Description
Contents: Speed Parts (We beat the bushes to find the latest and hottest high-performance parts from the aftermarket); The Cover Engine (Nelson Racing Engine’s latest 1,700hp, billet-laden, twin-turbo, 427ci eye candy) Feature Stories – Bolt-On Corvette (Jeff Schwartz was finally talked into building a nice, bolt-on Corvette for weekend cruising); Detroit Job Shops (With their DE work slowing down to a snail’s pace, Detroit’s hottest hot rod shops are looking for your business); Shelby’s In India (Call the loony bin, but we did in fact take a bunch of real, vintage Shelby-Mustangs and drive them through India for two weeks); Cobra Jets Return (Forty-one years after their triumphant debut at the Winter Nationals, Ford’s factory race cars do it again in Pomona); Hot Rod Drag Week V (Sign up now for the coolest automotive event of the year) Departments – Starting Line (Driving in India versus the U.S.); Second Opinion (Freilburger’s back!); Bench Racing (Pros and cons on the Toyomaro); Where It All Began (A look back at Bristol Dragway); Roddin’ At Random (The return of the HOT ROD Drags, sponsored by Flowmaster); Pit Stop (How to keep your cool); World Of Hot Rod (More Power Tour news); Finish Line (Taking out the Tree) Hot Rod Garage – Build A Muscle Truck (Pickups have V-8s and rear-wheel drive, and they can still be had cheap, making them perfect hot rod material. We build one and race it, showing how to have fun with trucks); 420 HP For $2,996.44 (We put last month’s dirt cheap, parts store 350 Chevy back on the dyno with more compression, better heads, and a new cam and kick the grunt up to 420 hp); Water Injection (Thanks to modern electronics, water/methanol injection is the hottest thing to hit blown/turbocharged engines in years)
Issue: June 2009
Condition: Very Good