With the race season winding down and finals and championships working their way into our weekends, what a summer it has been. Great weather, great racing and time to start thinking about your winter projects. Before rushing things, check out the September Issue.
FEATURES
KARMA – JOEY SALAS
Each of us gets our start in fast cars and racing from a variety of different people and places. Many of us, “grow up” at the racetrack per say. Maybe we went with our parents, friends or older siblings. Nonetheless, regardless of when you get the itch, it never seems to go away! “I was born into racing,” tells Joey Salas. “My dad had a ’90 Fox Body Coupe when I was a kid that he’d take to the track every weekend, and before long I was hooked. I watched him transform the car from a 600hp stick shift street car to a nitrous no-time race car over the years.
PRICELESS – GARY SPANIAK
Everyone has their shtick…or their way of being different or standing out…Usually it’s about doing something to get attention, like when people scale building walls or drop from a stadium roof… you get the gist. In motorsports, getting attention starts with developing not just power and speed but also a “look” For your car, and something else that has experienced a resurgence more recently, an identity.
TRIBUTE – DOUG BOLIN
Extreme Trauma in his life drove Doug Bolin to finish his wicked big block nitrous Chevelle. There are moments in the life of every human being where we ask ourselves; why did this happen? Or, how will I ever recover from this? And indeed these are turning points in our life and we can either shut down and give up, or press on and find some way to move forward. Doug Bolin experienced the most violent trauma possible when the love of his life was taken from him,
THAMES FAME – GARY CLINTON
Most hot rodded cars and trucks enjoyed previous fame as production vehicles. The Mustang, Camaro, and
Challenger, or even the fifties and sixties big bodies, were all popular before they ended up in the hands of somebody with a more sinister plan for them. Some vehicles, however, just plain fell flat on their face as production vehicles, but somehow, somewhere somebody saw something in them that would make them a good candidate to “hop up.”
HIDDEN GEM
7 SECOND CYCLONE – RANDY DOLENSECK
Randy’s Cyclone was purchased in 1990 with the intention of building a serious drag car that would run
in the 9’s in the quarter-mile. Like many drag racers that was all good, that is until that goal was achieved and then 8’s didn’t seem too far away, so a new engine was built by longtime friend Pete Robertson. Randy explained, “for years we raced with that first combination until we decided to get really serious and make a march for the magic 7-second zone.
