Sidedrafts for your small block

Chevrolet small-blocks and Weber carburetion tend to go together like Mom and applejack. The combination seems like it’ll be fun at the outset, but then things get complicated and out of control. After sleeping it off, you try to put it all out of your mind, bolt on a Holley and go about your business. […]

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 […]

RIP, Mac McKellar

The Pontiac hobby as well as America’s automotive heritage lost one of its greatest engineers when noted Pontiac engine designer Malcolm “Mac” McKellar passed away on April 9, 2011. Mac was the lead engineer and driving force behind Pontiac’s highly successful Super Duty racing program, which put Pontiac on the performance chart, where it quickly […]