Don with his hauler
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Don and Tom McEwen
Don and Tom McEwen
Don and a lady
Don and Shirley Muldowney
Don and Roland Leong
Don and Big Daddy Don garlits
Don and Tom McEwen
Don and Tom McEwen
Don and Tom McEwen
Don with Linda vaughn
Don with some ladies
Don with Tony Stewart
Don with Tom McEwen
Don with Linda vaughn
Don and some of the Wally's he earned
Don with his driver Larry Dixon
Don won this race
Don wins 1966 NHRA Winternationals in Roland Leong's car
Don wins at Half Moon Bay in California
Don wins at Firebird in Arizona
Don wins at the Winternationals
Don with Wally parks as he wins a wally
Don with a fueler
Don with the Greeer Black Prudomme fampus car he won over 90% of 100 races
Don with his top fueler
Don with the Baney Ed Pink car
Don with his car
Don and Tommy Ivo on their very first barnstorming road trip
Don with one of his many top fuelers
Don with the Greer Black Prudomme car
Don with his car
Don with Roland Leong and the Hawaiian
Don with the car
Don and his car
Don working on his car
Don looking at his battered car
Don with his Wedge Fueler
Don with his car
Don with his crew
Don looking at the tire
Don with his car
Don with his ride
Don by the big Ford powered top fueler
Don with Tommy Ivo and his 4 engine dragster
Don and a crowd around the Zeuschel tuned car
Don and Roland Leong
Don on the line ready to race
Don in the car
Don getting pushed back to his pit
Don in an early ride
Don in the car
Don on a burnout
Don in the Greer Black Prudomme car
Don in it again
Don at Ascot ready to run
Don with the chute out
Don in the seat
Don in his seat
Don in his funny car
Don buckling in
Don moving to the line
Don getting pushed
Don at a cacklefest
Don moving towards the starting line
Don with patience
Don in the funny car
Don and Dave Zeuschel
Don in his office
Don all suited up
Don getting a push
Don with Lou Baney
Don relaxing in the car
Don in the famous Greer Black Prudomme car
Don in the car
Cacklefest for the Greer Black Prudomme car
Greer Black Prudomme car
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And lastly it's a cacklefest
Don's silver car
The silver car
Don's car
Another Prudomme car
Pretty car
Nice view
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Don's car
A rear engned model
Another shot of the Greer Black Prudomme car in red
The hot wheels car
The car in the pits
An older car Don drove
Hot wheels car going to the starting line
Don next to Tommy Ivo
Don ready to go
The Hot Wheels haulers of Don and Tom McEwen
Don giving a kid an autograph
Don with his ride
Don in his funny
Don in the pits
Don's Hauler
Don's hauler in the race shop
Don off the line in the silver car
Don at OCIR ready to blast off
Don ready for the green light
Don in the Baney car
Don in the yellow G B P car
Don on the way to race
Don has the fire lit
Don to the line at Ascot with Keith Black in the red shirt
A group of antique cars including The Magicar, The Vagabond, Greer-Black-Prudhomme and The Western Mfg. Special
Another pic of The foursome
Don in a Zeuschel built motored car
Don off the line
Don pulling the wheels
Don on the starting line
Don doing a burnout
Don ready
Don pulls the wheels
Don smokes it
Don boils the tires
Don in the Hawaiian at Pomona
Don on the gas
Don on a run
Don at Irwindale
Don moving out
Don in the Brand Special
Don smokin' it
Don doing a burnout
Don smokin' it
Don blastin off
Don smoking and pulling he wheels
One more wild launch
Wheels up
Don on a run
Don smokes it in an early ride
Don in Baney's car
Don at the Winternationals in Pomona, CA
Don ready
Don out of the hole
Don moving up to run
Don on the gas
Don moving out
Don leaving the line
Don smoking a burnout
Don in the Skoal Bandit
Don spinning his tires
Don with the chute out
Don's race headquarters
Don boils em'
Don hits it
Don burning out
Don going
Don against Tom McEwen at Carlsbad, Ca
Don out by inches
Don against the Sour Sisters Kenny Safford
Don against Danny Ongais
Don in the Hawaiian
Don inside in a smokefest at Lions
Don racing a jet dragster at Lions
Don against Jim Nicoll at 1970 US Nationals
Don against Don Garlits
Don against Bub Reese
Don on the right back in the day
Don against Jimmy Nix
Don against Tommy Ivo
Don out past the lights at Pomona
Don at OCIR in 1973
Don gets Eddie Hill
Don and Kenny Bernstien
Don's Army funny against Don Garlits top fueler
Don against Tom McEwen
Don and Tom McEwen
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Don's Corvette
Don's Corvette
Don at Pomona Winternationals
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Don on a smokey
Don getting ready
Don in a Skoal Bandit
Don and the Army car
Don with his crew
Don on a smoky pass
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Don at the Supernationals in the now Defunct Ontario, Ca big track
Don on a smoky burnout
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A logo from a great building time in drag racing the Snake and the Mongoose
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Poster for a race
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One of Don's Helmets
Hot Rod Magazine
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Prudhomme crewed for "TV Tommy" Ivo on Ivo's twin-engined slingshot in 1960.
In 1962, Prudhomme was a partner in the Greer-Black-Prudhomme fuel digger, which earned the best win record in National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) history, before switching to Funny Car. He would win the NHRA FC championship four times in his thirty five year career. He earned the nickname "The Snake" in high school. He was the first Funny Car driver to exceed 250 mph.
In 1965, he faced Hot Wheels teammate Tom McEwen at the Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races, held at Riverside Raceway, "one of the most significant drag racing events" of that era; ultimately, Top Fuel Eliminator (TFE) went to Jim Warren.
He raced a Shelby Super Snake in the 1968 and 1969 seasons, powered by a Ford engine instead of the ubiquitous Chrysler Hemi. When Ford discontinued the program, Prudhomme went into the "Snake and Mongoo$e" phase of his career.
Prudhomme was known for his yellow 1970 Plymouth Barracuda in which he match raced Tom McEwen in his red 1970 Plymouth Duster, named Mongoose. Both drivers gained wider public attention from Mattel's "Hot Wheels" toy versions of the cars, released in 1970. Hot Wheels celebrated their 35th anniversary in 2005 with a two-day event.
He retired in 1994 to manage his own racing team. With driver Larry Dixon, Prudhomme's team won the Top Fuel championship in 2002 and 2003. In 2009, Dixon signed to drive the Al-Anabi Top Fuel Dragster, and Spencer Massey took over Prudhomme's car. At the end of the 2009 racing season, sponsorship went away and Prudhomme retired from active racing.
Prudhomme's accomplishments in racing are featured in the 2013 movie Snake and Mongoose which features the rivalry between "The Snake" and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen. The film also discusses how both drivers brought drag racing into mainstream with the Mattel Hot Wheels sponsorship. The movie was inspired by the book Snake vs. Mongoose: How a Rivalry Changed Drag Racing Forever, written by Tom Madigan.
Don Prudhomme's early career is documented in the book, Six Seconds to Glory by Hal Higdon. The book covers the 1973 Nationals held in Indianapolis, a race in which Prudhomme was battling for his first Funny Car season title.
In 2000, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1991.
On the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers 1951-2000, Don Prudhomme was ranked #3.
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