Owen Bowling is a pioneering American gasser drag racer.Davis, Larry. Gasser Wars (Cartech, 2003), p.180.
Driving a Chrysler-powered 1929 Ford, Bowling won NHRA's first ever A/SR (A Street) national title, at Great Bend, Kansas, in 1955. He recorded a speed of .Davis, p.180. (His elapsed time was not recorded or has not been preserved.)
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Sources Davis, Larry. Gasser Wars, North Branch, MN: Cartech, 2003, pp. 13 caption and 183–8.