The Oddest Car You Raced Against

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Dan Bennett

I'd nominate anyone who had to race me in my first car - a 59 Nash Metropolitan.

It was able to talk my parents into letting me buy it for $150 when I was 14 and learned to drive a stick in the field next to our house.

AHRA classified the car as X/FG but I'm not entirely sure the tech guy didn't just pull a class at random since he was pretty well stumped.

I won my class at Pacific Dragstrip in Pacific, Missouri the day they gave out free jackets to class winners. In the first round of Eliminator, I came up against a Pontiac Tempest Sprint (OHC 6 cylinder with a Quadrajet) that cleaned my clock in epic proportions.

I ran my 1969 VW beetle at New York National in 1969.I was in class XF/F Experimental
Foreign F.