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In 1967 the team became the first to go 200 mph on gas, and they won the United Drag Racing Association Championship. Aside from the national event stuff the car was traversing the country and hammering on all comers.
The team had fun with the whole train theme as well. Peters would wear an engineer’s cap and overalls at the track and the rest of the team would all be equipped with engineer’s caps as well.
That fun was at the expense of exasperated competitors who simply could not find a way around the massive car. These guys never won with luck. They were, at one point, averaging about half a second quicker than the rest of the field with consistency. That’s brutal.
In 1970 and 1971 Peters teamed up with a man named Walt Rhodes to run the car. They ditched the Mouse motors for a pair of pissed off 428ci Chrysler Hemis. They also painted the car black, a departure from the traditional red scheme that it had worn for a decade.
Despite the additional weight of the big Chrysler lumps, the car was still unstoppable. The team won the 1971 GatorNationals with the big Chrysler set up. It was to be the last big win for the car as the class was scrapped the following year and Peters had no interest in going down the Super Comp road.
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