L.A. Dart (car)

L.A. Dart was a series of wheelstander funny cars that competed in drag racing in the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Each car was a Dodge Dart fitted with a supercharged Chrysler Hemi engine mounted at the rear, and the shift of weight toward the back let the car run the whole quarter mile on its rear wheels at speeds above 100 miles per hour. The driver was Wild Bill Shrewsberry, who steered by working the service brake pedal on the left wheel and a go-kart brake lever on the right wheel, and who was skilled enough to spin the car around at the end of the strip and wheelstand it back to the start. The cars were sponsored by the Dodge and Plymouth dealers of Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The 1970 version was made into a 1/25 scale plastic model kit and a 1/64 scale diecast model, and Shrewsberry still owns that car, updated for 1971 and being restored.