It all started about four or five years ago I guess. I had a hankering for an old station wagon, but I didn’t have the funds to secure one. So, I did what most around me considered to be irrational on the grandest of scales – I sold my late model truck and bought a [...]
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Daily Driver Update: Hard Knocks
Posted on February 27th, 2013 by Ryan
Filed under: Feature Articles
Filed under: Feature Articles
Knock Out
How hard do you have to hit a man with the butt of your .38 to make him crumble to the floor in silence like they do in the movies? As it turns out, pretty damned hard… and multiple times to boot. I must have hit that man seven or eight times before he finally [...]
My Visit To The Quonset Hut Of Speed
I’d love to own a mirror straight and jet black ’65 Riviera, but I’ve always been afraid that such a car would own me instead. So, I’ve gone about my Verde Green example very casually. From my first conversation with Jamie at Atlas Speed & Custom, I made it clear that I wasn’t interested in [...]
Texas On The Quarter Mile – Part 2
On Friday, we brought you a number of images from Bob Doty’s photography collection. The response was positive enough that I felt a “sequel” was in order. Something about early Texas drag racing photography just speaks to me. It’s as if Texas was as laid back then as it is now and that’s a glorious [...]
Texans On The Quarter Mile
Bob Doty was a young man in the late 1950′s and early 1960′s. He had a passion for both drag racing and photography. Recently, he sent me an email and asked if I would be interested in peaking his collection of photographs taken as he toured the state of Texas and visited just about every [...]
Puyallup Valley Raceway 1961
In the early 1960′s, Bill Dake and his buddy Jon would pester their parents relentlessly almost every week. If they made enough noise, they figured, their folks would almost certainly drop them off at the drags for a day of speed and power that weekend. Lucky for us, Bill liked to take along his little [...]
Seven Degrees
When people ask me who my favorite historical hot rod figure is I always blurt out the same name – Mal Hooper. And it’s funny, because I don’t really know a lot about who Mal was or what he did. There just hasn’t been much reported on him. In fact, I’ve only really been able [...]
For Miles In Circles…
Josh Shaw sent me an email the other day with the title of, “Check this shit out!” And when he does something like that, I pay attention and you fellas reap the rewards… See, Josh has been recently corresponding with Rich Harmon – a 71 year old man that has been mesmerized by Sprint and [...]
The So-Cal Streamliner… Reborn…
It actually started with a belly tank. More specifically, it started with the So-Cal belly tank that was last ran by Xydias and Batchelor in 1948. Itching for more speed, Xydias and Batchelor decided it was time to get seriously innovative. It was time to build an honest to goodness streamliner – the purest form [...]
