Panorama City Special (dragster)

The Panorama City Special is a pioneering streamliner dragster.

Believed to be the first "slingshot" dragster, the Panorama City Special (designed by hot rodder Mickey Thompson) had a full body, including skirted rear wheels, and a cockpit windshield wrapping around and over the driver. The steel front wheels were covered by lakester-style wheel discs (Moon discs). The car debuted in 1955, at the first NHRA U.S. Nationals at Great Bend, Kansas. The wheelbase was only 97 in.

In its initial outing, it proved much slower than the competition, hitting only 142 mph, when others were reaching almost 150 mph. Later in 1955, however, it became the first single-engined fueller to exceed 150 mph, recording a speed of 151.26 mph.