Tag: Drag Racing

Benchracing with Musclecars Part 1

Musclecars Part 1

Benchracing With Jersey and T-Bone In this Part One episode we explore the high-performance world of Musclecars! We try to define what a Musclecar is, the origins of Musclecars, and Jersey shares his favorite of all! We dig into early…

SEMA Ignited 2022

I am looking forward to the drive. Most people hate it. Not me. After the first two hours and we are out of the traffic, the desert is a nice place to be. My mind starts to wander and I…

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years

I can hear the muffled sounds of Mannix on the old boob tube downstairs in the den. Dad would occasionally yell up the stairs: “Be quiet up there and go to sleep!” My little brother and I have been “in…

It’s All About Having Fun

Rodney Flournoy and the So Cal Blower Boyz Here’s a Fuel Fed Feature interview of Top Fueler and Funny Car driver Rodney Flournoy and the So Cal Blower Boyz with Amber Elizabeth at the Lions Automobilia Foundation and Museum in…

NHRA Breakfast at the 2022 SEMA Show

NHRA Breakfast SEMA 2022

A full hour of fun stories from some of drag racing’s most notable characters. Enjoy the 2022 SEMA Show NHRA Breakfast panel discussion moderated by Brian Lohnes and featuring Lee Beard, Don “Snake” Prudhomme, “King” Richard Tharp, and Frank Hawley…

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…

Lions Gasser Gathering

The 2022 Lions Gasser Gathering at the Lions Automobilia Foundation, Lions Dragstrip Museum. What a day with new and vintage racers in the parking lot and in the museum. The Burkholder Brothers lit up their Altered Fiat for the crowd.…

Amber Won’t Quit!

You can tell at first sight this little green 1976 Datsun 620 truck lived a good life. For 45 years this tin can showed the years unashamedly. Little would you know this beat up Datsun truck means a whole lot…

GIRL’s of Irwindale

GORGEOUS IRWINDALE RACING LADIES The Gorgeous Irwindale Racing Ladies (G.I.R.L.) is an organization that was founded by CEO Kelly Anderson on June 9th, 2020 to encourage women and bring them together in a predominantly male sport. The organization is led…

Chrome! Exhibit in Long Beach

Historical Society of Long Beach Presents: CHROME! Cruisin’ Clubs and Drag Strips The Historical Society of Long Beach came by our Sunday Morning get-together one week. Director Julie Bartolotto and Steffie Hands stopped by to tell us (Mercifuls Car Club)…

Drag Racing History Continues!

DRAG RACING HISTORY MADE TWICE DURING JULY 2016 Two days in July 2016 will go down as important mile stones in the history of European drag racing and the restoration of Europe’s first dragster, Sydney Allard’s 1961 Allard Chrysler owned by…