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Cover of SandPaper featuring a Blown Nitro Funny Car.
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The roots of the A/Fuel class.
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Butch Blair in his rear-engine Vegas Funny Car. According to Butch, this car was owned by Larry Minor before he raced it. According to the article, Butch won his first FC event at Santa Maria in this car defeating Jim DePasse (current driver of Ron "Otis" Simpson's Blown Jeep) for the eliminator win.
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Check out current TF racer Rick Cameron in the upper right corner putting a set of scoops on his Dragster for competition on the sand. Also, bottom right is the dual-tire Top Fueler of Larry Minor. Larry currently owns the Pro Mod/Pro Outlaw FE/TE Jeep driven by Geoff Gill.
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