In a professional career that has spanned 21 years and counting, Cory McClenathan has become one of the sport’s more prolific drivers, even without that championship that has long eluded him. Corry Mac, as he’s best known, has earned 34 national event wins in Top Fuel making him the sixth-winningest driver in the history of the class, and it all began back in 1991, when the unknown driver and his lesser-known crew chief, Jimmy Prock, nearly won the Top Fuel title in their debut season, all as an independently-funded, family-owned operation. Cory amassed fifteen straight seasons of top-10 finishes and has been a crushing bridesmaid on four occasions. But prior to his career in the nitro ranks and his developmental years in Top Alcohol Dragster, Cory was well regarded in the Volkswagen and sand drag drag racing circles, where he competed with, along with other cars, this VW-powered Karmann Ghia Funny Car and sand rail.

And nearly three decades after their heyday, McClenathan has put his prized racers, that some mention him claiming he would never sell, up for sale on the web.

The Funny Car, originally powered by a 2800cc Autocraft VW engine, went as quick as 7.99 in the quarter-mile as a Funny Car and 7.67 sans the Ghia body, and attracted enough attention to grab the cover spot on the August 1987 issue of Hot VW’s magazine.

The car, being sold as a roller with the engine (with it turbocharger, injection, and exhaust but in need of a refreshen) available separately, has a two-speed Powerglide transmission, a pair of converters, the driveshaft, and a Keith Longerot-built rear end housing installed or included. The body itself, carrying the familiar “Mac Attack” logo seen on the early family-owned Top Fueler, is a truly one-off piece housed around what is, likewise, a one-off race car.

The sand dragster, meanwhile, is pure insanity, weighing just 900 lbs. and packing a 650 horsepower, turbocharged 2800cc Autosport motor (the same powerplant found in the flopper) for power. This monster should come off even more familiar to drag racing fans than the Funny Car, as it sports the ecat theme run on Cory’s Top Fueler in ’91.

Needless to day, these are unique — if not historic — buys for the VW fanatics out there, and at the same time, are an interesting trip back in time for drag racing fans that have spent two-plus decades watching McClenathan with a look at his drag racing past.