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- Review: None other than "Big Daddy" Don Garlits opined, "It's the quintessential film on drag racing ... there was never one before it and there'll never be another one like it."
- DRAG RACER (1971) Synopsis: Filmed on location at West Coast racetracks including Irwindale Raceway, Lions Drag Strip, and Orange County Int'l Raceway and featuring racing by quarter-mile greats such as Bill Schultz, John Lombardo, Norm Wilcox, and Larry Dixon, the film has a lot to offer hard-core fans.
- Amazon.com said: “A nice stroll down memory lane; if you grew up attending numerous drag races in the ‘60s and ‘70s you'll enjoy this flashback. For a Hollywood type movie on drag racing, this is pretty good.
- Rotten Tomatoes said: “Noted photographer Ron Phillips turns director for this fast-moving documentary. Funny Car Summer is an affectionate profile of California fireman Jim Dunn.
Apr 1, 1983 · Heart Like a Wheel: Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. With Diane Delano, Ellen Geer, Dick Miller, Michael Cavanaugh. Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Jonathan Kaplan
- 1983-04-01
Mar 28, 2016 · Synopsis: Directed by Jonathan Kaplan (whose 1988 film, The Accused, earned Jodie Foster her first Oscar for Best Actress), the film chronicles the career of the great Shirley Muldowney, from...
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In Columbus, Ohio, in 1976, Muldowney dominated Top Fuel, qualifying number-one by 0.05 second, setting low elapsed time (ET) and top speed of the meet, having the low ET in every round, breaking her own top speed record in the final, and winning the class.
Two Top Fuel dragsters side by side during an NHRA event in 2012. Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 338 miles per hour (544.0 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.62 seconds.
Sep 24, 2018 · In This Article. Category: Muscle Cars. In 1983, Heart Like a Wheel was released, the major motion picture depicting how I rose from waitressing behind a Schenectady, New York, lunch counter to becoming an NHRA Top Fuel drag racing world champion and a U.S. Nationals Top Fuel winner.
