro powered machine. And we’ve all got ideas and reasons for wanting to drive a Funny Car or Top Fuel Dragster. The question is, which one? Growing up at Fremont Dragstrip and watching Kalitta, Garlits, Muldowney, and more was always a treat. But for me, Snake, Mongoose, and Jungle Jim were the ones I just HAD to be like. I wouldn’t miss the chance to drive either one, but I gotta tell you there is something about a car with a body on it. Plus, I want to see and hear that motor in front of me! And after hanging out with “Fast” Jack Beckman, the 2012 NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Champion on Sunday, the stories are just way too cool and only made me want to drive one even more. But then you go to the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum and look at the old Top Fuel cars, or attend the PRO Winter Warmup and see Brittany Force’s new ride, and it makes you want to get into one of those too. It’s just too much pressure for me! Which one would I choose if I only had one to drive? I don’t know. Do you?
So…If you could only drive one. Would you rather drive a Funny Car, or a Top Fuel Dragster?
Floppers all the way baby!
“Old men and girls drive dragsters”
“Atomic” Al Hoffman
Garlits would kick you with his half foot . . . if he wasn’t so old.
I turned 60 yesterday. So my pick would be…..
The long skinny car’s. Real men drove AA/FD with oil and fire
in your face as you came in to the traps
Not sure i’d want the “plums” behind a nitro-fueled HemiBomb. “Back motor” Top Fuel all the way.
Top Fuel DRAGBIKE!
Spoken like true future organ donor . . . .
Neither. The answer is Pro Stock.
Vintage funny cars.
Funny car for me. Get the best of both, when the body lifts on a funny car you can experience the wind in your face the same as a dragster or a bike
would have to be a front engine AA/FD from 1969-71 era
Nitro !
That sh$t behind me !
Top fuel !
But I don’t think I have the balls to do either one!
Oh that is sad 🙁
I just realized the Force girls have BIGGER ones then me 🙂
I’ve owned and driven many of both and must admit, the funny cars were more fun to drive.
Don Johnson “Beachcomber” now there’s a legend!
I wouldn’t have the Gonads to drive either one because everybody would be laughing their Ass off at me when I finished the run but yeah, definitely a rear engined Top Fuel car, I’d much rather have the fire behind me then in my face!
Pro Stock!
I’m like Grumpy, no where near enough stones for either one. Fuelers are still faster. And that’s the whole point. AA/FD all the way.
I drove front engine top gas dragster, front engine top fuel dragster, rear engine top fuel dragster, and nitro funny car.
For me it’s almost a 50/50 split between front engine and rear engine dragsters…they were the best.
The funny cars were good, but it’s dragsters for me…