Ronnie Scrima is an American dragster and funny car

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builder. He was responsible for the

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dragster '' Scrimaliner'' in 1964. After Logghe Bros. (based in Detroit) proved unable to keep up with demand, a funny car chassis-building industry developed. Scrima joined several others in the business. Scrima founded Exhibition Engineering, and built both “dune buggy”- and “fueler”-style funny car chassis. He also built ''Travelin' Javelin'', a

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-powered '69

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Funny Car, for car owner Gary Crane, to be driven by the then up-and-coming Dale Armstrong.Burgess, Phil, NHRA ''National Dragster'' Editor. ”A history of AMC Funny Cars” written 16 May 2014
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Notes

Sources

*McClurg, Bob. "50 Years of Funny Cars: Part 2" in ''Drag Racer'', November 2016, pp. 35–50. *Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in ''Hot Rod'', April 2017, pp. 30-43. *Burgess, Phil, NHRA ''National Dragster'' Editor. ”A history of AMC Funny Cars” written 16 May 2014
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