“TV” Tommy Ivo began acting in films in the early 1940s, ... Ivo’s best known dragster, called Showboat, ... Instead of having a single top fuel engine located in front of the driver, ...

Part 3 of Hot Rod magazine's biography of drag racer Tommy Ivo. ... mid-engine design had a revolutionary effect on Top Fuel. ... speed shop was my old trailer with my four-motor dragster in it.

Tommy won Top Gas Eliminator with his Hilborn-injected, normally aspirated '57 Buick dragster. Tommy's win was overshadowed by all the hoopla directed to the Fuel Cars.

The dragster was campaigned until 1963 when Ivo opted to return to Top Fuel racing and sold Showboat to crewman Tom McCourry. The race car visited drag strips across the U.S. a few more years ...

Tommy Ivo: What I'd Do ... And that’s the year Hot Rod decided to put you on the cover with your now-legendary four-engine dragster. ... Don Garlits, Top Fuel Drag-Racing Great, Interview.

Every professional sport has had its share of characters. All the major stick-and-ball activities are peppered with colorful types who have given fans something – or someone — to root ...

For hardcore drag racing enthusiasts, the name Tommy Ivo is right up there at the top of the food chain. A constant presence at the drag strip for decades between 1950 and 1970, but also on the ...