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Some of the most serious classic car collections in the country don’t belong to executives or professional racers — they belong to comedians. This piece digs into why stand-up and car collecting attract the same kind of obsessive personality, and what actually makes a car someone’s genuine favorite.
A GoPro Hero2 zip-tied to a wheelie bar caught something most drag strip cameras never get close enough to see: the violent tire shake of a Top Alcohol Funny Car launching at Grand Bend Motorplex. Commenters broke down the 4,000-horsepower-class physics and even spotted distorted tire plies left behind afterward. What does over 270 mph in just over five seconds actually look like from three feet away?
Jack Chrisman’s 1965 Mercury Comet — the altered-wheelbase car credited with launching NHRA’s fuel Funny Car division — turns up on static display at the 2017 Southeast Gassers Association Knoxville event, owned by the family behind Barillaro Speed Emporium. One commenter adds firsthand history, having grown up at Lions and Irwindale and even met Chrisman’s son. See the car that made stock-bodied Mercury look deceptively ordinary.
