This is Chevoom, the rear engined funny car created by Top Fuel star Maynard Rupp. The car might look like an ordinary ’66 Chevelle, but you will find a nitro burning blown Chrysler in the back seat.
The earliest photos in my automotive collection date to 1965. I shot this photo at a long-forgotten car show I conned my parents into taking me to. The car is a 1963 Chevy Impala and it apparently had a 327 small block under the hood
It was an ordinary looking industrial park, similar to countless others you might find across the country. I drove my rental car into the driveway, then stepped out and looked around me. That’s when I saw the ghosts. The people working in the buildings couldn’t see them, but I could. As a raw breeze brushed [...]
So the plan is to dig out many of these old racing images and display them on this blog. I also have many of my old stories, columns and features, which I will republish here as well.
