"Jade Grenade" AA/FD

Green isn’t supposed to be a good color to paint your race car, but apparently nobody told that to the owners and operators of the famous “Jade Grenade” Top Fuel car. Pete Lenhoff, Ted Thomas and Bill Flurer were the moving forces behind this beautiful car and they proved once and for all that if you combine a machinist, a plumber and an architect you will have the right ingredients for a top notch drag racing team.

The "Jade Grenade" competed mostly on the east coast and for a few years they dominated the Pro Fuel circuit at some of the best tracks in the country. The team won the 1971 Pennsylvania “Dutch Classic” race and then came back to successfully defend their crown a year later. At the ’72 race Ted Thomas drove the car to wins over some of the best drivers in the sport including Sarge Arciero, Tom Raley and Fred Forkner. The final run saw Ted streak to a 6.48 which would stand as low elapsed time of the meet. This latest win came just a few weeks after the team had blasted to a sensational 233 mph speed at the National Open race at New England Dragway which was just one of the ten track records that the team set over a two year span. The “Grenade” also grabbed wins at the Top Fuel show at Quaker City Dragway, the Dixie Classic (where they beat Tommy Ivo) and the Atco NHRA World Championship series event. Everywhere they went, this talented trio was winning races and setting records with one of the most beautiful cars ever to grace the quarter mile.

Even though the car performed very well a lot of historians remember it for it’s unmatched beauty and workmanship. At 205 inches the car was longer than most and with its Don Long chassis, a full body by S & W and paint by the legendary “Jim the Painter” it was prettier than most. A classic 426 cubic inch Chrysler hemi propelled the car and like everything else on the “Grenade” it was always polished to perfection. To help keep the car stable at the tremendous speeds that it was achieving the team installed a front axle foil and, later, a pair of side wings.

And if you’re wondering why they called it the "Grenade," well, that’s because the team almost always used a healthy 98% dose of nitro methane fuel and that was more than enough to make the competitors stand back and take notice of one of the quickest and fastest green cars ever to hit the quarter mile.

The Jade Grenade dragster includes such details as:
- Aerodynamic die-cast 205-inch wheelbase design
- Removable upper body panel exposes detailed interior -
- 426 Chrysler hemi engine that's fully wired with ignition wires and flexible fuel lines
- Hollow simulated M&H slicks on five spoke Halibrand mag wheels
- Detailed tubular framework and fuel tank detail
- Fabric seat belts and shoulder harness with photoetched buckles
- Color scheme detailed from actual vintage racing pictures and reference data from the Grenade crew and   WDIFL.com.

ONLY 1500 were produced! (each car individually numbered 1 to 1500)

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