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Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Dragster Streamlined for the March Meet


Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Dragster Streamlined for the March Meet

With the March Meet coming this weekend we got a neat press release from our pal Mike Bumbeck regarding the Champion Speed Shop team and their Nostalgia Top Fueler. This car is powered by a small-block Chevy and has been known to terrorize the Hemi-powered rails.

The car is now sporting a streamlined cockpit area. It looks weird, but it’s growing on us.

Look for the official press release after the photos.

Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Dragster

Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Dragster

Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Dragster

Champion Speed Shop Small Block Chevy to Storm March Meet

South San Francisco, CA – The Champion Speed Shop Special is set to run the March Meet at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. The 51st running of the premiere nostalgia drag racing event will mark the official end of a six year hiatus of the legendary nitromethane powered Chevrolet dragster from the nostalgia AA/FD drag racing ranks.

The latest incarnation of the Champion Speed Shop Special continues the tradition of lightweight small block Chevrolet powered dragsters set in motion by Jim McLennan in 1953, and carried on by son Bobby McLennan into the modern era. The Champion Speed Shop Special will be driven by Adam Sorokin, whose own father Mike Sorokin drove The Surfers front engine top fuel dragster in the sixties.

While the small block Chevy is itself an anachronism in the hemi fueled AA/FD field, the Champion Speed Shop Special furthers the innovative evolution of the front engine top fuel dragster with a streamlined carbon fiber canopy that envelops the cockpit.

“The genesis of the car started long ago with cars like the Glass Slipper and other streamliners. If the engine had stayed out front, this is where the class may have gone”, said Bobby McLennan.

The Champion Speed Shop is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information, photos, and videos please visit the Champion Speed Shop.


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