Most years, the idea of picking a single favorite race car at the United States Nationals would be nothing short of ridiculous, considering the numbers of entries and spectators involved. Drag racing’s annual “Indy” celebration is many things to many different people, particularly to the 35,000 or so who stick around for the last of the annual Labor Day eliminations. And the chances of everybody, young and old and male and female, ever getting together to elect a single, unanimous, unofficial Crowd Favorite from the more than 1000 mechanical candidates on hand seem predictably slim, at best. Yet that’s exactly what happened early in the evening of Labor Day Monday, 1978.