The links on this page will take you to
other websites that I find myself visiting fairly often. If you've not
"been there," I suggest that you take the time to visit them all.
I feel quite sure you'll enjoy most of what you encounter along the way.
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Happy
Surfing!
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All Gone!
- The Wheeler
Dealer diecast model is sold out! In 2001 1320
Inc., of High Point, North Carolina, introduced the first six
cars in their "The Fuelers" series of 1/24th-scale diecast models
featuring historic front-engined dragsters from the 1960s. The original
Wheeler
Dealer was the second in the series, the first being Tony Nancy's
"Sizzler" car, with Don Garlits' 1968 "Swamp Rat XII" number three, Dick
Kalivoda's "Joker" number four and so on. Orders for all current 1320 Inc.
releases may be placed online at Don Ewald's Fuel
Dragsters...We Did It For Love website.
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If you're a true gearhead, you no doubt
watch all forms of motorsports on The Tube. For up-to-the-minute
National television listings, I like Canadian George Webster's "Race
Fan TV" site for finding out the broadcast/cablecast times
for just about any motorsports discipline worth watching. (If you like
his site, please email George, and give him "a pat on the back." His is
truly a labor of love!)
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Gary Dawbin, fom Maine, has created
a Sanford Drags pics site with a goodly number of scanned photos
he took as a teenager, in the late 1950s. Go here
to see Gary's pics.
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RIP Nitronic
Research, 1995 -2003
Cole Coonce's Nitronic
Research - the "thinking man's" drag racing site. Gone but
not forgotten!
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Don Ewald's Fuel
Dragsters...We Did It For Love: The ultimate front-engine
Fuel Dragsters picture pages. Absolutely not to be missed!!!
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The nostalgia drag racing-related phenomena
known as "Cacklefest"
has grown by leaps and bounds in the past six years or so. Nostalgia competitor
and fan, Ron "Big Yohns" Johnson, has created a new web site devoted
to this ever-growing segment of the sport. Learn the history of the "craze,"
and check out the schedule to see if there will be a Cacklefest "coming
soon" to your neighborhood.
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Back in the early days of organized drag
racing, beginning in the mid-1950s, the weekly publication Drag
News was the most widely read source for the latest news and
views. It was noted especially for it's
Standard 1320 class records
list, and the fiercely fought Standard 1320 "Mr. Eliminator"
challenges
for supremacy in the various dragster classes. Many of the movers
and shakers that were in the headlines in those heady days are now a part
of today's Standard 1320 Group
- some 300+ died-in-the-wool drag fanatics and Nitro Junkies of all ages
and genders. Check out the 1320 membership
roster...how many folks do you remember -
or know?
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Drag Racing in Hawai'i?
You bet! Three of the four major Hawaiian islands currently have drag strips.
Of the three, only one of them has a website: Maui
Raceway Park.. The Big Island may be the first island to have
two tracks, with a new multi-purpose racing facility in the Kona
district now in the planning stages. Also, photographer Mike Thompson,
a Big Island resident, covers the drags action statewide. Check out Islandracer.com
for Mike's latest pics. (O'ahu's Hawai'i Raceway Park officially
"closed its doors" in April, 2006. The future of drag racing on that island
is very much in limbo at this point in time. Too bad...)
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George Crittenden presents NitroGeezers.com,
Drag
Racing's On-Line Historical Society "Dedicated to the Pioneers and Innovators
in Drag Racing & Hot Rodding"
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Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian - with photographic
help from husband Mark - has created an outstanding site that covers
the Nostalgia Drag Racing circuit extensively in words and superb pictures.
Check
it out!
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My pals George & Karen Adams
have a site that's dedicated to the glories of drag racing in the Northwest
quadrant of the country. Check out their 15 pages of photos from last year's
California Hot Rod Reunion at nwdragracing.com
... you'll be glad you did!
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Now, here is a prime example of a nostalgia
racing organization resurrecting itself. The American
Nostalgia Racing Assn. is alive and well. Visit
their website to see what's going on.
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Into racing stats? Want the very latest
news and photos from the "wide world of drag racing?" Bill Pratt's
Drag
Racing List site is the place to go!
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Drag
Racing Online showcases the talents of some of the finest writers
the sport has known including Dave Wallace Jr., Chris Martin and
Many
Others. For the very latest news and commentary (no BS!) be sure to
check it out!
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For a "different" perspective on drag
racing try Drag Racing
Underground ~ the cyber home for "The Doc" and others
from the lunatic fringe! (Just kidding J & D!)
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Then, of course, there are the two
"majors" in the sanctioning game - NHRA
and
IHRA.
Check them out for the latest happenings in the always facinating world
of big-time "corporate" drag racing.
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