''Re-Entry'' is a
streamliner
A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor " bullet trains". Less commonly, the term ...
dragster.
Built by
Roger Lindwall, ''Re-Entry'' seems to have benefitted from his experience in
hydroplane racing, featuring a semi-enclosed cockpit and enclosed engine and rear end, mated to a typical
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 ...
car's bicycle wheels, dropped axle, and zoomie pipes. The body was all-aluminum. ''Re-Entry'' was powered by a
hemi
Hemi may refer to:
People Surname
* Jack Hemi (1914–1996), New Zealand freezing worker, rugby union and league player, shearer
* Ronald Hemi (1933–2000), New Zealand rugby union player
Given name
* Hemi Bawa, Indian painter and sculptor
* ...
.
''Re-Entry'' debuted at
Cordova Dragway, Illinois, in 1966, where she turned in the first pass for a rear-engined dragster.
At Indianapolis the next weekend, driver
Wayne Hill clocked a 9.52 second pass at , only to have the car pirouette through the traps, wrecking it. Lindwall did not rebuild the car and quit
drag racing.
[Taylor, p.38.]
Notes
Sources
*Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in ''Hot Rod'', April 2017, pp. 30–43.
1960s cars
Drag racing cars
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