Some cars such as Green Monster and Vampire raced as dragsters (as well as also achieving or attempting land speed records). In 2006, while filming an episode for the series Top Gear, presenter and driver Richard Hammond was critically injured in a crash with the jet dragster, Vampire, that he was piloting. More modern jet dragsters such as Robert Albertson's Blazing Angel are capable of reaching over 300mph in a quarter of a mile.
FORT DOBBS â 1958. This Warner Brothers duster stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo and Brian Keith. Twenty minutes in and I thought I was watching a re-hash of the John Wayne classic, HONDO. Same idea, but it takes a different tact with Walker as a man running from the law for a killing.
1 Bob Denver, as Maynard G. Krebs, is Dobie's eccentric, lazy and somewat goofy best friend, a would-be beatnik who shuns romance, authority figures, and work. 2  Like Dobie, Maynard briefly joins the Army in season two between his high-school graduation and enrollment in college.he series revolved around teenager Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman), who aspired to have popularity, money, and the attention of beautiful and unattainable girls, whose entrance into Dobie's life was often accompanied by the song  Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing  softly playing in the background.