Pacer's Auto drag racing team

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Pacer's Auto was a popular and record-setting drag racing team in the early 1950s and 1960s.

Based in Oceanside, New York on Long Island, The Pacer's "Snizek & Dodge Racing Team" - George Snizek, driver, and Charlie Dodge (1931-2002), head wrench - was a crowd favorite on the drag strip, always delighting fans with tire-smoking performances from their Tasmanian Devil, a Chryslerhemi-powered 23T Altered Roadster, which set numerous track, class and speed records across the AA/A, CC/FD, & A/FD classes.

The Pacers team was also a founding member of the CARS Magazine Racing Team, as well as Official Road Test Consultants for that publication. They were the east coast distributors of Nitro-Alcohol Racing Fuel.

[edit] Record, honors, awards, and stats

  • NHRA Record AA/Altered 154.90MPH. Atco, NJ June 16, 1963
  • Best Appearing Car & Crew, 1963 NHRA Nationals Indianapolis, IN.
  • NHRA Record AA/Altered 161.87 MPH @ 9.56 SEC. 1964 NHRA Nationals, Indianapolis, IN.
  • Best Appearing Car of Meet NHRA 1st Regional Meet of 1965. Cecil County, MD in A/FD Class 8.81SEC.
  • NHRA CLASS Record CC/FD 165.13 MPH @ 9.34SEC. Island Dragway May 22, 1966.

[edit] Reference articles


HOT ROD Magazine, August 1991, Rear Cover.
Rod Action Magazine, September 1975, "The East Remembered", Page 9.
CARS Magazine, July 1966, "Build A C/Stock Record Breaker", Cover, Page 18-22,75.
CARS Magazine, July 1966, "CARS Fueler goes 7.65", Cover, Page 3.
CARS Magazine, June 1966, "CARS Builds a Fueler- Part III Body Construction", Pages 36-40.
CARS Magazine, June 1965, "Setting up a CM/SP Sting Ray".
Rodder and Super Stock Magazine, March 1965, "Bella Rita I". Cover, Pages 29-32.
Rodder & Super Stock Magazine, March 1965, "Comet Cyclone".
HOT ROD MAGAZINE, July 1965, "TAZMANIAN DEVIL", Pages 48-49.
Drag Racing Magazine, January 1965, "Five Big Days", Pages 21,65.
CARS Magazine, October 1964,"CARS Goes Dragging", Cover, Pages 30-33.
HOT ROD Magazine, November 1964, "National Record Chart", Page.79. & Page.80.
HOT ROD Magazine, December 1964, "FAST'N'FANCY" by Dick Wells.
Science & Mechanics Magazine, May 1964,"Ten Hottest Hot Rods", Cover, Pages 44-45.
HOT ROD Magazine, November 1963, "Best Appearing Crew Award, Pacers Auto Car Club", Pages 30-31.
Rodders Manual, July 1962 Cover.
Diggers, Funnies, Gassers & Altereds: Drag Racing's Golden Era by Bob McClurg. "Tasmanian Devil AA/A" Chapter Three, Page 52.