NHRA Pro Stock racer Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, one of drag racing's most influential stars, has died. He was 81. Jenkins died on March 29. NHRA president Tom Compton says Jenkins played an integral ...

Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, who helped build the NHRA Pro Stock class with his innovations of the internal combustion engine, died Thursday. He was 81 ...

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 ...

NHRA Pro Stock racer Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, one of drag racing's most influential stars, has died. He was 81.

NHRA Pro Stock racer Bill “Grumpy’’ Jenkins, one of drag racing’s most influential stars, has died. He was 81.

Race fans might not be sure who Grumpy Jenkins is, but you can still count on him being a force on the drag racing scene.

Drag-racing legend Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins has died at the age of 81. Jenkins earned fame by helping revolutionize the Pro Stock class through innovations in engines, suspensions and other parts.

Here is a great profile article on the late-great Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins and the 1967 big-block engines that made his Chevy drag cars so fast.