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A Convoluted Connect-the-Dots Story: Resolving the Mystery (or Clarifying the Alleged Connection) of Two Orange County Coupes While doing...
Bob Rounthwaite, His Quintessential ‘34 Fuel Coupe, and the Spirit of Hot Rodding [ATTACH] Front and center on the classic October 1951 cover...
Dick Guyette: The Music Man of Encino and His Medley of Clowns The general approach taken by most owners/drivers of dragsters is to begin racing...
Don Menard: Paradise Mesa Track Manager [ATTACH] Don Menard, an aircraft engineer from Chula Vista, California, built this ’34 Ford coupe with...
Three Mid-1950s Quirky Crosley Altereds from San Diego County Don Garlits is credited with revolutionizing top fuel dragsters when he won the...
Kenny Ellis: Just Beyond the Land of Oz with the Tin Man Drag racing’s first decade was a period of experimentation as racers tried to discover...
Owen Bowling: Old School Master Cam Grinder [ATTACH] Owen Bowling finished building his blown Plymouth A/Open Gas dragster in time to compete at...
[ATTACH] I just stumbled on a photo of a fiberglass bodied dragster that was exhibited in the Victress booth at the 1953 Motorama show. The owner...
Belmont “Beach Ball” SanChez: A Guy Who “Lives, Eats, and Sleeps Hot Rods” —and Had the Loot to Build Them [ATTACH] In 1953, Belmont Joseph...
Dennis Stiles, His Sparkling Roadster, and the Cops Who Helped Start the Pomona Drag Strip [ATTACH] I’m still delving into the massive...
Tom Indovina, the Throttle Merchants, and the Construction of San Fernando Raceway [ATTACH] The “truth is in the details” has been my mantra in...
[ATTACH] The city of Santa Rosa sponsored the drag races on the runway of the Cotati Naval Outer Landing Field. The first race was held on...
[ATTACH] Joe and Jerry Mahoney built this fiberglass-bodied gas dragster that took class wins at various California drag strips in the latter...
Bill Quirk and Bob Powell: Whiz Kids with Fiberglass [ATTACH] I stumbled on this delightful photo of a young North Hollywood teenager at the...
Ed Durand and Bud Rice and Their “Screaming Banshee” [ATTACH] I found the photo of this fiberglass modified sports drag racing car in the online...
[ATTACH] This ad appeared in the "Parts Parade" page in the March 30, 1956 issue of Drag News. In the 1950s, men were rarely called "boys," but...
Stan “The Man” Lomelino: “World’s Fastest Flathead” and Thorn in the Side of John Bradley When Stan Lomelino set the Drag News 1320 national...
R. D. Dodson: The Granddaddy of Drag Racing in Tarrant County Dodson took up drag racing when he was 57 years old. He was kind of late in the...
George Bowles and His Bowlesmobile: A Quintessential 1950s Dragster If There Ever Was One [ATTACH] Sometime in the mid-1950s, Life magazine...
Emmett Cull and Ronnie Sterbenk and the Essence of Hot Rodding [ATTACH] I’ve got a couple of routes that I take to choose who to write about...
Ted Cooper: This Piper Calls the Tune [ATTACH] In looking at an old 1950s-60s drag racing movie, I stumbled across a segment showing this...
Harry Meets Ginger—and Her Tangle With NHRA for Equal Rights for Women Racers “Harry Meets Ginger” sounds like a variation of a movie title...
Jim “Jazzy” Nelson: A Solitary Genius In drag racing circles, Jim Nelson had the reputation of being reserved, withdrawn, and detached. “What...
Jnaki, Thanks for catching that. I was working too quickly and relying on a caption on an Internet photo rather than looking closely at the...
Jnaki, Love your entry on the two Joes. I've dug deep to try to find some photos of them, but they are elusive. Here are the best ones that I...
Throttle Queens: Girl Power Hot Rod Club [ATTACH] In March 1956, Pat Field, a North Hollywood housewife and mother of three, came up with, what...
I can't find any genealogical information about Frank Stillwell, but he was living in Anaheim at least as early as 1947. He was born in about...
Creighton Hunter: A Hot Rodder at Heart By his own count, Creighton Hunter built close to fifty hot rods. “I got my first car in 1936,” he said....
Helen and Bart Root: A Racing Married Couple Who Flirted With the Big Time One Year In my dozen or so years working as head tech man at the...
Jnaki, Like the way you put it: "What a surprise that the brother of one of the most famous early drag racers did not want to be completely like...
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