6.99 on 85%

[TopFuel@Lions]

That is what Don Prudhomme ran in Lou Baney's "Shelby Super Snake" at the 67 Springnationals at Bristol. The 1st legit six for a S.O.H.C. engine .Ok Cliff, time for a search and repost,lmao.


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[Cliff]

Wow, 6.99 on 85%, and Bristol is not exactly sea level. I think the first legit "6" was John Mulligan at Carlsbad in 1966, smoking the tires. But 1967 was the year you started seeing 6 second runs.

Shelby Super Snake – Prudhomme Turns Back the Clock

The year was 1967. The Chrysler hemi was king of the drag strip and “slingshot” Top Fuel dragsters, which put the driver behind a nitro-burning time bomb, were all the rage. But there was a three-year period when drag racing’s poster boy Don “The Snake” Prudhomme went the opposite direction of the v

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