6/13/2023 0 Comments Color me gone funny carIn the hearts of Funny Car fans everywhere, there probably is no greater personality than “Jungle Jim” Liberman. In no particular order other than how I wrote them down, here are the 16 qualifiers for the 1970s Funny Car poll in our Favorite Race Car Ever poll! The people who drove them, too, seemed bigger than life, and their wild tales of caravanning across the nation and setting up shop sometimes three or four times a week at different tracks made them heroes to us all.Īll right, time to spin ‘em over. They had evolved from the somewhat crude machines of the 1960s and become a bigger draw than their dragster brethren, thanks to an assortment of body styles (that actually looked like their showroom counterparts), wild paint jobs, extreme showmanship, and wild antics. The 1970s was a seminal time for Funny Cars. As Steve Evans would have said, “It’s a fiberglass forest of all your favorites!” I probably received more nominations for this poll than any other, well more than the 16 finalists that I chose based on their multiple nominations.Ī lot of you have cried on my shoulder about earlier polls and the heart-wrenching decisions to have to select only one car out of many of your favorites listed, and this one won’t be any easier. Okay, so I’ve been hinting about and looking forward to this one for weeks, and it’s finally here: the 1970s Funny Car poll! Having grown up on these cars, they’re my favorites, and based on Web sites such as, I know I’m not alone.
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