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.
Actor Rick Ducommun, Who Starred in The 'Burbs, Die Hard and Groundhog Day, Dies at 62. Actor and comedian Rick Ducommun, best known for his roles in movies like The âBurbs, Die Hard and Groundhog Day, has died at the age of 62, his family said Thursday. His brother, Peter Ducommun, told the Associated Press that the actor died on June 12 at a hospital in Vancouver, Canada, after suffering complications from diabetes.