Built by Roger Lindwall, Re-Entry seems to have benefitted from his experience in hydroplane racing, featuring a semi-enclosed cockpit and enclosed engine and rear end, mated to a typical Top Fuel car's bicycle wheels, dropped axle, and zoomie pipes. The body was all-aluminum. Re-Entry was powered by a 392cuin (6,420cc)hemi.[1]
Re-Entry debuted at Cordova Dragway, Illinois, in 1966, where she turned in the first 200mph (320km/h) pass for a rear-engined dragster.[1]
At Indianapolis the next weekend, driver Wayne Hill clocked a 9.52second pass at 201.34mph (324.03km/h), only to have the car pirouette through the traps, wrecking it.[1] Lindwall did not rebuild the car and quit drag racing.[1]
Notes
1 2 3 4 5 Taylor, Thom. "Roger Lindwall Re-Entry", in "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", p.38.
Sources
Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in Hot Rod, April 2017, pp.30–43.
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