Chip Woodall, the 1972 NHRA Springnationals Top Fuel champion, had waited a long time to sit behind the wheel of a nitro-burning dragster. Saturday he got his chance to feel a cackle in the seat of his pants.

"I think this is the greatest deal, getting to do this after forty years," admitted Woodall.

Chip Woodall, the 1972 NHRA Springnationals Top Fuel champion, had waited a long time to sit behind the wheel of a nitro-burning dragster. Saturday he got his chance to feel a cackle in the seat of his pants.

"I think this is the greatest deal, getting to do this after forty years," admitted Woodall.

Woodall piloted Beaver and Pat Wasson's re-creation of the Peebles & Williams "Gold Car" during the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield, Ca.

Woodall only starts the engine and whacks the throttle a few times while in neutral, but given the opportunity he'd jump right back into the big show.

"I'd do it again in a heartbeat," Woodall admitted. "I'd like to go 300 miles per hour, something I never got the chance to do."

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