Just watched the NHRA finals at Pomona and the announcers were talking about the Toyota Funny Car of Jerry Toliver. One of the announcers mentioned that back in 1982 a Datsun ran in the Funny Car ranks. It least I think he said Funny Car - maybe Pro Stock?

Anyone know anything about the Datsun that ran in 1982?

 

I heard that also, and can not remember who would have run a Datsun at that time it would have been a Nissan body on the car. Would be kind of cool to locate some photos of it .

Mike

 

Well a google search only brought up one pic. All the caption sez is that Chuck Etchells drove the car. No date or specs.

 

Here is a pic of John Collins 280 funny car

Mike

 

Cool, Mike. I wonder where these cars are today? Hmmm, find one and start running the Nostalgia Funny Car circuit.

Here is another pic of a serious Z drag car - possibly Pro Stock? The only info I have is that it is a 260Z driven by Jeff Sutherland with Muscle Motors sponsorship. If the car's sponsor is the same Muscle Motors that I know of, you can bet the Z is running a Mopar V8.

 

The car could possibly have been a Competition Eliminator car. If the Z wasn't such an aerodynamic slug it would be kind of fun to build up a Comp car around the body .

Back in the late 70's we campiagned the ex American Bandstand top fuel car.
We ran it in B Econo Dragster in the Competition Eliminator catagory. Funny thing was we were one of the last guys to run a front motor car in that class.
Who would have ever known they would have brought back Nostalgic Dragsters

At the time we were running someone was running a rear motored dragster in
Comp Eliminator using an L6 engines .

The Z32 body would make a neat Comp Eliminator car.

Mike

 

I belive that's the Drag Z from ratsun.com (I don't have time to verify right now, I'm at work So, Big Block Chevy would be the power source.

-Lukas