http://racersforcoffee.today.com Drag Racing's Silly Season Exposed! Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:41:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Far and away, the single most significant person in the sport affected by Glendora's testing rule is Chris "the Golden Greek" Karamesines.  Back in '67, the Greek told a respectful reporter how he felt his life's mission was to simply give drag race fans "a good show".  Many bench racing ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/24/hellenic-horsepower/ ...the other shoe dropped when testing definitions were specified by Glendora a few dozen hours ago.  Internationalists have been given more than the traditional cold shoulder..famous since Larry Carrier ran that Tennessee based for-profit during my troubled teens.  Now anyone even pondering running anything but the big show series could ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/23/internationalists-imploding/ Leave it to me to read the "trades" of Drag Racing right after viewing a John Carpenter drive-in special.  When thumbing through the past 48 hours, however, too much of the teetering stumble towards Pomona appears undead...zombie creatures of a marketing entity inhabiting a corpse of drag racing's pride.  The ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/21/village-of-the-darned/ ...sometime during the last decade of the 20th century, the slowly developed nipponese-based high performance car journalist community began to coalesce their energy.  The colorful, often misogynistic, and always technically fascinating show and club scenes in LA, NYC and in-between had showcase quality periodicals available to help popularize, justify and...galvanize ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/19/a-truffling-matter/ I make it habitual to follow the slings and arrows of investors in our internationally-linked economy.  Ever since I first chose a drop in the Canadian "Loony" to time a foray into Vancouver, I've realized my personal goals and planning absolutely depend on the big wave action of markets abroad.  ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/18/high-performance-high-potential/ The death of a child at a Tacoma Dome motorexhibition yesterday is bringing forth a predictable discussion which includes everything to fingerpointing to debating the cultural mores of working class males.  This situation, resulting from a reported errant shaft chipping away from a driveline and flying into the stands, immediately ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/17/tdome-aftermath-looms/ Compton's Glendora....Glendora's Compton?...whatever...has posted a very vulnerable and sensitive-manly letter to the "community" he claims to oversee and perhaps own.  The vast audience his missive covers includes marketing reps, team managers, owners, drivers and..perhaps as a token oversight...the ticket buyers. I Can't really identify specifics within this 'we shall persevere' Winston ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/17/inershedding-skin/ I was counseled at a party last night to guard against spreading myself too thin.  After 3 hours sleep..and having danced to "Louie Louie" with our Governor(...gawd; don't ask), I'm pretty sure the drag racing genetic of driving it out of any situation possible is fully ingrained within me.  The ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/15/burning-the-candle-at-both-ends/ 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 ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/14/one-heat-up-and-one-cool-down/ ... a memo from the Monroe LA. plant, following the demise of "Joseph Q-Ball Wales" whose chutes failed the 4th of July weekend, 1966, prompted a discussion which stands ironic, in light of PRO's advocacy of shortening fuel courses to a thousand foot strip. A Dale Ham correspondence seems to have ... http://racersforcoffee.today.com/2009/01/13/quarter-mile-perspective/