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Drag Racer Mendy Fry Lives Life a Quarter Mile at a Time

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Drag racing documentary is a slice of a very exciting life.

Mendy Fry’s Life a Quarter Mile at a Time CO2tv Drag racer Mendy Fry was blessed with beauty, poise, and no natural fear of nitromethane. Sure, a lot of people have the first two, that’s what beauty pageants are for, but strap any of them into a multi-thousand horsepower nitro Top Fueler, and suddenly you separate the men from the boys. And the girls.

Mendy Fry is a cool, cool kitty, “Nitro Kitty” as it said on her car, and this new documentary, Time Trials: A Drag Strip Requiem, available on Amazon for just $4. 99, details exactly how cool. She was born into a racing family.

Her dad Ron Fry was an engine and chassis builder in Northern California. The elder Fry really wanted a boy. “He wanted a son and he got me,” Fry says.

So he molded her into a racer. She started in quarter midgets at age four. By the time she was in high school she was driving an eight-second, lightweight, full-fendered ’27 T roadster powered by an injected Rat motor at NorCal drag strips - and winning.

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