Chris Davis

_Owner/Driver Bio

Chris D. Davis, 37 years old
Years racing: 17
Having never been to a Drag Race, once I was introduced to it on a hands on basis - Not Just TV - I was hooked. It has since become my passion. Having raced from door cars to carbureted injected, and now blown alcohol big block Chevys it's time to progress to blown nitro! We have been very successful with my slingshot dragster, match racing, local racing and running select goodguys events. The dragster has always been very competitive and won many races as wells as runner up at the famed March Meet. Our new funny car will hopefully, no it will, be fun and competitive.

_Car Information

This car has been completely restored and updated to current fuel funny car specs. The chassis has had extensive work done to it (new roll cage, etc.) The chassis has also had every part replaced including the addition of front brakes and new rear brakes. Stopping good!

The body is another story. It sat in the Puyallup area for over 20 years under a pine tree along with numerous other bodies of various makes. It required completely stripping of the old layers - and I mean layers - of paint down to the original gellcoat before any repairs were made. The tinwork, which sucked, was also gutted and I spent 2 ½ months of evenings designing, building and installing, very tedious. Once the new tin was installed the paint process could begin. The tin had to be in so that the car wasn't so floppy, hence the name "Floppers". Another couple months of fiberglass repair and bodywork I had it ready for paint. The gold isn't paint bus 4 jars of gold flake mixed in Valspar clear, one quart at a time, then the silver flake panel was painted on (3 cans of that). Then the fantastic airbrush work, all done in transparent candy paints. Then 2 more gallons of clear to burry everything. That's when the fun stopped, I spent 2 weeks wet sanding and buffing to knot it down flat, my fingertips literally were bleeding and no fingerprints left. Cool, huh!