Warning Runaway ramp-truck column ahead
Another column, another collection of awesome ramp-truck shots sent by the Insider Nation. Anymore, I'm finding it cooler to ogle the cars on the backs of the trucks than I am the trucks [...]
Ramp trucks? Yeah, we've got ramp trucks
You guys had a lot of spare time on your hands this weekend, right? I don't know how else to explain the avalanche of ramp-truck photos that appeared in my Inbox the last several days. Seems that a [...]
Keep on truckin'
And the wheels on the ramp truck thread go 'round and 'round. So here we are, columns later still talking about ramp trucks as this thing grows bigger and bigger tentacles, reminding many of the way [...]
Ramp Truck Tuesday
It's Ramp Truck Tuesday at the Insider … OK, well, I guess it doesn't need its own day of the week anymore because stuff just keeps pouring in. I've received a ton [...]
Band of brothers
How many can you name? (View bigger) They belong to a fraternity founded in the 1960s, back when they were all younger men with limitless dreams in their heads and scores of [...]
Of Snakes, Mongooses, and horses
Today's column is a bit of a mash up of comments from recent columns, including the ongoing ramp-truck discussions, Tommy Ivo's glass-sided trailers, "the Snake" and "the Mongoose," [...]
More ramp-truck ramblings
Not unexpectedly, everyone flipped over "T.V. Tommy" Ivo's trailer gallery here Tuesday, including Jim Randel, who saw Ivo's Corvette-topped truck in the early 1970s. "This was probably [...]
Tommy's towing toys
So, last week I mentioned that Tommy Ivo was putting together a little something for your reading enjoyment about his glass-sided haulers. I had dropped him a line to ask where he had gotten the idea, [...]
Is there anything you guys don't know?
If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times in the 350-plus columns I've filed here: You guys rock. Sure, a lot of times, I'm the guy coming up with the topics based on whatever tickles my [...]
Just ramp truckin' along ...
Predictably, the ramp-truck thread is expanding and appears about to run out of control like a trailer that jumped its hitch. And I'm smiling all the while. Keith Crouch of Toledo, Ohio, [...]
Going all commercial on you
From early indications, this ramp-truck thread may just turn out to be another long-winded wedge-type deal as tips and pics continue to flow in and out of Insider International's global information [...]
Ramping up the excitement level
News of Don Prudhomme's find of former partner Tom McEwen's Hot Wheels ramp truck, first reported here last week, has really ramped up the excitement, if you will, at the prospect [...]
Two of a kind: 'Snake's' new find
For a guy who created and lived a lot of it, Don Prudhomme sure digs drag racing history, especially the equipment that helped make him a megastar in the sport. He began by tracking down [...]
Two of a kind: 'Snake's' new find
For a guy who created and lived a lot of it, Don Prudhomme sure digs drag racing history, especially the equipment that helped make him a megastar in the sport. He began by tracking down [...]
Power to the people
It's not as if I didn't know this would happen, but I was besieged with e-mails following Friday's Patriotic Power column, in which I foolishly made what I knew was only a [...]
Frequent flyers
I have to "hand" it to you guys. Wednesday's column about promotional handbills and flyers prompted a mini flood of submissions of some of your favorites, which no doubt will revive a lot of [...]
A day late and a column short
Click for full size Don’t cry for me, Argentina, but it has been a super-busy week at National DRAGSTER, and I apologize for missing our usual Tuesday appointment and for a [...]
Feedback Friday
It's Friday, the end of the working week for a lot of you, but with Bristol thundering along this weekend, plus the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion and more going on around the country, it's [...]
Fish stories and other stuff
Response to my "fish tale" about the famed AMT Piranha was, like the fish itself, quick and strong and with a little bite. Like me, many of you had heard of the car but not in much detail. [...]
The Piranha
I don’t know where car companies come up with the names for their models. What's a Sephia? A Camry? Heck, for that matter, what's a Camaro, other than one of the most famous car names ever? [...]
Where every day is Memorial Day
Welcome to Tuesday, or, as many of you will know it, the first workday of this week. Me, I spent Memorial Day in the office working on this column and National DRAGSTER assignments, trying to get [...]
All wedges, all the time ...
Ho hum. Another week, and still more loose threads from the wedge discussion. Sorry for today's late-week posting and that this will be the week's only entry; the work overload on National DRAGSTER [...]
Today's topic: Wedge Top Fuelers (surprise)
Thanks to several stats junkies, including Stephen Justice, Chris Stilwell, and Steven Wolfe (who hand-typed reams of info!), Bob Frey is a little closer to closing the loop on his stats treasure [...]
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