DICK LANDY

DYNO TUNING AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH

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Dick Landy, the popular cigar-chomping engine builder and driver who campaigned successful Dodge factory race cars in a variety of classes throughout the 1960s and early '70s, died Jan. 11,2007 of kidney failure. He was 69. As a pioneer in the Funny Car and Pro Stock ranks, Landy acquired a winning reputation in NHRA national-event and match-race competition.

As a pioneer in the Funny Car and Pro Stock ranks, Landy acquired a winning reputation in NHRA national-event and match-race competition. Landy's considerable skills as a driver and engine builder were equaled by his flair for showmanship, as evidenced by his trademark cigar and bumper-scraping wheelstands.

Landy began racing in 1956 as a freshman in high school. Originally, Landy began his Pro racing career driving Fords and in 1962, he got a new 406-cid Ford Galaxie, which would have been a good car, but that was the year that Chrysler got into drag racing, and it made all the Fords and Chevys obsolete. Landy switched to a Plymouth with a three-speed manual transmission, then got an automatic-transmission-equipped Plymouth in 1963. Landy campaigned this '67 Hemi Dodge and was one of Pro Stock's heavy hitters in its inagaural season in 1970 and drove his Challenger to a win at the Summernationals.

Chrysler made a 180-degree change in its drag racing strategy in 1967 and added the new Dodge and Plymouth Drag Racing Clinics, headed respectively by Landy and Sox & Martin. The program was created in conjunction with NHRA's new multi-class Super Stock format, which showcased the array of Detroit's factory muscle cars that were being built at that time.