Filming to begin on Snake and Mongoose movie this fall

Images courtesy Snake & Mongoose Movie on Facebook The biggest rivalry in drag racing history? Like you need to ask. Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, both very accomplished drag racers in their own rights, catapulted their quarter-mile careers onto front pages and into household-name status with those […]

TV Tommy Ivo: From child star to drag racing showman

What a life. TV Tommy Ivo went from youth actor in the early television age (Margie, starring Cynthia Pepper, although Tommy’s even earlier cinema co-stars included Boris Karloff and Jerry Lewis) to an unstoppably wild drag-strip entertainer, an actor almost cyborg-melded with a race car. It was, therefore, perhaps inevitable that TV Tommy was going […]

Getting a bite of The Snake

One thing we’re very proud of here is our relationship with one of the most legendary hot rodders and drag racers of all time, Don Prudhomme. The Snake is retired from both driving and active team ownership, but he’s been generous about sharing his past with us, and keeping us up on his car restorations, […]