But that didn't stop racers from continuing to tickle the rear-engine Funny Car paradigm. "Big" Jim Dunn and Joe Reath had Woody Gilmore construct this 'Cuda Funny Car in late-1971. Dunn was well ...

The first rear-engine Funny Car is the Dunn & Reath '72 'Cuda, and it's driven by the world's fastest fireman. Jim Dunn. The Woody Gilmore chassis is basically a widened rear-engine digger unit ...

Dunn, 49, has plenty of Funny Car racing experience, and the Monticello, Ill., native already had dabbled in sanctioning nostalgic Funny Car programs, just like the IHRA was interested in adding ...