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80s Funny Cars: West Coast Racers

By Danny White

Drag racing had its own wild and wooly characters.

Mike "The Hippie" Mitchell was one of them. Mitchell used to sport a flattop before becoming "enlightened." Mike used to threaten drag racing journalists that brought up his past. He even painted "Impeach Nixon" on the back of his car, complete with a swastika replacing the x in Nixon�s last name.

That did not sit too well with some drag racing conservatives.

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Mike Mitchell was a serious racer nonetheless. The wildly painted M&S Motors Corvette was his final race car. It was an average runner with best of at Mitchell and Lorry Azevedo both drove the beautiful machine in until Mitchell retired.

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Ron Colson was one of the best funny car racers of the s, driving the "Chi-Town Hustler" and "Hawaiian" funny cars to fame.

In , Colson raced the Jamie Sarte built "King�s Hawaiian Bread" Omni for Roland Leo