''Sidewinder III'' is a

streamliner A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating wikt:streamline, 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 "High-speed rail, bullet trai ...

dragster.Taylor, Thom. "Kent Fuller Sidewinder III", in "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", p. 42. Built by Kent Fuller in 1969, it used a transversly-mounted

supercharged In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement. The current categorisation is that a supercharger is a form of forced induct ...

350 Chevy (hence "sidewinder") in a magnesium-tube

chassis A chassis (, ; plural ''chassis'' from French châssis ) is the load-bearing framework of an artificial object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function. An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpart ...

with a wheelbase. It was run by the team of Hopkins, Thornhill, and Finicle in BB/GD (B supercharged gas dragster).

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Sources

* Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in ''Hot Rod'', April 2017, pp. 30–43. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sidewinder III 1960s cars Drag racing cars Rear-wheel-drive vehicles