After this morning’s discourse of turbos vs. blowers (actually, only roots-style superchargers are blowers) I remembered this video from a few years back. If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty fun, especially when the wheelie bars FAIL. Sadly, they don’t show the big blower running, but the images look like something out of an issue [...]
This weekend, Pomona Raceway hosts the 2010 NHRA Winternationals. In honor of that event, here’s CSX2248 – one of five dragonsnakes built for drag racing – and the winner of the 1964 AHRA Winternationals in Daytona.
There’s a 4-page article on this car in the February 2010 issue of Muscle Car Review, in case [...]
By now you all should be familiar with the paste-eating, babbling, straightjacket-worthy insanity of that legendary purveyor of turbines and turbine accessories, Turbonique. Lest you think that the egregiously dangerous rocket drag axles were limited to dry conditions, may we present for your eye-rubbing, stupefied enjoyment, the Boss Cat I, a Turbonique-equipped 1,000 HP rocket [...]
“If you think cars on rails are the hottest thing in drag racing, take a look at this!” In case any of you Hoons out there thought all the Dodge A100 van was good for was rusting or crushing your lower extremities in a low-speed collision, think again! All you need to do to spice [...]
Hi, I’m Turbonique. You may remember me from such thrilling films as, Rocket Drag Axle Zombies Attack (in Drag!) and Strict Products Liability My Ass! Do you folks realize that in the wild, carefree days of the ’60s, I sold rocket-powered insanity to a jubilant and un-litigious drag racing crowd? Relive the nostalgia through this [...]
Your Hooniverse Public Service Announcement for this Friday afternoon: Triple-digit speeds and loose fiberglass body panels do not mix.
That is all.
Photo Source: Ron Lewis, Drag Racing Online, Via RacingNetSource, on Flickr.