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NHRA Dragster Insider: Warning Runaway ramp-truck column ahead
Warning Runaway ramp-truck column ahead   Another column, another collection of awesome ramp-truck shots sent by the Insider Nation. Anymore, I'm finding it cooler to ogle the cars on the backs of the trucks than I am the trucks [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Ramp trucks? Yeah, we've got ramp trucks
Ramp trucks? Yeah, we've got ramp trucks   You guys had a lot of spare time on your hands this weekend, right? I don't know how else to explain the avalanche of ramp-truck photos that appeared in my Inbox the last several days. Seems that a [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Keep on truckin'
Keep on truckin'   And the wheels on the ramp truck thread go 'round and 'round. So here we are, columns later still talking about ramp trucks as this thing grows bigger and bigger tentacles, reminding many of the way [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Ramp Truck Tuesday
Ramp Truck Tuesday   It's Ramp Truck Tuesday at the Insider … OK, well, I guess it doesn't need its own day of the week anymore because stuff just keeps pouring in. I've received a ton [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Band of brothers
Band of brothers   How many can you name? (View bigger) They belong to a fraternity founded in the 1960s, back when they were all younger men with limitless dreams in their heads and scores of [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Of Snakes, Mongooses, and horses
Of Snakes, Mongooses, and horses   Today's column is a bit of a mash up of comments from recent columns, including the ongoing ramp-truck discussions, Tommy Ivo's glass-sided trailers, "the Snake" and "the Mongoose," [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: 'Snake' and 'Mongoose' collection
'Snake' and 'Mongoose' collection   Y'know, I thought I was one of the biggest "Snake" and "Mongoose" fans in the world, but Jeff Mittendorf has me and just about the rest of you beat like the Army Monza did the world in [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: More ramp-truck ramblings
More ramp-truck ramblings   Not unexpectedly, everyone flipped over "T.V. Tommy" Ivo's trailer gallery here Tuesday, including Jim Randel, who saw Ivo's Corvette-topped truck in the early 1970s. "This was probably [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Tommy's towing toys
Tommy's towing toys   So, last week I mentioned that Tommy Ivo was putting together a little something for your reading enjoyment about his glass-sided haulers. I had dropped him a line to ask where he had gotten the idea, [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Is there anything you guys don't know?
Is there anything you guys don't know?   If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times in the 350-plus columns I've filed here: You guys rock. Sure, a lot of times, I'm the guy coming up with the topics based on whatever tickles my [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Just ramp truckin' along ...
Just ramp truckin' along ...   Predictably, the ramp-truck thread is expanding and appears about to run out of control like a trailer that jumped its hitch. And I'm smiling all the while. Keith Crouch of Toledo, Ohio, [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Going all commercial on you
Going all commercial on you   From early indications, this ramp-truck thread may just turn out to be another long-winded wedge-type deal as tips and pics continue to flow in and out of Insider International's global information [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Ramping up the excitement level
Ramping up the excitement level   News of Don Prudhomme's find of former partner Tom McEwen's Hot Wheels ramp truck, first reported here last week, has really ramped up the excitement, if you will, at the prospect [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Two of a kind: 'Snake's' new find
Two of a kind: 'Snake's' new find   For a guy who created and lived a lot of it, Don Prudhomme sure digs drag racing history, especially the equipment that helped make him a megastar in the sport. He began by tracking down [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Two of a kind: 'Snake's' new find
Two of a kind: 'Snake's' new find   For a guy who created and lived a lot of it, Don Prudhomme sure digs drag racing history, especially the equipment that helped make him a megastar in the sport. He began by tracking down [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Power to the people
Power to the people   It's not as if I didn't know this would happen, but I was besieged with e-mails following Friday's Patriotic Power column, in which I foolishly made what I knew was only a [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Patriotic power
Patriotic power   Well, here we are, on the cusp of a Fourth of July weekend, a time that's known as much for backyard barbecues and fireworks displays as it is an expression of pride in the United States. [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Frequent flyers
Frequent flyers   I have to "hand" it to you guys. Wednesday's column about promotional handbills and flyers prompted a mini flood of submissions of some of your favorites, which no doubt will revive a lot of [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: A day late and a column short
A day late and a column short   Click for full size Don’t cry for me, Argentina, but it has been a super-busy week at National DRAGSTER, and I apologize for missing our usual Tuesday appointment and for a [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Feedback Friday
Feedback Friday   It's Friday, the end of the working week for a lot of you, but with Bristol thundering along this weekend, plus the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion and more going on around the country, it's [...]
NHRA Dragster Insider: Bet you're pretty tired of the streamliner stuff, but...
Bet you're pretty tired of the streamliner stuff, but...   So, there we were, enjoying brewskies and fine bench racing at the annual Scott Kalitta memorial get-together in the Kalitta pit Saturday night in E-town. One well-lubricated PR type, a self-professed [...]