Legendary Builder/Fabricator John Buttera passes away
John Buttera, who left his stamp on the drag racing world in the 1970s by building a series of winning Funny Cars and dragsters, created some of hot rodding's most beautiful street rods of the 1980s and 1990s, and built the first billet wheels, died March 2, 2008 after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.
Buttera began his career in his native Kenosha, Wis., when he teamed with Dennis Rollain to form R&B Chassis. They fielded a very light unblown fuel dragster, but a chance meeting with Mickey Thompson in the staging lanes at the U.S. Nationals in the late 1960s led him to move to Southern California, changing his life forever.
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