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Superman lives!

20 Aug 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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  Long before John Force ever saddled up in his first Funny Car, drag racing had another gregarious character that we all called 鈥淪uperman,鈥 a tough-as-nails nitro jockey who piloted fuel dragsters and Funny Cars in a 20鈥
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Mondays with Murray: Shirley Muldowney

18 Aug 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Seeing drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney in the photos from John Force鈥檚 induction into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Novi, Mich., last Wednesday reminded me that I haven鈥檛 run a Mondays with Murray column in鈥
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If the Shoe fits ...

14 Aug 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Even as our Favorite Race Car Ever poll heads toward the final rounds, I鈥檓 still getting e-mails asking how I could possibly have forgotten to include this particular car or that car in the polls. The perceived slights run鈥
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Favorite Race Car Ever voting: 1980s and Beyond

11 Aug 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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Joe Pisano/Mike Dunn Olds Funny Car Don Garlits Swamp Rat XXX Top Fueler Gary Ormsby Castrol GTX streamliner Top Fueler Joe Amato TRW Top Fueler鈥
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'I was there:' Garlits debuts Swamp Rat 14

07 Aug 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
While watching the numbers on our '70s Top Fueler poll inch slowly toward the cutoff point (as opposed to the 鈥70s Funny Car poll, which is skyrocketing toward that number; there's still time to vote in both if you scroll鈥
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Favorite Race Car Ever voting: 1970s Funny Cars

04 Aug 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
鈥淛ungle Jim鈥 Liberman Vega Don Prudhomme Hot Wheels 鈥楥uda Don Prudhomme Army Monza Tom McEwen Hot Wheels Duster Raymond Beadle Blue Max Mustang II Ed McCulloch Revellution Dodge Barry Setzer/Pat Foster Vega鈥
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In the Mood

31 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Veteran fans recognize this masked man. "I never used the full-faced helmet," said Moody. "With both rear-engined cars, I used the old Tony Nancy leather face mask. I guess it was less confining, and I鈥
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Favorite Race Car Ever voting: 1970s Top Fuelers

28 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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Don Garlits Swamp Rat 14 Don Garlits Swamp Rat 22 Beck & Peets Export A Warren-Coburn-Miller Rain for Rent Don鈥
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Get 'er Dunn (and happy anniversary to us!)

24 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
  I鈥檓 putting the finishing touches on all the research-doing, photo-grabbing, and poll-making for the next step in our Favorite Race Car Ever poll, which will cover 1970s Top Fuelers -- look for it Monday, and, in the鈥
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Favorite Race Car Ever voting: Early Funny Cars

21 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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Sachs & Sons/Chrisman Mercury Comet Jim Liberman鈥檚 Chevy II Gas Ronda鈥檚 Ford Mustangs Arnie Beswick's Tameless Tiger GTO鈥
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Voting recap, making it up as I go, and your stories

18 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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Final results for all-time favorite exhibition car! "Winged Express" fuel altered 1394 (36.53%) "Little Red Wagon" wheelstander 1109 (29.06%) " L.A. Dart"鈥
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Favorite Race Car Ever voting: Early Dragsters

15 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
The Glass Slipper The Speed Sport Roadster Arfons Bros. Green Monster Don Garlits' Swamp Rat I Don Garlits' Swamp Rat鈥
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Favorite Race Car Ever voting: Early Door Cars/Roadsters

11 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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Sox & Martin Barracuda Bill Jenkins '68 Camaro Don Carlton Motown Missile Stone, Woods and Cook Willys 鈥淥hio George鈥
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Let the voting begin!

09 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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Bill Shrewsberry's L.A. Dart wheelstander Sammy Miller's Oxygen rocket dragster Jack McClure's rocket-powered go-kart Doug Rose's Green Mamba jet鈥
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Dry hops in heaven

07 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Buster Couch looks over as the Funny Car approaches the staging beams and winks at the new arrival, a tousle-haired kid with a lead foot whom he has known since the lad was in diapers. Scott Kalitta moves forward as longtime鈥
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Look, up in the sky, it's the Kite Cycle!

04 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
That daring young man on his flying machine. Here鈥檚 a little something different on this star-spangled weekend, prompted by a letter from regular reader/e-mailer Mark Watkins, who first wanted to鈥
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A little bit of this, a little bit of that ...

02 Jul 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education鈥
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Mondays with Murray: Don Prudhomme

30 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
If I鈥檝e said it once, I鈥檝e said it 100 times, and I bet that I鈥檓 not alone, but growing up in the 1970s, Don Prudhomme was my drag racing hero. There was no one cooler on the face of the planet, and it wasn鈥檛 just because he鈥
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Norwalk, and The Big Dig

What happens when you have a lot of rain and a high water table; how Frank Manzo helped save the day
27 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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麻豆精选's Graham Light and Frank Manzo work on the situation. Tuners Johnny West and Chuck Worsham assess The Big Dig.鈥
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Return to Norwalk

A return to the place I first drove a racecar, some 24 years earlier; travel misadventures
27 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Well, we鈥檙e here at beautiful Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park for the Summit Racing Equipment 麻豆精选 Nationals, and I鈥檝e opened the Summit Racing Equipment notebook left in my assigned place鈥
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So long, Scott ...

Remembering Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta
23 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
It鈥檚 Monday after the SomberNationals in New Jersey, and I woke up this morning, and Scott Kalitta is still gone. And we all face the hurt all over again. The kid who everyone in the pits used to jokingly refer to as 鈥溾
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They left their hearts in San Fernando

Memories of San Fernando Raceway
20 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
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(Above) Classic tire-melting 1960s Top Fuel action at San Fernando Raceway. (Below) Overall of the track and its famous tree-lined left lane. (Above) Longtime San Fernando鈥
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More cursed Corvettes

Corvettes that bit the dust; origination of some racing superstitions
16 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Feedback was, as expected, swift and sure on Friday鈥檚 superstitions column and the Corvette Curse. Our own roving lensman, Richard Brady, has been shooting 麻豆精选 race cars for five decades, so it鈥檚 no surprise that he鈥檚鈥
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Friday the 13th special: the Corvette Curse and other superstitions

From crash-prone Corvettes to wearing green and eating peanuts in the pits, drag racers are a superstitious bunch
13 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
Well, race fans, here it is, the day that鈥檚 more taxing to some people than April 15. That鈥檚 right, look at the calendar or at the date above. It鈥檚 Friday the 13th. Ooooh. Believe it or not 鈥 and have I鈥
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2,470 days later ...

Don Garlits' historic 5.63 pass stood as the quickest of all time for nearly seven years
11 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
On Oct. 11, Don Garlits ran 5.63 at the 1975 World Finals in Ontario, Calif., and backed it up the next day for a new 麻豆精选 national record, a record that stood until July 1982. Seeing鈥
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One of Funny Car's original mean, green machines

Saluting the career of Jim and Betty Green and their听Green Elephant Funny Cars
06 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
(Above) Before he moved out of the cockpit to own and tune, Jim Green was a good driver. He's pictured at the wheel of the B-Boys Auto Supply entry at Pacific Raceways receiving the B/Dragster trophy鈥
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Monday at the movies

02 Jun 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
So I stumbled across More American Graffiti on HBO the other night and got to watch 鈥淏ig John鈥 Milner in some faux 1964 footage as he raced at Fremont and kept hoping for that big 鈥渇actory鈥 ride. Although the film was shot in 1979, they did鈥
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Jeff Courtie: A pair of pretty sound careers

From Funny Car racer to movie sound engineer, Jeff Courtie has led an amazing life
30 May 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
As a kid gawking at the pit ropes at Southern California dragstrips, all we ever wanted was to be acknowledged by our quarter-mile heroes. A 鈥淗ey kid, how ya doing?鈥 or even a 鈥淪top staring at me, will ya?鈥 would have been鈥
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Train stories keeps rollin' all week long

Readers share their memories of the famous Freight Train
28 May 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
One great thing about great stories is that they beget others. The story of the fabled Freight Train, as told here last Friday, inspired, as I suspected it might with a topic that memorable, a flood of love for the Train and鈥
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Don't mess with Connie

26 May 2008
Phil Burgess, 麻豆精选 National Dragster Editor
DRAGSTER Insider
I hadn鈥檛 really planned on writing a column today since the 麻豆精选 offices are closed, but somehow I just couldn鈥檛 resist. The drag racing message boards are all a twitter 鈥 and my e-mail box overflowing 鈥 with word that one of Connie Kalitta鈥檚鈥
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