I spent the first half of the 1970s wrenching on supercharged fuel Funny Cars. Those familiar with the breed know that even back then, nitromethane-burning Funny Car engines had short fuses and made ...

Over the last 75 years, hot rodders have tried souping-up their engines with every possible exotic fuel and power additive. After trial and error, they settled on nitromethane—a dry-cleaning solvent ...

Try, for a moment, to comprehend a four-cylinder engine capable of achieving 4,000 hp at 55 psi turbo boost on nitromethane. It gets wild pretty fast. A single horsepower is defined as the ability to ...

There is no clear reason why they are called funny cars, but maybe it is the fact that their fiberglass or carbon fiber tilt-up bodies appear to be caricatures of newly available cars. But there is ...