2 seater top fuel

[bananaman1]

Just been reading about Larry Dixon and the issues he's having :-/.....somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall Rico Anthes had a 2 seater many years ago ?

[Benni]

Rico´s 2-seated TF was in existence for one or two seasons, was still tagged and driven by Gary Page (If I remember correctly).
The plan was to have a ride in this for lucky Nitro Olympics spectators who entered a lottery, or potential TF sponsors.
But the long wheelbase was not good for running straight, very strangely, the car started weaving around in a pendular motion,
and I think no run under full power was ever completed.

There were , however, some lucky winners who had a startup and burnout experience, and a brief launch as passenger,
this club had very few members before the project was aborted.
The car was shortened again and used as a film vehicle in an awfully cheesy 80s TV series,
where evil Crew chiefs could change tuning parameters from the pits while the car was racing.

It ended up as a "Gate Guardian" for the NitrOlympX for a few years, in "Black Devil" livery.

[IanUAE]

Not Top Fuel but Bahrain have 3 seater drag cars for "passenger" laps.

[bananaman1]

So my mind wasn't deceiving me :-)....thanks for the info.

[Benni]

I have to corretc my post from yesterday after talking to Starter Erich :

The two-seater is in existence, on display in "Technik Museum Speyer", the sister Museum to Sinsheim.