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- Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in Hot Rod, April 2017, pp.30-43.
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Nye Frank is an American dragster builder in the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
Among others, Frank worked on the twin-engined dragsters Freight Train and Pulsator (as designer [2] ) the Setzer streamliner (designing and positioning the wings [3] ), Flying Wedge (building the body, along with Quin Epperly [4] ), and Spirit II (collaborating in building her with Craig Breedlove [5] ).
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Quincy David "Quin" Epperly was an American racing car constructor. He was born in Floyd, Virginia, to John Wesley and Iowa Texas Epperly. After completing a correspondence course in "Theory of Aircraft Construction", Epperly moved to Southern California in 1940 to work for Lockheed and Pacific Airmotive. During the war, he joined the Coast Guard Reserve to spend evenings after work on watch at the Wilmington Coast Guard Patrol Base.
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