"Jungle 4 Jocko" Jungle 4" ... Mooneyham, Ferguson, Jackson and Faust.... Drag Racing Art

Limited-Edition Print o f 350 (13x19) prints 
 Signed and numbered by the Artist.  
 
 Another example of a beautiful yet uneventful attempt at streamlining was the “Jungle 4” car of Mooneyham, Ferguson, Jackson and Faust. This is the same car as seen in my “Bakersfield Blues” painting, now draped in a sleek streamlined body. 
 In early 1965, the team of Frank Cannon and the Chrisman Brothers worked with "Streamlining Extraordinaire" Robert “Jocko” Johnson, to build a streamliner body for their Woody Chassis dubbed the “Hustler VI,” it would début at the “March Meet” in Bakersfield that year. After making only one sluggish pass, the team thought the body was be too heavy, so they stripped it off the car and ran without it enabling them to qualify for the race. However, the follow day while making checkout pass with the bodiless chassis, due to oil on the track the car got out of shape and rolled over which quickly killed their chances at the ra