NicKey Drag Race Cars

1966 Dickie Harrell's 396 Chevy II funny car

Dickie Harrell and his ‘66 Chevy II were famous match racers in the early funny car wars. This was Harrell’s second match bash Chevy II. Chevrolet’s Chevy II was supposed to be an economy car, but became Chevy’s best competition for Ford’s Mustang on the nation’s drag strips. The injected big block 396 Chevrolet was not the perfect engine for racing, but Harrell made do. Dick ran the engine on low levels of nitro. Harrell was still based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico at the time. Nickey Chevrolet, the famed high performance car dealer, sponsored the lightweight Chevy II. Harrell ran a known best of 9.44 at 144 with the little car according to www.draglist.com. (Photo courtesy of Bob Plumer and Drag Race Memories)