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Contents: Most Popular Driver (Year after year Bill Elliott gets the most votes, but Dale Earnhardt sells the most T-shirts. So, who is really America’s most popular sports car driver?); Grand Am Co-Op (Thad Friday may revolutionize Saturday-night sponsorship); Next! (Who are the brightest hopes of DIRT’s next generation); Ms. Miller Motorsports (A diminished field yielded a clear-cut winner) An SCR Special Section – Trailers (Our in-depth reporting not only tells you what to look for in a trailer, but what to look for in a trained dealer); Get What You Pay For? (With trailers, as with everything else, the cheapest can cost the most); Cowboy Coaches (Hundreds paid thousands for trailers that never arrived); Sources (How to find a trailer dealer near you) Technical – Marca Cars (They’re not toys, but they are a lot of fun); Daytona Tech (How teams handled 1997 rule changes); Modified Carbs (A BG Fuels carburetor can get the most out of a claimer engine); IMCA Setup (Start with basic specs, then tweak to taste); Something Old, Something New (An unbiased observer evaluates our Lunati project engine) Competition – Daytona 500 (Only extraordinary circumstances could have kept Dale Earnhardt from becoming the sentimental favorite. This race produced them); Gargoyles 300 (Finally, a Busch Series season-opener that wasn’t just a Winston Cup warm-up) Departments – Backfire; Dick Berggren; Bones Bourcier; Al Stilley; Andy Fusco; John Andretti; Racing On TV; 200 MPH Pit Stop; New Products; Last Lap
Issue: May 1997
Condition: Very Good