And by the mid-'70s, Pro Stock, too, had become all about nonstock tube-chassis cars. Rules creep. Don't get us started on the NASCAR version. We selected this shot of Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins' '71 ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega ...

Most cultural heroes, regardless of their fields of endeavor, eventually become associated with some sort of catchy but affectionate nickname. When tales are told in entertainment circles of Greta ...

"It (the car) was presented as the Bill, "Grumpy" Jenkins, "Grumpy's Toy VIII." but the seller didn't have any documentation at that point to prove it. He was also hard to get hold of, and a ...

Those vehicles, and especially Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins’ plain-white Camaro set a lofty standard by which Chevy race cars continue to be measured.

Bill Jenkins ... of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, into which Jenkins was inducted in 1996. To fans and fellow racers he was Grumpy Jenkins, and he relished the nickname, particularly ...

There hasn't been much of anything "stock" in the National Hot Rod Association's Pro Stock drag-racing neighborhood since Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins rolled ... Today, the cars are simply commodities.

But to a new generation of drag racing fans who are just now getting hooked on the world's fastest motorsport, Bill "Grumpy ... Jenkins was unsurpassed as an engine builder and race car engineer ...