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Volume XI, Issue 8 August 12, 2009NOSTALGIA FUNNY CAR EXHIBITIONWhen your European correspondent attended his first drag race (1980 World Finals at Santa Pod, with Don “theSnake” Prudhomme, Tom Hoover, Gene Snow, Dennis Priddle, Allan Herridge and Owen Hayward et al. doing battlein the biggest fuel funny car eliminator seen outside of North America), it was Harlan Thompson and the Tre KronorArrow of Knut Soderquist that took home all the marbles. The sight of Johnny Nilsson’s recreation of the three crowncar at Mantorp driven by Thompson and being guided into stage by Soderquist was one that brought back thememories, and the re-pop barks like a nitro car should.Not just one Nostalgia Funny Car appeared in the staging lanes. The Wamo Racing team, headed by Erik Wallinderand Anders Molund, have spent the past couple of years getting the ex-Bifrost Pro Comp Corvette body into shapehaving found it in a forest (the full saga can be read at the team’s website www.wamoracing.se ), and are in theearly shakedown phase with the setup on the Rimfrost car.FIA/UEM European Championships Round Three, Veidec Festival, Mantorp Park, Sweden - Page 11 of 15 -DragRacingOnline.com