David vs Goliath – Two Bench-Racers who challenged Harley Davidson on the drag-strip and Won

T.C. and John of Sunset Motors took on the corporate giant Harley Davidson on the drag-strip and won.

The Hogslayer is a classic tale of the small local underdog triumphing over  the corporate factory-backed Harley drag bikes.

The Christenson/Gregory race-team from Sunset Motors, Wisconsin, designed, built, and raced the Norton nitro-burning bike, that in the 1970s thrust them to four World Championships throughout the United States and Europe.

The Hogslayer became the second motorcycle to ever crack the seven-second bar in the quarter-mile with a time of 7.93 seconds and topping the 180 mph barrier.

The successful drag racing team motivated the Harley Davidson research and development unit to post a sign outside their workshop, “Get The Hogslayer.” Not only helping the bike rightly earn its nickname, but also symbolized that the records barely scrape the surface of the Hogslayer’s impact on the current motorcycle drag racing scene.

Fortunately, in the award-winning documentary “Hogslayer The Unapproachable Legend,” director/writer James Cutting has canonized the Hogslayer’s cultural significance for future generations.

The victories are the achievement of John Gregory the engineering genius, T.C. Christenson the courageous pilot, and the people of Kenosha, Wisconsin who rallied around their nitro burning two engine adopted son.

“We went fast for the thrill of it all.”
T.C. Christenson  four time world Champion.

The original Hogslayer is presently on permanent exhibit at the National Motorcycle Museum in the United Kingdom.

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