Only a very select number of individuals can ever say that they’ve been rear-ended by a Funny Car — those rare instances generally occurring in the shutdown area or after turning the corner at the top end of the track and striking a stopped car. Well, you can now add another name to that list, as the driver of this Ford Mustang got a mirror-full of the Funny Car behind him as he staged to make a lap down a scenic raceway in British Columbia, Canada last weekend.

This mostly stock appearing Mustang, driven by Darcy Fehr was lined up alongside a street roadster while competing at the annual Thunder In The Alberni Valley race at the Port Alberni Airport on Vancouver Island when, out of nowhere, the Funny Car driven by Gordy Smart plowed into the back of the Mustang, wedging its way underneath and lifting the car up off the ground.

If you listen closely, you can hear Smart’s Funny Car getting after it back in the burnout box, and that was largely confirmed by a local newspaper, that reported Smart was “putting on a smoke show” in the burnout box, when the car prematurely took off and slammed into the back of Fehr at a rather high rate of speed. The incident clearly startled — and may have perhaps knocked the wind right out of — Fehr, who slowly inches forward without making any attempt to jump out and assess the situation. Meanwhile, the tattered flopper, presumably with the fuel tank mounted in the nose, caught fire upon impact, sending the track crew scrambling to kill the flames.

While this would seem on the surface to be a case of a driver not using their head, we’ll give the benefit of the doubt on this, as “stuff” can and does happen that could cause an incident like this, such as the throttle hanging open or lurching forward upon ignition (which we actually saw occur on Funny Car here in the states just days ago). Fortunately, according to all reports that we were able to track down, both drivers involved were uninjured in the accident, and that’s the best news of all. Do doubt that Darcy Fehr has a heck of a story to tell now, though.