Seeing Dick Pelkey’s high-riding 1955 Chevrolet gasser at Musclepalooza on Memorial Day weekend conjured sepia-toned memories of the Badman model kit. As a kid, I thought the Badman would be the perfect automobile for all-around daily use: big-block Chevy, open headers, straight front axle, and “Adios Mother” painted across the trunk lid – a phrase […]
New dragstrips here in the United States are so rare, they border on nonexistent. With the spread of suburbia and the rising cost of operations, it’s all most dragstrip owners can do just to stay open and keep the neighbors and noise regulations at bay. Yet in Washington state, something unusual is happening: a brand-new […]
These three photos recently showed up in our inbox courtesy Charles Beesley, he of the excellent Reservatory.net. As Charles noted, they depict the famous Kenz and Leslie 777 twin-engine streamliner at Bonneville in 1950, the year that driver Willie Young pushed the streamliner past 200 MPH. Charles wrote: Bill Kenz founded a Ford V8 specialty […]