Racers For Coffee

We’ve been watching little Mickey Chrisman, son of Art, incrementally moving forward the craft of the injected front motored dragster for…a good 15 years, it seems.  Mike has dominated in alcohol-fueled machines with breathtaking consistency–and helped pave the way, along with Godhead Gene Adams, for the full-on ‘pop’ version to reemerge within the newstalgia scene I once danced around with nearly insane fanaticism.

Now Chrisman has teamed with fuel rat motor idol John Rodeck for the most interesting newstalgic Top Elim. entry in many years.  Rodeck, who in addition to pioneering aluminum chevy replication has never been afraid to do off the wall program direction, will probably eschew goofyness ala his infamous ’shorty’ mid engine machine of distant memory.  The “program” is the thing today, and a more Adams-esque transition is in the offing.

Another transition has led our hero Arly Langlo of Goleta to bring the history of Top Elim possibly around full circle for a true final …um..strike.  Langlo, the Nitronic Research poster iconoclast, was one of only SEVEN TF entries for Pomona til just a few daze ago.  Now, Natural Dogfur is glowing with pride at their “full field”…featuring the dozen year old chassis of dear ol’ Arlo-the obvious newstalgia TF star who will return to Pomona in about 22 daze… with our attention focused on his mechanical soapbox reputation, not unlike a fast approaching meteor aiming a direct impact on ‘murica.

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