Sammy Miller (engineer) - Wikipedia
Sammy Miller (nicknamed "Slam'n Sammy") (born Samuel Anthony Miller; April 15, 1945 – October 29, 2002) was a dragster and funny car builder in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] [2] Miller was responsible for the "Miller Wedge" digger in 1974 and the rocket-powered Vanishing Point Vega FC in the 1980s. [3]
A guy from Jersey, a peroxide rocket, and his momma’s ... - Hemmings
Nov 12, 2020 · By 1977, when Miller debuted the first of his Vanishing Point rocket Funny Cars – this one based on a Vega – he’d pushed his quarter-mile elapsed times down to around 4.30 seconds, largely by keeping the throttle mashed until he …
VANISHING POINT World’s Fastest Vega - LS1Tech.com
Oct 20, 2014 · We’ve all seen funny cars powered by Nitro Methane, jet cars powered by Kerosene, but the wildest of all drag racers were the rocket cars. These cars were powered by rockets, similar to those used by NASA and the US Air Force and used a variety of fuels.
Tributes to Sammy Miller - Eurodragster
Sammy's next rocket FC was the first Vanishing Point, a Vega-bodied car in which he recorded the first ever three-second pass in Florida in 1979, and in which he first broke the 300 mph barrier in Europe, at Santa Pod in July of the same year.
Motorized Freak of the Week: Sammy Miller’s Rocket Funny Car
Feb 20, 2009 · This car led Miller to build a series of Vanishing Point Funny Cars that would ultimately be the quickest and fastest on any quarter-mile track in the world. He made a best-ever pass of 3.54 seconds at 386 mph in the early 1980s over at Santa Pod in England.
Remembering Slammin' Sammy Miller - Drag Race Central
In 1984, Miller, at the controls of his Vanishing Point rocket, powered Vega bodied funny car, tripped the timers at Santa Pod Raceway in the United Kingdom at 3.58 and 386.26 mph. That made him the quickest and fastest ever to race down a quarter mile at that moment in time.
Rocket Funny Car Vanishing Point in the Pits - YouTube
A close up pit view of Vanishing Point the quickest and fastest Rocket Powered Funny Car on earth. Includes some footage of the late great Sammy Miller, the ...
Drag Racing Story of the Day! - Drag List
Sam Miller went from East Coast match race fuel racer to become the quickest and fastest funny car racer in the world with his Vanishing Point entries. When Rocket Cars were outlawed in the States, Sammy took his act to England, where he became a national treasure in …
Slammin' Sammy's Rocket Funny Car Facts - Drag List
At the '81 Internationals at Santa Pod Raceway, Sammy driving the "Oxygen" rocket dragster raced Al Eierdam in the "Vanishing Point" rocket funny car. Al won the first of a best of three with a holeshot, 4.79/228 to Sammy's 4.67/267.
Sammy Miller – British Drag Racing Hall of Fame
Sammy’s second Rocket FC was the first Vanishing Point, a Vega-bodied car. It was with this car that he made his UK début in 1978 where he quickly made his mark running 4.40/290.