The front-engine dragster is a type of racing car purposely built for drag racing. Commonly known as a "rail", "digger", or "slingshot", it is now considered obsolete, and is used only in nostalgia drag racing .

2017年9月28日 · They were the ones that looked like two rails, an engine, and four tires that someone sat on. Those stripped-down "bugs" or "rail jobs" were always the fastest, because they...

A dragster is a specialized competition automobile used in drag racing. Dragsters, also commonly called "diggers", can be broadly placed in three categories, based on the fuel they use: gasoline , methanol , and nitromethane .

In the early 1950's when drag racing was still something new, the media called the dragsters "rail jobs". This was because the early dragsters were not much more than a car with an engine mounted on the frame rails. Get a car, remove the body, fenders and pretty much everything else, and you had a "rail job".

2014年11月9日 · Diggers, dragsters, slingshots, rail jobs—by any name, these homebuilt race cars were the stars of early drag racing. Here are a half-dozen colorful examples. Today, drag racing is an exact science, driven by advanced and refined technology.

Known in the early days as the “Jimmy Dandy” rail dragster, it was owned by Stan Hill and Jerry Rollema. Featured in the August of 1961 Hot Rod magazine, highlighting its triumphs on the dragstrip making 10 second passes at 140.6 mph.

2019年12月4日 · In 1971, Don Garlits turned the Top Fuel world around with Swamp Rat 14, his successful rear-engine dragster. Photo and video courtesy of NHRA. Don Garlits didn’t invent the rear-engine dragster, of course. Rail jobs with the engine behind the driver were as old as drag racing, more or less.

2021年6月24日 · “The Bug”, generally considered to be the first rail dragster races for the first time. It began in 1935 when Dick Kraft of Anaheim, California began his speed-possessed hot rod pioneering endeavors, first with that 4 cylinder Model T roadster and then a Model A.

The Dragster has a rebuilt 1956 Hemi casting numbers NE5625955, with an old patent-pending mechanical Hilborn injection on top. To complete the drive train it has a 39 Packard manual trans and a narrowed 55 Oldsmobile rear end.

2017年4月10日 · This is one of the longest continually run dragsters of all time; the infamous Ike Iacono rail, originally featured on HOT ROD's January 1959 cover.