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Video: Watch A Dragster With Twin Blown Hemis Smoke The Tires All The Way Down The Strip At Beaver Springs


Video: Watch A Dragster With Twin Blown Hemis Smoke The Tires All The Way Down The Strip At Beaver Springs

Twin engine dragsters are some of the most iconic and appealing machines of old school racing. When NHRA banned the use of nitromethane, gasoline was the only fuel that racers had access to. When guys thought that they had reached the edge of the performance envelope with a single engine, they added another. There are a slew of famous twin engine dragsters from Eddie Hill’s double blown Pontiac powered machine to the king of the top gas hill in the John Peters owned, “Freight Train” and fans loved them for obvious reasons. The sheer wretched excess of seeing two supercharged engines on a frail little chassis got everyone’s blood pumping. Newsflash…it still works today and this video is proof!

Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian shot the below video at the 2012 Jalopy Showdown which was contested on the strip at Beaver Springs Dragway in Pennsylvania. We’ve showed you some of her other videos from that event here on BangShift but this one is cool on multiple levels. Firstly, it rules because there’s a twin hemi powered dragster featured. Secondly it is cool because it depicts a scene that could be right out of the mid 1960s. The dominance of the twin engine Top Gas dragsters ended when racers figured out that flyweight cars with smaller engines could actually beat the monstrous twins. Here you’ll see the twin dragster taking on a little small block rail. Time travel!

Press play below to see what happens when a driver lays the lumber to a pair of hemi engines and pie crust slicks!


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