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Terry Bobb’s 1965 Olds 442
South Mountain Raceway – When you hang around nostalgia events, you often run across people fiercely loyal to their preferred brand of automobile. A lot of early drag racing attendance centered around the Ford vs. Chevy vs. Mopar dynamic. Then… Continue reading
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Al Pearce’s ’63 Chevy II
Cumberland, Md. – Every now and then, you run across a car that just reaches out and grabs you for one reason or another. It can be rusty patina, a monstrous blower sticking out of the hood, or maybe just… Continue reading
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This One’s Personal; One Marked Off the Bucket List
Beaver Springs Dragway – Everyone has some things they’d like to accomplish while they still can, their “bucket list.” One of my things was to take a car down a drag strip. Many a time in the old days, I’d… Continue reading
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Eric Gilbert – That First Pass Down the Track
Beaver Springs Dragway – We’ve seen it before. The familiar black Willys with Mike Etchberger behind the wheel. The big burnouts. The famous launch that is so hard ALL the wheels occasionally leave the ground. Once again, the fans were… Continue reading
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Dawn Perdue and the Wicked Sinsation Jet Dragster
NOTE: Some of the accompanying pictures are similar. Usually, I don’t do this, but I didn’t want to leave out even a smidgen of action with this particular car. The sounds and what you feel watching this car go down… Continue reading
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BOPC (Buick Oldsmobile Pontiac Cadillac) Race Day at Beaver Springs Dragway
Beaver Springs Dragway – Some interesting tidbits of history to consider! Buick was started by David Buick in 1899. With the sad ending of Oldsmobile in 2004 (for the record, I think that was a huge mistake and GM would… Continue reading
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The English Brothers’ Studebaker
Beaver Springs Dragway – Every now and then, you see a car, and you just have to know. You just have to. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the Studebaker of Bob English. The English Brothers are no… Continue reading
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Frosty’s 8th Annual Hot Rod Show
Cumberland, MD – Rain showers showed up in the early hours of the morning making for some wet grass, and a little mud. Even though the forecast called for no more rain, the sky showed it knew more than the… Continue reading
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Rocky Pirrone: A Conversation at the Track!
Beaver Springs Dragway – I caught up with Rocky Pirrone at the Nostalgia Nationals and stopped by his pit to have a little chat about the Super Camaro funny car. As Rocky would tell me, the car first debuted in… Continue reading
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The Family that Races Together…
Beaver Springs Dragway – When you travel to different tracks and observe different competitors and different car clubs, you find a slice of America that’s not like anything you’ll find anywhere else. There’s a fellowship and camaraderie among racers that… Continue reading
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