NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

In this week’s edition of Night at the Museum, NHRA reporter Lewis Bloom highlights one of the newest additions to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum: Don “the Snake” Prudhomme’s Army Plymouth Arrow.

The car won the last of "the Snake’s” four consecutive championships from 1975-1978. This car might be most remembered for actually NOT winning a round of racing. That would be the iconic 1978 U.S. Nationals final round when “the Snake” lined up against “the Mongoose,” Tom McEwen, for the Wally at the Big Go. McEwen would defeat his friend and rival Prudhomme just weeks after the passing of McEwen’s son, Jamie, from cancer. The car was recently purchased by collector Don Trasin, who not only owns the Arrow but also the 1978 Corvette of McEwen. Both cars no reside side by side in the NHRA Museum and, according to “Snake,” the Arrow is “the real deal.”