The Winternationals are upon us, and to celebrate let’s turn back to 1969. In the far lane is Nelson Carter’s former Imperial Kustoms Charger, now named “Superchief” after he conducted a name-my-Funny-Car contest. Over the years Carter’s Funny Cars were shoed by Ron Perau, Steve Bovan, Dave Beebe, Tim Grose and Bob Pickett, among others. In the near lane is the familiar name of Don Schumacher, who back in this period was driving his own Funny Cars he named “Stardust”. His 1968 ‘Cuda was originally Butch Leal’s Logghe chassis car, which Shu purchased when Leal went back to door slammers. This car ran a best of 7.22 at 205.50mph. The ultimate victor in Funny Car at the 1969 Winters was Clare Sanders in Jungle Jim Liberman’s Nova flopper.
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