Category Archive: Barnstormin'
Barnstormin’: The Bonneville Edition
By now you’re probably sick of seeing the photos of cars running on the salt or reading our stories about cars, motorcycles, and contraptions I can scarcely identify doing the same. Our goal...
The Doomsday Scenario…What Happens Next?
Boy, that sure sounds ominous, huh? We got a shockingly emotional response from the blog item we ran earlier in the week that announced the news that Ford was leaving NHRA drag racing as a...
Barnstormin’: The Comfort In Knowing That Risk Takers Abound
In recent east coast BS HQ news, my two sons moved into the same room together. That didn’t happen because we made them, it happened because they wanted to. My wife and I thought that was kind...
Barnstormin’: It Ain’t The Size Of The Strip…
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been to two really fantastic drag races. We’re talking barn burning affairs that have had huge crowds, great racing, lots of satisfied customers, and...
Barnstormin’: Mangled Memories
Every hot rodder seems to do it. I know I do and now I know Art Arfons did as well. We all hang on to blown up, busted, or otherwise destroyed parts and pieces of cars that we used to ow or race, or...
Barnstormin’: There’s No I In TEAM (Or Brilliance Largely Works Alone)
Yesterday’s news and subsequent story about the passing of the great Walt Arfons garnered me more personal emails regarding the relationship between Walt and Art Arfons than the great majority...
Barnstormin’: Missing The Great “All Or Nothing Races” and Celebrating The Few That Remain
Last Sunday I was one of the millions of Americans who planted their asses on the couch upon waking up Sunday morning and didn’t leave until nearly midnight, watching different forms of racing...
Barnstormin’: The Combustion Anti-Discrimination League
So I have entered a stretch where I’ll be announcing events virtually every weekend from now all the way into July in various locations across the country. In truth, this started a couple weeks...
Barnstormin’: Old Airports Are A Hot Rodders Best Friend And A Largely Untapped Resource
I have recently caught an affliction that lots of gearheads seem to suffer from. I have become obsessed with old airports and airfields now being used by hot rodders as racing facilities. It started...
Barnstormin’: Confessions Of An Automotive Schizophrenic
So yesterday I drove a 2013 Ford Taurus SHO and my Buford T Justice Caprice, loving them both. I have a severe problem called automotive schizophrenia and there is no known cure. That’s a fact...
Barnstormin’: Dreaming Big, Scheming Bigger, and Why I Am Hell Bent On Trying To Race A ChumpTruck In 2014
So this is going to come as a shock to no one, but I am completely and utterly consumed with the idea of racing a truck in the 2014 ChumpTruck series. I am not looking for more than one race and my...
Barnstormin’: These Guys OWN Low-Buck
Dave Nutting was full of questions on the way to the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog last weekend and I was full of hypothetical answers. As many of you loyal readers out there know, I love trucks....
Barnstormin’: Creativity For The Sheeple And The Lost Art Of Making Something From Scratch
Yesterday, Chad went into full berserker mode over the Paul Harvey voiced Ram “farmer” commercial during the Super Bowl. I think I shared the same reaction as many other people by being...
Barnstormin’: Hookers In The Hallway, Lacquer Thinner In The Nitro, A Clearing Of The Notebook From A Wild Trip On Two Coasts
It has become somewhat of a yearly ritual for Chad and I to get together down in West Palm Beach, Florida for the live broadcast of the PRO Winter Warm Up. Then, we both head back to his place...