Re-Entry (dragster) explained

Re-Entry
Class:Top Fuel
Body Style:Rear-engined streamliner dragster
Engine: hemi
Designer:Roger Lindwall

Re-Entry is a streamliner dragster.[1]

Built by Roger Lindwall, Re-Entry seems to have benefitted from his experience in hydroplane racing, featuring a semi-enclosed cockpit and enclosed engine and rear end, mated to a typical Top Fuel car's bicycle wheels, dropped axle, and zoomie pipes. The body was all-aluminum. Re-Entry was powered by a hemi.[1]

Re-Entry debuted at Cordova Dragway, Illinois, in 1966, where she turned in the first pass for a rear-engined dragster.[1]

At Indianapolis the next weekend, driver Wayne Hill clocked a 9.52 second pass at, only to have the car pirouette through the traps, wrecking it.[1] Lindwall did not rebuild the car and quit drag racing.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Taylor, Thom. "Roger Lindwall Re-Entry", in "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", p.38.