Date:         Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:44:31 -0500
Reply-To:     Daniel Brideau <dan@HOBBYETC.COM>
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From:         Daniel Brideau <dan@HOBBYETC.COM>
Subject:      Re: NVC: Top Fuel Dragster Stats
Comments: To: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
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>  One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more
>  horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.

Or, more than 60 Vanagons.

60 Vanagons bumper to bumper would be ~900 feet long.  A quarter mile is
1320 feet (88 Vanagons long)

If your dragster would develop ~7,250HP, you could string enough equivalent
Vanagons together to cover the full quarter mile.

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