Woody Gilmore is a
dragster and
funny car chassis builder in the 1960s and 1970s.
Gilmore built the chassis for the
top fuel
Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of and finishing the runs in 3.62 second ...
streamliner ''
Hustler VI'' in 1965.
In 1968,
Doug Thorley Doug Thorley was an American Funny Car drag racer, hot rodder and businessman. In 1967, he won the NHRA Nationals' first Funny Car Eliminator title, and was given ''Car Craft''s All-Star Drag Racing Team Funny Car Driver of the Year Award in 1968 ...
bought a rear-engined
Javelin funny car from Gilmore, powered by an
AMC 401.
Gilmore was also responsible for the
Don Prudhomme
Don Prudhomme (born April 6, 1941 in San Fernando, California), nicknamed "The Snake", is an American drag racer.
He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1991.
Racing career
Prudhomme crewed for "TV Tommy" Ivo on Ivo's ...
, Rance McDaniel (the
Dan Olson Racing Products team), and ''
Wynns Stormer''
streamliner wedge
dragsters, all in 1972.
He also built the chassis for the
Petersen and Fritz "Can-Am" dragster in 1974.
[Taylor, "Herm Petersen-Sam Fritz Can-Am dragster", in "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", p.32.]
Notes
Sources
*McClurg, Bob. "50 Years of Funny Cars: Part 2" in ''Drag Racer'', November 2016, pp. 35–50.
*Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in ''Hot Rod'', April 2017, pp. 30–43.
American automobile designers
Dragster drivers
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