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Howard Johansen

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Howard Johansen is an American gasser drag racer.[1]

Driving a 1955 Chevrolet, Johansen won NHRA's first ever C/Gas national title, at Great Bend, Kansas, in 1955. He recorded a speed of 94.53 mph (152.13 km/h).[2] (His elapsed time was not recorded or has not been preserved.)

Johansen later founded the camshaft-grinding company Howard Cams.[3] which sponsored several well-known racing cars, including Rattler (driven by Larry Dixon, to a Top Fuel Eliminator win at the Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races in 1968[4]).

Notes

  1. ^ Davis, Larry. Gasser Wars (Cartech, 2003), p.180.
  2. ^ Davis, p.180.
  3. ^ McClurg, Bob. Diggers, Funnies, Gassers and Altereds: Drag Racing's Golden Age. (CarTech Inc, 2013), p.47.
  4. ^ *Taylor, Thom. Untitled item in Hot Rod Magazine, February 2017, p. 11.

Sources

  • Davis, Larry. Gasser Wars, North Branch, MN: Cartech, 2003, pp.13 caption and 183-8.</ref>