Historic Cars
- 1954 — first slingshot, built by Mickey Thompson.
- 1962 — the Greer-Black–Prudhomme digger, with the best win record in NHRA history.
- 1966 — Eliminator I, the first true Funny Car, built by the Logge brothers
- 1971 — Swamp Rat XIV, first rear-engined dragster, built by Don Garlits; Ed Donovan introduces the 417 Donovan hemi, an aluminum copy of the Chrysler
- 1974 — first tube chassis Pro Stock car, Bill Jenkins' '72 Vega.
- 1986 — Swamp Rat XXX, first streamlined dragster, built by Don Garlits.
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“We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in “the social” our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial cosiness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)