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1964 The Diggers Fuel Dragster Art Malone

Arthur "Art" Malone (June 3, 1936 – March 29, 2013, Tampa, Florida) was an American race car driver. Malone is known primarily for having been a drag racer and was the 1963 AHRA Top Fuel World champion. In 1959, he drove for Don Garlits. On August 23, 1959, he set a Standard 1320 speed record of 183.66 mph (295.57 km/h). He is in the AHRA Hall of Fame. He was the first to attain 180 miles per hour (290 km/h) at Daytona International Speedway. Malone also raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1962-1965 seasons, with 10 career starts, including the 1963 and 1964 Indianapolis 500 races. Art Malone's best finish at Indy came in 1964, where he started the race in 30th position, and finished a very respectable 11th. Malone was injured in an airboat accident in the early 2010s; failing to fully recover from his injuries, he died on March 29, 2013. Art Malone helped destroy a few myths about East Coast drag cars when he came West a few years back and scourged the California racers. He seemed to own the nation's drag strips in 1963; that was his year. But Art Malone is a professional racer, and isn't restricted to being a straight-line driver. He drove a Novi at Indy in '63 and '64, once held the closed-course record at Daytona with a speed of 181.561 mph and. during spare moments, has driven modified stock cars in Florida. He has owned a half-dozen modified cars, one gas dragster, a drag boat and a funny car; and this new rear-engined car is Art's seventh AA/Fuel dragster. It is undoubtedly his most original car. Advantages of a sidewinder dragster are many: Torque acts equally on each side of the car, the driver is ahead of the engine, and weight transfer which can cause the front end to get light is made easy to control. It took Malone nearly two years to complete the car, because he built it originally to serve as a test bed for an innovative supercharging idea. That project has been dismissed for the moment, so the car is heading for the races with a conventional 6-71 GMC blower. After a halfdozen outings, it had clocked 220-mph speeds and elapsed times of 7.0 seconds. The 426 Chrysler-powered fueler is a long way from being "right," which is Art's admission, though he adds that by November of this year it will have all the latest pieces — like a magnesium blower, aluminum heads and other weight-saving alloy pieces. The digger weighs 1380 pounds in the form in which you see it here, and while it is very bulletproof, armor plate is heavy.