Roland Leong has passed away

Roland Leong, known far and wide for his "Hawaiian" race cars was a successful gas dragster driver in Hawaii, came to California in the early 1960s and got work at the famed Dragmasters chassis building emporium near San Diego. 

Leong’s Dragmaster-built rail was driven to the Top Gas victory at the 1964 Winternationals by future motorsports legend Danny Ongais, and the 1965 Winternationals and U.S. Nationals with driver Don Prudhomme, duplicating those Winternationals and U.S. Nationals victories in 1966 with new driver Mike Snively – but switched to Funny Cars in 1969 and was immediately successful there as well, winning the Winternationals back to back in 1970 and ’71 with drivers Larry Reyes and Butch Maas.

https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/legendary-nhra-car-owner-roland-leong-hawaiian-passes-away

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