Jason Rupert's drag racing career has been a storybook tale.

The multi-time Nostalgia Funny Car champion will soon begin writing another chapter.

Rupert purchased the complete Funny Car operation from the late Steve Plueger's estate.

"We gave him a deposit, and unfortunately he passed away before the deal was done," Rupert explained. "It went into the court system for a little while, so we didn’t get it as soon as we wanted to, but it all worked out. Everything was as agreed on. Paul Trabue and Plueger’s guys helped us get everything put in the trailer. I’m really sad about Steve passing away. We were excited for him and a couple of his guys to go with us. Now he’ll be with us in spirit."

Rupert, the son of former nitro racer Frank Rupert, has always envisioned his future including nitro racing on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.

"It’s been in the back of my mind ever since I started racing," Rupert said. "I ran the alcohol car for a long time and then the nostalgia thing, we started doing that, we’ve done really well with that. But I’m a realist enough to know that if I was to put one together myself, it would take me so long to put it together, and Steve gave us the opportunity to kind of leap forward on that and buy a car that was complete, that was a running car.

"So now I’m just kind of going through everything. It’s like that show Storage Wars. Every time I open a cabinet, it’s like, ‘Wow, look at that."

Rupert has no set timetable for his NHRA debut other than to say it will be when the car is ready and the team can be competitive.

"I’m going to try and do it as fast as I can, but I’m not going to cut any corners," Rupert said. "I want the thing to run good and be competitive and not hurt a bunch of stuff. I know with any of these cars you can hurt stuff even if you are ready, so I understand that part of it, but it’s kind of up in the air when we’re ready to do it, and it’s right, and I have some people that are going to help me out. When we all agree the thing’s ready to go to the race track, it will go to the race track."

So what's the plan for Nostalgia Funny Car racing?

“I’m not sure if I’m through racing, but I am going to concentrate efforts on the big-show car for sure,” Rupert said. “It means a lot (to win CHRR) because there were a bunch of people speculating we had some sort of illegal device on our car and that’s the reason we were blowing it up because we had to take it off and that wasn’t the case at all. To come back out here, and if this is my last race in Nostalgia, to end my Nostalgia racing career like this is the perfect way to do it. It means a lot.”