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Contents: They’re Back! Vintage Funny Car Action (Inside the world of today’s righteous and raucous vintage Funny Cars. It’s like 1971 all over again) Feature Stories – TV Tommy Ivo (Drag racing’s greatest showman sits down with us to relive the past through archival photographs. You’ll like this one); ’40 Ford ‘Shine Car (Jim Blackburn’s ’40 coupe was inspired by the illegal hot rods built to run moonshine, but it’s all modern speed and comfort underneath); Targa Acadian (A musclecar you may not have heard of at a race you probably haven’t heard of, but both are truly bitchin’, Check it); 9-Second Hemi Dart (We go cruising in a 9-second Dodge Dart, nasty tunnel-rammed Hemi, Lenco, and all); Top Speed Challenge (Action from the 4th Annual HOT ROD Top Speed Challenge in Maxton, North Carolina) Hot Rod Garage – 540 Chevy Parts Test (We take it up a notch with our 540 big-block Chevy in the quest for 800 hp. As Maxwell Smart would say, “Missed it by that much”); Dart’s New Iron Block (The savior of small-block Chevy builders everywhere, Dart Machinery has just come out with an affordable 4.125-inch-bore cast-iron block. We go deep inside one with a chop saw to investigate it’s guts); 4.6L Hop-Up (In search of more power with a Junkyard Jewel 4.6L two-valve Mod motor, we try different headers, carburetors, and intake porting); Three-Valve Cam Test (Comp Cams has a new cam swap kit for the late-model Ford three-valve motors that retains the factory variable valve timing) Departments – Starting Line (The Indy 500 is back); Second Opinion (Campbell’s conundrum); Bench Racing (Dare to Be Different rules); Where It All Began (32 Funnies at OCIR); Roddin’ At Random (The original rear-engine dragsters); Test And Tune (Neat stuff you need now); Pit Stop (More than you ever wanted to know about ammeters); World (Information about HOT ROD TV and HOT ROD Deluxe); Finish Line (The ’55 Chevy 265 in cutaway)
Issue: September 2008
Condition: Very Good