Category: Mike Slade

Hot Rod Drag Week – Darlington 2023

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…

16th Annual Hard Knox Chopper Ball

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…

An OG Stocker

An Original Stocker, The Gober Sosebee '39 Ford Coupe

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…

INSTIGATOR

Instigator, 1969 Camaro custom

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…

2023 Steel In Motion

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…

Old White Work Truck

1948 Chevy 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…

Flyin’ Fury

1933 Ford Hot Rod Dave Abell's 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…

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,…

Jim Simpson’s ’67 Fairlane GT

1967 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…