The vast arena of Nostalgia Funny Car racing is soon to gain another formidable team, headed up by a pair of veteran sportsman racers. Longtime NHRA Division 3 Top Alcohol Dragster standout and former division champion Jeff Wilson and former Division 3 Top Alcohol Funny Car driver Marc White are in the final stages of preparing their new nitro-burning effort that they hope to debut at next months World Series of Drag Racing in Cordova.

The pair purchased a Murf McKinney chassis from Don Schumacher Racing and have spent much of the last year putting the car together at Wilson’s shop in Winfield. Mo. Lurking beneath the slick ’77 Trans Am body is a 413 cubic inch TFX powerplant with Alan Johnson cylinder heads and an SSI supercharger. Created by RC Fabrications in Arizona, the body returned from paint two weeks ago featuring a colorful scheme with the “Flashback” lettering.

Said White, “the travel and everything involved in alcohol racing got us looking at the Nostalgia Funny Car deal to be able to race closer to home.”

White, a Glendale Heights, Ill. native, who is perhaps most remembered for his years driving George and Jane Etterman’s very competitive flopper, served as crew chief for Wilson on his Top Alcohol Dragster in 2004 and will again take on the tuning role as Wilson pilots the new nitro-burning flopper at midwest nostalgia events and match races.