Lex Swayne felt a project of this magnitude needed to be shared with the racing world.

Swayne, a noted historian of Australian drag racing and journalist, has successfully recreated the legendary Goodnight, Keith and Williamson AA/Gas Dragster.

The recreation was unveiled at the California Hot Rod Reunion, October 18-20, at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, Bakersfield. Swayne’s project began in 2007 as a collaboration with original driver Bob Keith, of Coarsegold, California.

Lex Swayne felt a project of this magnitude needed to be shared with the racing world.

Swayne, a noted historian of Australian drag racing and journalist, has successfully recreated the legendary Goodnight, Keith and Williamson AA/Gas Dragster.

The recreation was unveiled at the California Hot Rod Reunion, October 18-20, at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, Bakersfield. Swayne’s project began in 2007 as a collaboration with original driver Bob Keith, of Coarsegold, California.

Goodnight, Keith and Williamson AA/Gas Dragster was the world’s first dragster equipped with a supercharged Big Block Chevy and it has been faithfully re-created to appear just as it did in 1966.

Originally, the plan was that the rebuilt front-engined dragster would simply be a museum piece, with the chassis and engine constructed in Australia, so Keith shipped the body to Australia in 2007 where it was put on display at Swayne’s home track Willowbank Raceway during the Winternationals. But in 2008 Keith contacted Kent Fuller, who constructed the original car in 1965 and Fuller offered to replicate the 1965 chassis. The opportunity to greatly enhance the car’s authenticity was too good to miss, and Fuller was commissioned to construct the car.

In this video, Swayne discusses the project in detail.

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