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Featuring a Dragmaster chassis, a fully streamlined body built by Jim Burrell, and a four-cylinder Pontiac Tempest engine that was destroked to 180-cid and equipped with a GM 3-71 supercharger to create 320 horsepower, the Attempt 1 was one of four cars that Mickey Thompson used to break eight of eight international records and six of 10 American national records at March Air Force Base in July 1961. These marks, along with the 28 world, international, and national records that Thompson had established in 1959 and 1960, "Gave him more [records] than any man has ever held at a given time," as quoted from the October 1961 issue of Car Life magazine. The car, restored by Jim Travis of Whittier, Calif., is owned by Danny Thompson of Telluride, Colo.

(© 1999 NHRA Photographic Services)

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