You can see the embryonic beginnings of the fast and crazy Funny Car class of drag racing from a single owner/driver, one Jack Chrisman. His early Super Stock Mercury Comets morphed very quickly ...

Notable dry lakes racer Jack Harvey acquired it first ... and he set his sights on the Santa Ana Drags. Initially, Chrisman drag raced the car with its original 89-inch wheelbase.

Credit, he determined, went to Fran Hernandez, the head of Mercury’s racing program, who was the first to use the term “funny” in reference to these cars, perhaps in the context of “We ...

Firing up what later became known as a nitro Funny Car was a simple matter of turning the ignition key when dragster veteran Jack Chrisman had ... bodied new car became drag racing’s leading ...

Although I’m not exactly positive Chrisman was there, if you say Jack Chrisman ... the York US 30 2015 Drag Racing Legends Reunion show. I asked former NHRA World Funny Car Champion Bruce ...

Legendary NHRA drag racer Art Chrisman died on July 12. He was 86 years old. Chrisman, nephew of the great Jack Chrisman ... was best known for his No. 25 car, with his partner Leroy Neumeyer.

(Photo courtesy of former Lions Drag Strip) Extra PHOTO if desired ... being there with his all fiberglass flip top Funny Car and Jack Chrisman, too as part of an eight car show.

Although I’m not exactly positive Chrisman was there, if you say Jack Chrisman ... the York US 30 2015 Drag Racing Legends Reunion show. I asked former NHRA World Funny Car Champion Bruce ...

Although I’m not exactly positive Chrisman was there, if you say Jack Chrisman was there ... weekend when I attended the York US 30 2015 Drag Racing Legends Reunion show. I asked former NHRA World ...