#1203 - Jim Dunn's "Dunn & Reath"

This is the third installment of "The Flopper's Series"... As they barnstormed across the country from track to track, the "Floppers" were piloted by the best in the business. From their fire burnouts to their ground-shaking runs, Funny Car pilots risked it all every time their custom fiberglass body lowered over them as they sat between monster racing slicks. The "Floppers" capture the free spirit of these quarter-mile warriors and their magnificent nitro-burning machines.

"The Floppers"…Thirteen-Twenty's 1/24th scale series of nostalgic Funny Cars…have many of the same features found on "The Fuelers" series, including cloth seat belts, rubber fuel and oil lines, ignition wires, soft tires. The diecast body is removable to show the detailed diecast chassis or can be displayed in the up position with the vintage style prop bar. Tooling also includes three different styles of front and rear wheels (see below), multiple injector and motor combinations.

Legend, hero, icon, husband, father, grandfather, this is Jim Dunn. Born March 28th, 1934 in Artesia, Ca. Jim now resides in Long Beach, Ca. with his wife Diane. Jim was a Los Angeles County Firefighter for almost three decades beginning in 1969 until his retirement in 1994. In 1990 Jim retired from driving, becoming crew chief on the Snickers funny car. In 1992 Jim would once again have his own team . Many believe the greatest accomplishment a team can enjoy is a victory in Indy at the U.S. Nationals. Jim, Diane, Jon and the entire team felt that exileration in 1999 when they won at Indy.

"One of the great things about drag racing is that there is no "right way" to do anything. The challenge of making your car go faster than the other guy's has been with us for as long as we've had the wheel, and that's a few years now. That's why, when Jim Dunn came out with his rear-engine funny car in 1972, most people were a bit skeptical, but after the "Supernationals" that year, most of those skeptics became believers. Jim Dunn, the fireman from LaMirada, California, figured that if the dragsters could run better with the engine in the rear, then so could the funny cars. The problem was that no one had ever been able to make one of these creations competitive before; in fact, they could hardly keep them on the ground…literally! But, after a few false starts, "Big" Jim came to Ontario Motor Speedway and did what had previously been deemed impossible; he won the sport's biggest race in the sport's strangest car. The guy who used to race a short wheelbase Volkswagen with a Chrysler motor in it, had made a rear-engine funny car that could not only compete with the conventional cars, it could beat them. And to make matters even sweeter, in the first round of that great race, Jim beat Don Prudhomme who was debuting a brand new, state-of-the-art car that came complete with low aerodynamics, louvers in the hood and special bubbles over the front wheels for clearance. So much for state of the art, huh?" - Bob Frey

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ONLY 5000 will be produced! (each car individually numbered 1 to 5000)
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