From the Mad Mike Collection!
Something important to know about the Mad Mike Collection. Unless otherwise noted many of the replicas being offered from the Mad Mike Collection will be rated as MINT because that is just what they are. Again unless otherwise noted most have never been removed from the factory packaging they came in. Many images that will be used in our ads will be from our archives of trackside images we shot or of diecast we have sold over the years. Box condition will be part of our rating process as well.
From 1320 Inc. #1209. 1/24th scale.
Mike Mitchell's "WORLD'S FASTEST HIPPIE" NHRA Plymouth Funny Car
MINT!! Never removed from factory packaging. Image of replica on display is from our archives.
Seeing the handwriting on the wall, or maybe getting the word from some Mahareshi, Mike took his long hair and his hippie attitude out of the gas classes and he moved to the fuel funny car ranks in the mid 1970’s where he competed with a Plymouth Barracuda that was built by chassis guru Woody Gilmore. And even though the car had all the good parts, it was never a threat on the national circuit although Mike did have moderate success with it at a handful of divisional races. Unfortunately for Mike the car met a terrible fate when it burned to the ground in an accident at Irwindale Raceway at the end of 1974. Still, besides the classic pictures of his car in ashes at the end of the strip, Mike may be remembered most for the bumper sticker that he had on the back of the car, a bumper sticker that simply read, “Impeach Nixon.” Hey, this was the 1970’s and it was the Watergate era and this was Mike Mitchell, the world’s fastest hippie!!
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