Originally this car starts as a wheel driven competitor for the FIA record, but the racer didn't work the way as designed...and you can say...it was the forerunner of Rob Freyvogel's streamliner.
it was converted into a rocket car, used at the quarter mile drag strip, using solid rockets which burned for calculated time.
sponsor changed the name, originally American Spirit (also known under a other SoA name), after the conversion to the rockets, Yellow Zonker (painted yellow) and English Leather (painted brown).
Finally Craig took the car to Bonneville to get the quarter mile record...the out coming was not exactly what he was looking for.....but speed and time are correct as shown and the speed would have been good enough for the record book. Craig walked away with a stiff neck.....the car wasn't useable after coming to the halt.....and didn't run again...the racer was roughly rebuilt, went around the states for awhile and nearly forgotten - a couple years ago someone found the racer and restored them back to more or less the original shape.
The rocket shown at the picture....this version is different to the rockets Craig used at the drag strip....due to this there are no picture (from the rear end) from the Bonneville attempt it is not known what rocket configuration the racer run at that day.....
also the paint design, to my understanding, was never used by Craig during his active time at the drag strip....
hope this answered some questions about this racer....and yes....this racer is a piece of LSR history.....
