Re-Entry (dragster)


Re-Entry is a streamliner dragster.
Built by Roger Lindwall, Re-Entry seems to have benefitted from his experience in hydroplane racing, featuring a semi-enclosed cockpit and enclosed engine and rear end, mated to a typical Top Fuel car's bicycle wheels, dropped axle, and zoomie pipes. The body was all-aluminum. Re-Entry was powered by a hemi.
Re-Entry debuted at Cordova Dragway, Illinois, in 1966, where she turned in the first pass for a rear-engined dragster.
At Indianapolis the next weekend, driver Wayne Hill clocked a 9.52 second pass at, only to have the car pirouette through the traps, wrecking it. Lindwall did not rebuild the car and quit drag racing.