Veteran drag racer Joe Boggs passed away peacefully at the age of 78 on Friday, December 30, 2016 after a long illness. Boggs campaigned a long line of top fuel dragsters and nitro funny cars from 1967 until the early 1980’s. Along with his original partner, Jim Hundley, the Hundley & Boggs team fielded one of the most competitive AA/FD dragsters east of the Mississippi in the late 1960’s, winning the American Hot Rod Association Top Fuel World Championship in September 1967 and an International Hot Rod Association Grand American in September 1969.

Following his retirement from the sport, Boggs established Joe Boggs & Associates, an early innovator in DOT Interstate Trucking Regulations education and Industrial/Institutional drug testing.

Boggs was a fixture at NHRA Hot Rod Reunions after the debut of the original Hundley & Boggs tribute ‘cacklecar’ in 2011. Joe could always be found next the H&B car, holding court underneath a pop-up tent exercising his considerable storytelling skills. Boggs and son, Ritchie, commissioned J. Ed Horton to build a replica of the 1969 full-bodied Hundley & Boggs dragster which they rolled out at the 2016 Holley Hot Rod Reunion.

Joe Boggs is survived by his wife of 57 years, Linda, his son, Ritchie, daughter-in-law, Nikki, granddaughter, MacKayla Mena and grandson, Parker Boggs. A celebration of Joe’s life will take place in June at the Holley Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, KY.