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 ...

In addition to the features he debuted in the Vega, Jenkins also introduced cool cans ... and slick-shift manual transmissions to the sport. Nicknamed "Grumpy," Bill won 13 NHRA championships ...

In the new Pro Stock categories, the Vega found its niche with racers like Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, who stuffed big motors between the little car's fenders and wide tires out back, to come up with ...

Jenkins commented that after he fussed around with the late Vega nose for a while ... This has all been done to permit The Grumpy One more flexibility as far as header design is concerned.

Jenkins Competition was best known in the ... While his '74 Pro Stock Vega, Grumpy's Toy XI, only won one race that year, it has since become one of the more famous cars of Grumpy's Toys.

Jenkins along with Sox & Martin ... at Pomona '72 with his revolutionary SRD Race Cars-built, "Grumpy's Toy IX" Pro Stock Chevrolet Vega. In the meantime, famed match race and funny car pioneer ...

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 out his radically modified tube-frame Vega in ...

But to a new generation of drag racing fans who are just now getting hooked on the world's fastest motorsport, Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins is still a shadowy figure. The "Grump" is OK with that.