Some things just go well together: beer and bratwurst, beer and football, beer and beaches. What about nostalgic drag racing, in monotone slow motion, set to Italian opera? Curious? Make the jump, crank up the speakers, and prepare to be pleasantly surprised.
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What to do with a cheapo MG Midget with a trashed A-series motor? Budget autocrossing is too tame. Vintage racing is too obvious. How about slipping a 1380cc lump huffing nitrous between the rails and taking it drag racing? That’s a plan we Hoons can get behind. In our last showdown, the Volvo C30 shunted its two competitors into the weeds for a commanding 56% of the vote. Today, we’re reducing the number of choices so as not to confound addled pre-vacation brains. Two groovy gassers will go neck-and-neck in the Hooniverse drag strip of public opinion – who will prevail? The owner of this car is, in my eyes, somewhat of an aircooled VW idiot savant. He knows everything there is to know. He eats, sleeps and breathes deep sumps and drop spindles. He also has a little knack for building them from the ground up and has been doing it for people for years. [...] Be it F1, rally, stock cars or drag, vintage racing is a peerless paradigm of authentic automotive awesomeness. The sponsors were few, the cars were metal and the helmets were open faced. On some level, old-school drag racing wins points for being the most low-budget, under-engineered, whittled to a single purpose activity. F1 is a [...]
The Beebe & Mulligan Fighting Irish dragster team was one of the most potent of the late 1960s. John “The Zookeeper” Mulligan’s untimely death of heart failure following a fiery 171-mph crash in September 1969, ended his 7-year partnership with fellow Garden Grove resident Time Beebe, and left the So Cal [...] |
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