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 […]
Stop number two of the season for Mecum Auctions is their upcoming Kansas City sale, scheduled for this weekend at the Kansas City Convention Center – Bartle Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. A quick tour of their catalog online resulted in a few interesting lots, including the 1969 Boss 302 Mustang above. One of 194 […]
Almost unnoticed, a really good guy and good racer passed away last week. Shirl Greer was a Georgia native, a true Southern drag stud, who improbably became the NHRA’s Funny Car national champion in 1974 under some wild circumstances. Greer had been in ill health, and passed away at a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee. […]