Tag Archives: motorsports

Chevoom funny car: Maynard Rupp’s 1966 Chevelle

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.

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Maximum Performance Chevrolet: 1963 Impala

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

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The Ghosts at Sibley and Dix

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 [...]

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Still car-crazy after all these years

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.

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