It was pretty clear that the future of the Funny Car formula was set in stone with a tube-frame, front-engine, flip-top layout as the way forward. In the Jan. 1967 issue of , Chevoom was listed as ...

The first rear-engine Funny Car is the Dunn & Reath '72 'Cuda, and it's driven by the world's fastest fireman. Jim Dunn.

You can't talk about rear-engine cars without the Volkswagen Beetle. It's tradition, or an old charter, or something. It's also one of the most important cars in automotive history. Ferdinand Porsche ...

The car was totaled by Norm Weekly at Irwindale Dragway in California, and never rebuilt as rear engine funny cars to this day have never been successful. The best it ever went was 8.0 in the ...

“It looks like 1966 will be the year of the funny car.” That’s Maynard Rupp quoted by Howard Pennington in the May 1966 issue ofCar Craftmagazine about drag rac ...

Unlike the rear-engine, Top Fuel “slingshot dragsters,” front-engine Funny Cars must have full body work to resemble a current production car. But Charger design cues abound.

The 911 was the climax of Porsche's rear-engine madness, not its genesis. After designing the original Beetle, the first Porsche production car with seriously sporting intentions was the shapely 356.

That strange little car happens to be one of the most influential cars of all time, and I don’t think it gets nearly the respect it deserves. Want to know why?

It turns out that the development of the car that became the R50 Mini Cooper, launched in 2001, is rather fascinating. According to this great report in The Unofficial Austin-Rover Web Resource ...

There's really nothing amusing about replacing or rebuilding an engine, but when you're in the National Hot Rod Association's funny-looking Super Stock drag-racing business, it's all part of the gig.

Full disclosure: The sports car and its sibling shown here were built in the 1930s. The term "rear engine" usually isn't associated with , but in fact I've recently driven three Heckwagens (German ...