The Green Light: WebMD Highlights Paul Lee’s Journey Back To Driving A Funny Car After A Heart Attack.
When our friend, and owner of McLeod and FTI, Paul Lee had his heart attack back in 2016 the NHRA Drag Racing community was shocked. Paul was one of these in-shape guys that you never expected to...
FOUND: The “Moonburst” AA Fuel Dragster Has Been Sitting In A Field In This Trailer For 43 Years!
Barn finds are rad, but what about trailer finds? Well it seems like we’ve heard of more than a few really old and cool race cars being found inside trailers sitting outside in the weather of...
Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage
Happiness this year is found in the garage, ain’t it? Yeah…this is where you learn if you are a car builder or just would rather watch one on television. I’m finding that I’m...
How Much Power Can You Make With A Crate 514 Big Block Ford? A LOT!
GM always owned the factory crate engine world. No matter what make or model, you could go to any car show or race and find dozens of GM Crate engines in everything under the sun. But Ford and Mopar...
Flying Free: The First Icelandic Formula Offroad Event Of 2020!
When the pandemic started to become a real issue for us here in America, the joke was that cabin fever was about to get a reality check. What was a few weeks of staying at home when you’d...
Rough Start: 1980 Ford Fairmont Futura – Light And Rowdy Street Beater
The Ford Fairmont Futura (and it’s twin, the Mercury Zephyr Z-7), are love-it or hate-it cars. From the doors forward, it’s Fairmont. But from the doors back, you are looking at what was...
High Flying Short Course And Pre Runner Fun At TCB Ranch In SoCal
When we did the Junkyard Challenge off-road truck build show last year it was an absolute riot hanging out at TCB Ranch near Murrieta California. I called the ranch home for more than a week, and had...
Raising Hell In The Fields: Midwest Farm Field Road Cash Days!
Can you count how many drag tracks are dead and done for 2020? You would think that the news would be calming down on that front, but no. Events getting cancelled or “postponed”, tracks...
Independence Chevelle: Getting The Front Clip Back Into Useable Shape
When Derek drove this 1970 Chevelle from Indiana home, he had a solid complaint the whole time: the front end didn’t care anything about what he was asking it to do. Now, it’s not...
Four In A Row Make It Go – Watch This Turbocharged Four Banger Dragster Run 6.40s at 200+!
(By Jason Mazzotta) – One aspect of drag racing that will always be a huge part of the sport is the ability to create and innovate newer and crazier cars and combinations, and Don Nase...
Wacky Drag Racing History: The Day An Airplane Destroyed The Tree At An NHRA National Event!
(Photos by Bob Boudreau and John Chisholm) – There are bad days at the office and then there are BAD days at the office and at the 1975 NHRA Le GrandNational at Sanair Dragway outside of...
The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!
Do you remember the kite-eating tree in the Peanuts comic strip? No matter what Charlie Brown did to avoid fate, his kite wound up getting taken out by the one single, solitary tree that just had it...
The Strong Get Stronger! Mark Williams Releases New Big Bore Ball Bearing Case For 9″ Ford
With ever increasing horsepower and chassis designs that allow said horsepower to reach the track in more and more efficient forms driveline parts need to keep pace and the crew at Mark Williams...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Buzzing Small Block Camaro Scream To A Win!
(By Jason Mazzotta) – There is nothing quite like a small block stick car buzzing through the gears at high rpm’s, and this immaculate inside and out ’69 Camaro runs through the gears in...
