This type of vehicle was still so fresh and transformative that the sport had yet not settled on a common name in print, the new term "funny car" was still expressed just like that, all lower case and sporting quotation marks. Norm" Kraus stormed Lions Drag Strip with the former Color Me Gone factory car, now sporting a blower and nitro. "Stocker" fans amazed in January by altered-wheelbase, carbureted Dodges and Plymouths smashing the 10-second barrier saw elapsed times plunge to 8.63 by November, when Gary Dyer and "Mr. Not coincidentally, quarter-mile performance improved at rates never seen before, and rarely since. (See Mel Bashore's comprehensive list at .) Unknown numbers of lesser-knowns also perished at the many obscure tracks operating under media's radar. This year was also among the deadliest ever, particularly for dragster drivers: Among the fatalities reported in the weekly drag rags were Denny Miliani, Lou Cangelose, Tex Randall, "Q-Ball" Wale, Charles Minor, Leon Hamel, Dave Dangerfield, and Gary Taylor. If you were lucky enough to be alive in '65 and paying attention, you may well have experienced the golden-est single season of drag racing's Golden Age - and of every era since.
Publisher's Note: Duplicate issues of 1965 drag rags and mags are becoming available from the Wallace Family Archives ( ).
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