This Vintage Eddie Hill 1/24th Die Cast Metal Top Fuel Dragster Signed by Eddie Hill and has the best time and top speed this dragster ran. Eddie Hill is a legend in racing circles. He raced cars, fuel dragsters, boats, and motorcycles winning in all categories and making an impact on the sport that people will always remember. Eddies was Born March 6, 1936 (age 82) and Retired 1999. He was an active racer in the following years. 1963–1966, 1985–1999 amassing 12 national titles, 100 wins in motorcycle racing, won the National Drag Boat Association (NDBA) World Fuel & Gas championship. A little history:
In 2001 he was ranked 14th on NHRA's Top 50 drivers
He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (2002)
Drag Racing Hall of Fame (1978)
Texas Motor Sports Hall of Fame (2007)
Hill had the first run in the four second range (4.990 seconds), which earned him the nickname "Four Father of Drag Racing." His other nicknames include "The Thrill","Holeshot Hill", and "Fast Eddie". In 1960, he set the NHRA record for the largest improvement in the elapsed time (e.t.) when he drove the quarter mile in 8.84 seconds to break the previous 9.40-second record.
Hill raced at open competitions and Top Fuel events from 1955 until he retired in 1966. After opening a motorcycle shop, he returned several years later to race motorcycles. He started racing drag boats after attending a drag boat event in 1974 and he won championships in all of the major boat drag racing sanctioning bodies. Hill set the lowest wet elapsed time (e.t.) record with a 5.16-second run, which was lower than the land drag racing record of 5.39 seconds. He quit water drag racing after he suffered broken bones at a crash in Arizona and returned to land drag racing in 1985. Initially underfunded and unsuccessful, Hill set the all-time speed record at a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) event in 1987, becoming the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously. In 1993, Hill became the NHRA's oldest Top Fuel champion. When Hill retired in 1999, he had won 12 national season point championships on land or water, and had won more than 100 trophies in motorcycles and 86 drag events between his land and water careers. Innovations credited to Eddie Hill:
In 1960, he became the first driver to heat his rear tires with a burnout and he was the first driver to use smaller front tires on a dragster in 1958. Hill introduced the aerodynamic front wing to dragsters and charcoal masks for driver safety. This is a real collector’s item. Own a piece of history.

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