Though in reality many Corvette Funny Cars plied the quarter-mile over the years without incident, Tom McEwen gets credit for breaking the curse with his 1977 Corvette Funny Car, as well as his ...

The C3 Corvette certainly looked fast in Funny Car form, but along with its ... was the Mako-bodied Funny owned and driven by Tom "Mongoose" McEwen. A storied driver, first in front-engine Top ...

“At the time, all we were thinking about was having some extra money,” Tom McEwen told the ... Plymouth ’Cuda and red McEwen Plymouth Duster Funny Cars became icons for preadolescents.

and because Steve Evans just announced that 'Goose is coming to the line in that Corvette Funny Car! Tom McEwen's last big flash in the magazines was when he built a 1957 Chevy Funny Car that was ...

Drag racing lost one of its most iconic drivers with the death of Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. McEwen, 81, who raced Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, died Monday according to a story on NHRA.com.

Tom “The Mongoose ... into a high-exposure match race, McEwen won five NHRA national events during his 35-plus-year career that included time in Funny Cars and Top Fuel dragsters.

Tom McEwen was both sly and smart as a fox ... Mongoose Hot Wheels cars came out, things were taken to a whole new level. Getting their Funny Cars were like hitting a kids-like Lotto. They were the ...

NHRA drag racing continues to mourn the death earlier this week of Tom ... McEwen had good success on the many West Coast tracks, it was his battles with Prudhomme in their Hot Wheels Funny Cars ...

Don “Snake” Prudhomme, John Force and Tom “Mongoose” McEwen in 2014. Photo: NHRA/National Dragster Like many of his contemporaries such as Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Kenny Bernstein, NHRA Funny Car ...

But one of those wins, the Funny Car title at the 1978 U.S. Nationals, would come after a final round victory over Prudhomme. A victory that came just days after the death of his young son Jamie from ...