60th Winternationals flashback: Beadle, Bernstein raise the roof for '81 FC final
It was one of the craziest moments in Winternationals history when at the 1981 event the roof of Raymond Beadle’s famed Blue Max Funny Car blew off at the finish line on a winning semifinal run.
In a miraculous thrash known as "the Texas Chainsaw Massacre," fellow Texan Kenny Bernstein allowed Beadle to saw the roof off of his Budweiser King entry and graft it to the Max for the final round. Beadle lost the final to Billy Meyer but not for lack of effort