Legendary drag racer Shirley Muldowney hasn’t raced since Nov. 9, 2003, when she was driving her Top Fuel dragster.

Muldowney is optimistic that will change in 2014.

“The phone rang and it was John Worm of Slingshot Dragsters,” said Muldowney to Competition Plus Saturday at the U.S. Nationals. “They made me a nice proposal, a good offer. He said he had this wonderful idea. He said he wanted to go racing. He wanted to have fun and he wanted to sell chassis. (Worm) proposed like seven races, maybe more. If this nostalgia thing comes together as nicely as it appears it is going to, yeah I will do it, seven or eight races. We are talking to NHRA as to how we are going to do this. John’s people are going to start building the car.”

Legendary drag racer Shirley Muldowney hasn’t raced since Nov. 9, 2003, when she was driving her Top Fuel dragster.

Muldowney is optimistic that will change in 2014.

“The phone rang and it was John Worm of Slingshot Dragsters,” said Muldowney to Competition Plus Saturday at the U.S. Nationals. “They made me a nice proposal, a good offer. He said he had this wonderful idea. He said he wanted to go racing. He wanted to have fun and he wanted to sell chassis. (Worm) proposed like seven races, maybe more. If this nostalgia thing comes together as nicely as it appears it is going to, yeah I will do it, seven or eight races. We are talking to NHRA as to how we are going to do this. John’s people are going to start building the car.”

Worm is the owner of Slingshot Dragsters, a well-known chassis building shop located in Grantville, Pa.

“He wants to exact my 1973 Satellite and it will be a state-of-the-art chassis and everything and it will have that body on it,”Muldowney said. “The last four races I ran in 1973 after the Indy fire, we put a beautiful pink Funny Car (together). It was the only pink Funny Car I had in the three years I drove (Funny Car). We only drove it for three or four races. It was extremely popular. It didn’t even say Shirley on it, it said Cha Cha Muldowney. If it comes together, that will be great. If it doesn’t I’m pretty much done looking unless somebody lays it at my feet.”

According to Muldowney, she wants to make exhibition runs next season at a handful of NHRA national events.

“Our choices are Pomona, Gainesville, Englishtown, Epping, N.H., Norwalk, Indy, Dallas and probably Vegas and the last Pomona,” Muldowney said. “Norwalk is at the top of the list. If I run anything, I will run Norwalk. It will be sort of like an added plus for the fans. It would be like the last run on Friday night and Saturday night. We would have long, smoky burnouts, dry leaves. What they (the fans) want. They are so tired of this cookie cutter stuff. All I know is what the fans tell me.”

Muldowney said if the exhibition schedule comes to fruition she will likely race against Bruce Larson.

“Bruce is a good driver,” Muldowney said. “I trust him in the other lane.”

Muldowney admitted she has been working on returning to racing for years, but she couldn’t put anything together.

“The fans have been dogging me,” said Muldowney about always being asked when she was going to race again. “I have tried everything beyond everything. The last time I ran I was running 4.50s at 327 mph. I have had numerous deals come and go and fall through and a lot of people who meant well, but they just couldn’t seem to pull it off.”

Muldowney said she also has a chance to drive Doug Herbert’s land speed car. Herbert’s building a streamliner which he is going to attempt to go over 500 mph in to break the world land speed record at Bonneville (Utah) Salt Flats.

“He (Herbert) will make the initial runs in the car and I can understand that,” Muldowney said. “Then, he will turn the car over to me. It will not be this year because the car isn’t finished yet. It is three-quarters done.”

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