"Mongoose" - Atlanta 1988

[NONE]

Looks like he broke on this run.

MEMORIES.

 

[Bullet]

Looks like he broke on this run.

MEMORIES.

That Corvette Funny car body had to be the ugliest of them all.

Love the 'Goose though!

 

[fifty50]

Loved that car,it actually looked like a Corvette,unlike the rocketships today. Thanks for the memory!

 

[max]

The year was 1987 that is Ronnie Swearingen and Dee Gant pushing him back. Take a close look at the top of the injector, it backfired on the burnout.

 

[Big Al]

Hey Brian, Allen Meyer here, looks like you are correct. This was right before I went to work for Goose. During this time period if you will remember we were only allowed to have 2 blowers per weekend, because it would bang the blower just off the starting line. When those were gone we were done. It went on for a few events and the problem ended up being the fuel tank was built wrong. Once we changed it everything went well. That was the first real paid job I had drag racing and it was awesome.

 

[FC138fan]

Loved that car,it actually looked like a Corvette,unlike the rocketships today. Thanks for the memory!

In my opinion, I also think the cars of that era - late 80's early 90's looked the coolest. I know tons of people think the opposite, but I guess because that was when I was a kid and I thought those cars were so cool, they just stuck in my head as cool looking cars.

I remember the early and mid 80's they had a couple of funnycars going around the ushra arena truck pull deal, and that red coors car was one of the loudest cars to pull the sled (even though they pulled them running alcohol).

 

[Nunz]

Everyone has different opinions, but I liked the C4 Vette body on FCs. They certainly still looked like the production Vettes of that era.

 

[Bullet]

Everyone has different opinions, but I liked the C4 Vette body on FCs. They certainly still looked like the production Vettes of that era.

I think that they are great looking street cars, I just think that they weren't very pretty as a Funny Car, or any Drag Car really.

I did love the Funny Cars that looked like real cars though.

What we have today is the price of performance, we can't all have our cake and eat it too.

 

[kd]

I feel those vettes were all part of that "swoopy" era in the 70's when all the floppers had fender/hood bubbles, and guys like Dale Creasy Sr. and Kenny Goodell to name a couple, had their rear window top "bubbled" to get the car "low-slung" too!...Damn I miss those kinds of Floppers...................

 

[Mooseman]

Looks like he broke on this run.

MEMORIES.

Anyone else notice the giant hole in the injector hat .

 

[none]

Another shot of 'Goose. Springs - '76



(Thanks for the help Wayne...)

 

[Bullet]

Another shot of 'Goose. Springs - '76



(Thanks for the help Wayne...)

Love the "tight gentleman's perm" the 'Goose is sporting!!

That looks a lot like a scene out of the movie American Nitro.

 

[d'kid]

Last good looking 'Vettes were Invader, Hellfire, Beach City, Gene Conway, lil' John Lombardo, Mike Mitchell, '69-'71 were where it was at in both AA/FC and AA/GS... oh, and the Fugitive Wheel Stander...

Add: Fiberglas Trends, American Bandstand... (Marv, Don Hampton) Kirby's... too many to name...

d'kid