Hot Rod Drag Week – Rockingham 2023
Here are some photos from the Rockingham stop for the 2023 Hot Rod Drag Week by Mike Slade.
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Hot Rod Drag Week – Darlington 2023
Hot Rod Drag Week 2023 opened up at Darlington Dragway in Darlington, South Carolina. Over a hundred drag cars of all types showed up Sunday, September17th to get registered and do some testing to dial in their rides. Things got under way on Monday morning with participants making their final engine adjustments and start making […]
16th Annual Hard Knox Chopper Ball
A MIKE SLADE BIT The Hard Knox Chopper Ball is a drag race and car show put on by the Hard Knox Car Club of Anderson South Carolina. This years show was held at the historic Greer Dragway in Greer South Carolina. Greer is located off interstate 85 in North Western, South Carolina, about half […]
An OG Stocker
The Wild Indian Photos/Story by Mike Slade I originally pick up the assignment to shoot the feature on this Gober Sosebee 39 Ford coupe race car when I was covering the 1988 Daytona 500 for Circle Track Magazine. After getting to Daytona that week I headed over to the Circle Track Trade Show to catch […]
ELVIS – John Gessner’s ’55 Chevy Truck
Like the name suggests this truck has had a pretty crazy past life. Once was a silver Big Block Chevy straight axle runner, it is now a street rod with a 350 Ram Jet, 4-speed and a new patina look. John has had this truck for over 23 years tooling around town as a parts […]
INSTIGATOR
Michael Chastain’s 1969 Camaro built by Chris Holstrom Concepts. It was close to 36 years ago when a family friend gave Michael the bug. Err, most likely of a GM variety. He has owned 9 collectible cars from a ’67 Chevelle to a 2023 C8 Corvette. A judge by occupation certainly has put the gavel […]
2023 Steel In Motion
At Union Dragway, South Carolina By Mike Slade The Steel In Motion car and truck show has grown in popularity over the last ten or twelve years and draws participants from all up and down the east coast and points west of the Mississippi River. I don’t believe the members of the Geargoyles car club […]
Old White Work Truck
Lew and Linda Rice’s 1948 Chevy Pickup Photos: Mike Slade, Story: Blacktop Media It was a balmy August afternoon when a brand new forester green Chevrolet 3100 pickup found its home on the farm just east of Baltimore, Maryland. Two owners and 63 years later Lew purchased the well used work truck for a thousand […]
Flyin’ Fury
Dave Abell’s 1933 Ford 5-Window Coupe A little over 40 years ago, when he was only 15 years old Dave Abell was gifted a 1950 Ford F-1 that was “Beat-Up and Ugly” he has always been a car guy. He restored and hopped up that truck so his buddies wouldn’t give him the business everytime […]
The Golden Empress
Note: We published this story in Issue #29 just a few weeks before we learned that Chris Ryan was involved in a motorcycle crash. Good news, he is on the mend and we all wish him a quick recovery. Meanwhile, from what I am told, the guys in the shop are keeping it going and […]
Jim Simpson’s ’67 Fairlane GT
Photos: Mike Slade, Story: Tony Colombini The ‘66/’67 Fairlane GT’s have always been a big favorite of mine. I still have a 1:24 scale model I built as a kid sittin’ in my garage. This car started out as a numbers matching 390 GT when Jim Simpson got a hold of it. His buddies […]