Billy Meyer

With the Ford engine, Camp Stanley could crack into the sevens, but the big, heavy wagon was never a performance threat to Howe's, at least at first.

It needs to be mentioned that the Ford engine came from Billy Meyer himself, who had actually tested the combo out in a funny car the season prior, which kind of totally rules.

A couple of other things happened coming into the 1988 season for our heroes, Bob and Tommy.

Rizzoli added the down bars that the IHRA officials wanted to see to tie the whole car together and add driver protection, and Howe's decided that a more colorful look would be better and maybe a more positive way to land sponsors.

Bay film.

He says somewhere out there in this drag racing world, Billy Meyer is smiling ear to ear.

Well, yeah, that was because he used to run the IHRA.

Billy Meyer used to.

He was a funny car driver, for those people who don't know.

For a very long time in the IHRA, he built the Texas Motorplex, which has its own challenges right now.