Jet Car Archive

With Tony Schumacher winning the Top Fuel Championship again, I thought I would post about his first 300 MPH car. The Odyssey in it many for...

In the 1980's, after a bad funny car fire, TV Tommy IVO built a jet car. This car was one of the most beautiful bodied cars of the time....

The Vampire and Hellbender were two Rolls Royce powered jet dragsters out of the U.K. In the 1980's they were the state of the art cars ...

A newer family in the jet car ranks came a few years ago, Mark & Sheila Smith. Mark, Sheila and their two sons toured the U.S. based out...

Probably the most widely known jet car of all time would have to be the Green Mamba. Designed, built, driven, owned and just about anything ...

The Backdraft jet funny car was one of the early center sitting funny cars. Like the more widely known Eastern Raider/Top Secret car of Al H...

The Pass - a- Fire car was a Charlie Hand/Tommy O'brien car that Chuck Haynes bought and ran. He later sold this J-60 powered car to Jet...

Jimmy Gonzales ran the Final Option jet dragster. It was a Pratt & Whitney J-60 powered car built by Jerry Segal. He ran the car for abo...

Les Shockley's Shockwave. What more can be said. Built for the 1976 season, Les became a trend setter and inovator in the jet car ranks....

Lee Austin from the Chicago area, built some of the 70's & 80's jet cars and bodies. He crafted the Emergency 1 body, as well as...

Here is the Fireworks U.S.A. Jet Funny Car. It was owned by Fred Spiezio. It was a J-34 Westinghouse powered Corvette Jet Funny Car. We ran...

To kick things off, I will post the history of our first jet car, The Emergency 1. In the early 70's, my dad was driving an econorail dr...

I should have made this the Jet & Rocket Archive. The two types of vehicles were always the step child of the racing associtations. But...

I wanted to create a spot for Jet Car history. A place where all the stories, photo, and memories can be posted for everyone to read. I will...