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Oct 23 2010, 09:00 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 12 comment(s)
You know, I just love visiting Los Angeles. It's not so much the city itself as I find the place to be too much of a concrete jungle for my taste. No, it's more the fact that LA is one of the world's hot spots for car culture happenings....
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Oct 13 2010, 01:30 PM
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Linhbergh
with 7 comment(s)
Like the guy who first saw an egg drop from a chicken’s butt and say, “I’m going to eat that,” the first guy who thought of dropping a nitro-burning blown Hemi between the rails of a Model T Ford must have been a little crazy. Indeed, you could say being crazy is a prerequisite of involvement in a Fuel Altered. The lineage can be traced back to the earliest hot rods when most everything was a Model T with a bigger than stock motor. Recognized as one of the first was Smokers’...
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Oct 12 2010, 01:30 PM
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Linhbergh
with 3 comment(s)
The very nature of hot rodding and drag racing is to be innovative. It’s American “engine-uity” that precipitated the evolvement of a pedestrian Ford Model T into a 330 mph Top Fuel dragster. Look back far enough and you can swim in the gene pool. Take, for example, the modern Funny Car. You can unravel its DNA all the way back to the production ’55 Chevy that rang the death knoll of the Ford flathead. With one horsepower per cubic inch the new small-block Chevy trailered...
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Oct 11 2010, 03:30 PM
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Linhbergh
with 19 comment(s)
It wasn’t always the case but it is now—old dragsters never die, they just get reborn. Such is the fate of the famed Howard Cams Rattler which has been restored to cackle and maybe even make a burn out or two. Born in 1910 near Selby, Nebraska Howard Andrew Johansen began his racing career on the dirt tracks of the Midwest prior to World War II. Regarded as a mechanical genius, he moved to California in 1941 and worked in the aircraft industry while learning to grind cams on a turret...
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Posted
Oct 29 2009, 04:15 PM
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Mike Garrett
with 29 comment(s)
It was the Winter Nationals at Pomona California in 1974. We were down to the last round of qualifying, with no success of making the field yet because I’d had ignition problems all weekend. But when I warming up the car in the pits, it sounded so sharp. I knew I’d found the problem. But little did I know I was about to take the “E ticket” ride of my life on the next run....
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Posted
Jul 31 2009, 04:57 PM
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Rod Chong
with 20 comment(s)
I grew up in England where, in the early Sixties I had a paper route. Somebody on that route subscribed to Hot Rod Magazine and I'd sit on the kerb under grey skies surrounded by grey cars and read about red and yellow cars under blue, California skies. I so wanted that life. In 1963, two American dragsters owned by Dean Moon and Mickey Thompson, visited England. My dad took me and my friends to see them and I was hooked on "Americarna." It took a long time to figure out how to make...
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Oct 31 2008, 05:00 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 4 comment(s)
Wow, where exactly has the time gone? It seems like it was only a moment ago that we were announcing Porsche month for September and then SoCal month for October and now... November has arrived! So this is my last SoCal-themed story. I'm very busy right now prepping for SEMA, Super Street Super Lap Battle, the Red Bull World Drifting Championship and our upcoming Nissan Month. I’m also working on two other big projects which are taking up a lot of my time and energy. We’ll be taking...
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