"Fairground Funnies"...Ed "the Ace" McCulloch battling with the Ron Colson.... Drag Racing Art

Limited-Edition Print o f 350 (13x19) prints Signed and numbered by the Artist.    By 1977, funny car racing had started to become cliché, and somewhat common place. The media, and more precisely the motorsports media, basically ignored the flopper class.  One editor remarked that the cars had become "cookie cutters."  "All the cars were basically the same, only adorned with different body shells to somehow appease the Factories."        For the next few years, magazines would only occasionally run articles on the "Plastic Fantastics," and then the stories would only be about the major players at the time, like Prudhomme's "Army" car,  or Beadle's "Blue Max."   However, there were some very beautiful cars running at the time, and real fans of the sport realized, that Funny Cars were just coming into their own. They were becoming extremely exotic race cars, and a ongoing working experiment in aerodynamics. As an Artist, I was very excited to be able t