Bud Faubel is well-remembered today thanks to his famed series of "Honker" drag cars of the 1960's. Bud started his legendary career with Chrysler innocently enough as the VP of a Dodge dealership in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Having been a fighter pilot in the Air Force, Bud was drawn to speed and began drag racing in the 1950's. In 1961, at Chrysler's request, he brought an experimental 1961/1962 mutant Chrysler 300G to Daytona for the Pure Oil time trials and astonished everyone with the big car's capabilities. It was that week which also gave him "The Honker" moniker, as reportedly, NASCAR driver Marvin Panch jokingly called his unusual 300 "some honker" and the nickname stuck. Bud subsequently named all of his drag cars "The Honker" from 1962 all the way through 1966. Interestingly, every year Bud raced, he set NHRA records, and each one of his cars ended up in the history books for their mechanical and technical innovations. Arguably, Faubel's two most famous cars were his '64 "Turbo Honker" Dodge which featured dual aircraft turbocharged Hemi which created somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,400 horsepower! Almost uncontrollable, the radical Dodge was attaining speeds of 160+ mph in the quarter, which was absolutely unheard of at that time, with tires blazing the whole way. His 1965 Honker A/FX altered wheelbase car remains perhaps his best-remembered ride, as it was seen all over the Northeast and made Bud a household name in the sport of drag racing.