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by: Tim Leeming
(Editor's note: Yes, we already ran one piece on Billy in this series, written by his lovely wife Barbara, and I suspect we shall do more from her hand shortly. This one however, was penned by our own Legend, whose...
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by: Tim Leeming
Several years ago, when I worked for a law firm that did business with several large law firms in New York, many of which were Jewish firms, we had an office manager who “never made mistakes” in the eyes of the senior...
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A Force of One
It was late November 1970 and “Gang Garlits” - Don Garlits, Connie Swingle and T.C. Lemons - were now almost two months into secretly building a revolutionary rear engine top fuel dragster, Swamp Rat #14, and were facing the...
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By: Wayne Snearly
Hello everyone. I am pretty excited about writing a little on the great sport of Drag Racing. I will be talking mostly about Nostalgia Drag Racing today as here in Central Illinois,( Bethany to be exact), a group of us just...
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Charlie Mincey - The History of a Legend, Before There Was a Legend
Charlie Mincey was born in the Bellwood Community, the roughest neighborhood in Atlanta, on November 19th, 1931. If you took basic math, you might could figure out that...
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**Editor's note: It is no accident that the author and this Saturday Night Hero bear the same surname. Our own Tim Leeming is the unnamed big brother throughout this story. Listen closely and you can hear the love big brother has for his little...
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Drag Racing Articles
We are enlisting writers to contribute to this area of commentary and will be posting our first drag racing article very soon.
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by: Dave Fulton
The temperature had reached 92 degrees on the sunny afternoon of September 13, 1981 at the dowdy old Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway. Thirty-two cars were lined up on pit road for the start of the Wrangler SanforSet 400 NASCAR...
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By: Cody Dinsmore
If you keep up with NASCAR at all... you might have heard about this season coming down to a close point battle. Kind of like last year when Tony Stewart dominated the last 10 races to do whatever he had to do to win his...
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by: PattyKay Lilley
Good day gentle readers, and welcome to this week's effort to lighten your hearts and bring smiles to your lips. The "Chase for No Sponsorship" is down to two races, and once again, it's "you know who"with the point...
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