Remember when Funny Cars looked like real cars instead of Easter eggs? If so, you’ve already discovered the new playground for your old favorites. If not, nostalgia Funny Cars offer an unexpected opportunity to relive the Big Four battles your dad and granddad have been babbling about all these years.
Better hurry, though; at the rate these new/old combinations are evolving, the classic Camaros, Mustangs, Barracudas, Chargers, Challengers, Vegas, Firebirds, Arrows, and AMCs may go the way of NHRA and NASCAR spec cars. Alas, in the four seasons since Goodguys opened its gates to a handful of fledgling floppers, eligible pre-’82 bodies have been chopped, narrowed, lengthened, and smoothed in ways that builders of the ’60s and ’70s never imagined possible.
In 1984, one NHRA team did look ahead and…