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World's Quickest Fuel Altered

Let's start this new page out right....with a car that held the title of World's Quickest Fuel Altered for over 7 years...Dave "Nasty" Benjamin, ran 5.612 on April 4th, 1993, and until held the record until Ron Fassl ran 5.581 at
257.68 mph to set both ends of the Fuel Altered records on June 24, 2000.

That record has since been lowered to 5.424 at 282.14 mph, by another Arizona fuel altered, the Neese & Knowles team, in June of 2002.

Gangreen Willys

Pete "Drag Cartoons" Millar's Gangreen AA/FA Willys...

David Ray Photo

Mondello Matsubara Fiat

Joe Mondello's Rat motored Fiat Fuel Altered, at Indy, with Sush Matsubara, pilot, doing some engine maintenence.This was one of the strongest running Chevy powered cars around,
but eventually, the Chrysler engines pushed all the other powerplants aside...

David Ray Photo

Gil Hayward's Monkey Motion Bantam

Gil Hayward's Monkey Motion Bantam...mouse motor and all, circa 1964-5.

Glenn Miller, Trackside Photos

Geary and Walker

Geary and Walker

Geary and Walker

Three shots of the Geary & Walker Bantam, small-block Chevy AA/FA

Glenn Miller, Trackside Photo

Burkholder Bros.

The Burkholder Tub at OCIR...

Photo provided by Stan Weber

DiMatteo Bros

Somebody geting fancy with a prism filter...DiMatteo Bros at OCIR...

Photo provided by Stan Weber

Kazanjian and Lemon

Kazanjian and Lemon BB/A...no, not nitro, but a bitchin' lookin' car anyways.

Dave Kommel Photo-Auto Imagery

Instant T, Pure Heaven

Final round AA/FA meet at OCIR...Dennis Geisler's Instant T in the near lane,
Art McLaren in the Pure Heaven T-bucket in the far lane...who won?

Psycho Mustang

Snodgrass and Mahnken's "Psycho" AA/FA...normally a Fiat Fuel Altered,
the S & M boys installed a 65 Mustang Fastback body on their altered chassis,
and, voila! Instant Altered classic!

Psycho Mustang

Powered by a 427 Ford wedge, Snodgrass and Mahnken took Competion Eliminator at the 1965 HRM meet.

Purple Passion

The Purple Passion A/FA at Irwindale, 1970

Sush pushing Mondello's Fiat

Sush Matsubara pushing the Mondello's Porting Service Fiat at Carlsbad Raceway

Glenn Miller, Trackside Photo

Sush Tuning Hard

A little older version of Sush, working on the blown version of the Mondello Fiat.

Dave Kommel Photo/Auto Imagery

Mondello Fiat at Carlsbad

The Mondello Fiat at Carlsbad Raceway, under its own power...

Glann Miller/Trackside Photos

Sheldon and Way

The Sheldon and Way 34 Ford Fuel Altered

Glenn Miller- Trackside Photo

Drag News Ad

Right out of Drag News...!

With the Pipins and Green Model T roadster pickup boilin' the baloneys...

provided by Mike Jones.

Dave Benjamin 1974

"Nasty" Dave Benjamin at Orange County, 1974

Photo provided by Nasty hisself

Dave Benjamin Tucson 75

Dave and the same car, little different setup, at Tucson, 1975

Dave Benjamin collection

Rod Hynes Black Magic

Rod Hynes in the shortlived Bantam bodied Black Magic
...as Rod said, "Before the "T" body, there was a Bantam...burned it bad at OCIR, had to go to the "T".

From the Rod Hynes Collection
Photo by Dave Kommel-Autoimagery

Mike Hilsabeck-Major Motion

The Hilsabeck and Kelley "Major Motion" AA/FA, around 1985

Photo provided by Mike Hilsabeck

Hynes/Hilsabeck

Here's Rod Hynes putting it to Mike Hilsabeck at LA County Raceway, 1985.

Photo provided by Mike Hilsabeck

Looks like 1972 at Sacramento was fun!

From the Dave Hough collection


this way (West Coast 8) or that way (West Coast 10)


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