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My view down the road….
Hitting the road before dawn, I skated along an icy early April highway and slogged my way through a thick fog all the while thinking, "This better be worth it…!" I needn't have worried. The destination was the 64th Annual Gopher State Timing Association's long-delayed spring fling and it seemed there were more than a …
Heading into the second leg of our September hotrodding road trip, the clock was re-wound a bit as we found ourselves at Wisconsin's Rock Falls Raceway. Now, I've heard that there are those who believe time travel is, literally, possible. Maybe that's based on deep theory and high-brow calculation that's light-years above my pay grade. …
Continue reading "Hotrod Roadtrippin’ 2021, Part 2: The “Fall Out”"
Looking back, I'd say this was one of the best adventures on asphalt that I've had in a long time: three buddies and me, smack-dab in the middle of Hot Rod Magazine's 2021 Drag Week. Our schedule would take us to Indy's Lucas Oil Raceway on September 15 followed by a Thursday stop at Byron …
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Somewhere in the dusty dawn of hotrodding, Ford Model "T" and Model "A" engines with shaved heads, overhead-valve conversions and backyard-engineered speed tricks barked their way down backroads and race courses across the country. In the early days of racing, the four cylinder engine reigned supreme. For the F.A.S.T. (Ford "A" Speed Technology) Speed Trial …
Continue reading "Our Roots: The Iowa Four Cylinder Speed Trials"
It might not necessarily be a gearhead's only "trip of a lifetime", but it has to rank right up there. I've been wanting to visit for a long time and finally made the trip. Not a side trip, either. Some six hours one way, with one express purpose. Destination: Lincoln Nebraska and the Museum of …
Terry's Garage 