[2] The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) ranked Chrisman 23rd on their Top 50 drivers in 2001.
[2] He switched to a Chrysler car, continuing to race at Southern California such as Lions, Pomona, San Fernando, Santa Ana, and Saugus.
Masters & Richter flew Chrisman to the Bay area to race in their Top Fuel dragster.
He raced the Howard Cam Twin Bears gas dragster, which featured two side-mounted engines.
[3] Chrisman won the 1961 World Championship after winning in national, regional, and divisional meets throughout the United States.
[3] The team debuted a new Pontiac Hemi engine a few weeks before the U.S. Nationals at Indy, and won the Top Eliminator crown.
In 1966, he ran one of the factory backed Mercury Comets with a flip-up fiberglass body, following a trend started by Don Nicholson and Eddie Schartman.
[2] The car ran the quarter mile in 8.72 seconds at 184 mph (296 km/h), beating Jungle Jim Liberman in the finals.
[3] On July 10, 1966 he set a class record at 188 miles per hour (303 km/h), only to have the engine blow up two weeks later at the Super Stock Magazine Nationals.
It has supplied components to Kenny Bernstein, Frank Bradley, Darrell Gwynn, Eddie Hill, and Joe Pisano.