Dragster Rear-Engine Street Racing & Drag Racing Videos

Drag Racings Finest "Asphalt Digout" Pt 4 Of 5 Big Daddy Etc
Union Grove Wisconsin 1970, "Asphalt Digout", a video that Broadway Bob Metzler, Ex Owner of Great Lakes Dragaway, Union Grove Wisconsin, passed this video out at his big party. All the big names, the first rear engine top fuel dragsters, Big Daddys first rear engine dragster. My fathers car, Krupinski Leetz and Austin also shown, driven by Lee Austin, also his first rear engine top fueler vs. Dick Shawfrank. You gotta see this one!

NMCA 2008 - Bradenton Florida
The 2008 season will start out with a blast down in the Sunshine State. With Spring Break winding down, and the summer not too far away, the NMCA will launch the season in style at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Once again, we'll start off the weekend with a wild Hooters Pre-Race Party at the Hooters of Bradenton. The Black Mustang club out of Royal Palm Beach will be hosting the car show, so you can be sure to see some immaculate muscle cars cruising around. This year we'll also be running the Open Outlaw Exhibition class. This class will blow you away with anything from funny cars to rear engine dragsters competing for $3400 in prize money! The 6th Annual Ross Pistons NMCA Hot Rod Muscle Car Nationals boasts one of the season's largest heads-up NMCA Edelbrock Drag Race, NMCA Auto Show Shine, swap meet and vendor midway. And be sure to check out the awesome Burnout Contest. Join us in Bradenton for the official kick-off to history's fastest street legal drag racing season yet, the 2008 NMCA Edelbrock Hot Rod Muscle Car Nationals!

Looney Racing @ MCID, Minot ND
Looney Racing at Minot, ND Dolores in her 68 RS/SS Camaro Greg in his 97 Rear Engine Dragster

87 Rear Engine Dragster
First weekend out with my rebuilt engine.

205 Mi32 :: video #011 :: Starting the rear engine on MS ECU
The first step of turbocharging the rear engine was to get the engine (still naturally aspirated) running, with fuel injection now managed by DIY MegaSquirt ECU. More info on http://www.205Mi32.com

Rear Engine Funny Car
Dennis Geisler's Hindsight shows us why the rear engine Funny Car idea never really caught on.

Engine start up
our dragsters first start of the year. everything rebuilt. champlain racing rear engine dragster #1

Rear Engine Funny Car
Transmission frying run, listen near finish line, you can hear it blow

Snowmobile Powered Dragster
This is a rear engine dragster powered by a snowmobile engine. It runs 9:50 - 9:99 at 125-135mph in the 1/4 mile.

Dragway 42 - Ohio Bracket Series Event - May 4, 2008
Final round from the Delay Box class at the Ohio Bracket Series event at Dragway 42 - West Salem, Ohio. Chevy vs. Ford powered rear engine dragsters in this pair. Scotty Phillips vs Chris Weinkamer The winner of this event's Box / No Box Combo took home $2,000.00

JET CARS AT FIRE AND THUNDER 2008
Jet cars at the fire and thunder but gary eickmann steals the show with his new "rear engine" dragster

Good Burnout, and run at Lakeland Dragstrip
Our car is now the "Michael Holley Chevrolet Funny Car/Altered" Video from Lakeland Motorsports Park June 9 2007,we finally broke the 120 mph barrier with this pass of 123 mph, even with "lazy" start