Writing for Cars Illustrated was tough at times. As a hard core Street Racer with Top Fuel aspirations, it was awesome. I got to fill many pages with stuff I absolutely...
Author - Tony DeFeo
A crash course in Edelbrock/Carter AFB Carbs.
With the anniversary of 9-11 upon us, we thought we would throw this one out there. It was a Drag Test we did on the then-new Lincoln LSC. We had finished the...
The Cammer was the ultimate solution to the problem nobody was having. It was developed for NASCAR where the pushrod engines of the day were singing along at 7000...
“Atomic Batteries to Power, Turbines to speed!” Uh..yeah, forget that. There were no atomic batteries, or turbines..or any thing that...
Of all the hundreds of stories we’ve done over the years, this was and probably still is our favorite. A little back story on the publishing of this one. I had...
Another big reason for our general difficulty in obtaining test cars back in the day, is that we reported on them honestly. PR people hate honesty…and we hated...
Even though it was only eighteen years old when this story was written, the ’69 Hemi Daytona was already a rare collector’s item. We remember this one being...
This is probably the most talked about drag test in the history of drag tests. The numbers seem weak now, but thirty years ago, this blew a lot of minds. With our...