Talk:Funny Car

Name

But why are they called "Funny" Cars? --Goatrider 03:47, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cause they looked funny, with the rear wheels moved up under the back seats and the front wheels moved up to the bumper. Gzuckier 15:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1,000 foot runs

In recent years NHRA has limited Top Fuel and Funny Car to running 1,000 feet, due in part to the death of Scott Kalitta and because they've been running so fast. The solution to slow down Funny Car is ludicrously simple. Go back to the body rules of 25+ years ago when the body had to be based on a real car's shape. Make it so the body must be *exactly* the shape of a production vehicle except for being stretched between the base of the windshield and front axle centerline, and allow alteration to accommodate the big rear tires. Underneath any chin spoiler, airdam and rear spoiler or wing the body shape should exactly match the production vehicle. Ban the narrow 'greenhouse' streamliner bodies that are all virtually identical and the "too fast" problem will go away. Bizzybody (talk) 06:45, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's a gasser

Can somebody add info on the alky & gas classes...? TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 16:26, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of Name

Funny cars use nitrous oxide or "laughing gas". I believe that is why they are called funny. Randall Bart Talk 17:23, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation

This page should be at "Funny car", it seems. --Anthrcer (click to talk to me) 09:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, it shouldn't. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 11:16, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No 1964 Dodge Coronet

Assuming the Wikipedia article Dodge Coronet is correct, there was no such car. I can't see the source so I don't know if it was a 1965 model made in 1964.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:40, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization inconsistency

The term appears as "Funny Car" or "funny car" seemingly at random in this article.

I assume the capitalized term refers to the class, while the non-cap term refers to the cars. But I'm not sure, and not knowledgeable enough to know which is which. But something needs to be done to clean this up. ~Anachronist (talk) 07:51, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

History section, broken sentences

About half-way down, we find:

The success of these cars inspired other racers to give up class racing for supercharged exhibition cars, led by "Arnie Farmer" Beswick and his Pontiac GTO, Gary Dyer's hemi Dodge A/FX (financed by Norm Krause, "Mister Norm"), and

Exactly like that. I couldn't find an edit in the first page of diffs that broke this, so I figured I put it here and hope someone knew or remembered what happened.

Also, earlier than that, a paragraph starts:

Considered to be the first 'Funny Car' (it just looked funny at the time).

That's not a sentence, and does it refer to the paragraph before (terrible grammatically) or what follows? Either way it is completely unclear, perhaps the result of multiple editors adding factoids without overall views to readability or clarity. I almost just deleted this one, but things still don't make good sense or flow without it, so the two paragraphs probably need to be merged and rewritten a bit by someone who knows both drag racing history and English grammar.

Anyway, just hoping these get fixed up some day.

Huw Powell (talk) 03:43, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]