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1982 Indy: The Nitrous Nationals (or not)

This year’s Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Auto-Plus will mark the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest Funny Car runs in drag racing history, Do

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Backtrack Tuesday: This, That, and Other Things

It’s Backtrack Tuesday at the DRAGSTER Insider, and I'm working hard to cleanse the inbox before diving into the two weeks leading up to the Big Go, the annual Mac Tools U.S. Natio

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Play it again, Sam

Sam Schermerhorn today, with girlfriend Paula and their pal, Budda I have a pretty good grasp of drag racing’s history and even of some of the mor

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'King Richard': Damndest Thing You Ever Saw

Frankly, I don’t even know where to begin when writing on The Life and Times of Richard Tharp. It has been an article I’ve wanted to write for years but pu

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Peebles, Woodall, and a golden era

From his first slingshots to the final rear-engine car (bottom), Jackie Peebles' dragsters were adorned with 24-karat gold plating.

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Remembering 'Joe P.'

If you turned 21 years old yesterday, I’d like you to raise a glass of your now-legal-to-drink favorite alcoholic beverage and toast the memory of Joe Pisa

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All that glitters is not Greek

Steve Reyes It didn’t take long after Friday’s column about “the Golden Greek’s” gold-plated ride to hit the virtual presses before folks started

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A challenging 'Challenge of the Sexes'

On Sunday, Alexis DeJoria came within just one round of becoming the third female to win an NHRA national event Funny Car crown before she smoked the

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Cleaning out the mailbag

Welcome to the day-late-and-a-topic-short DRAGSTER Insider for this week. I’m a day behind, like most of you are, after Memorial Day, and with travel Thursday to Englishtown for on

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Thirty years in heaven

(Above) Me, in 1985. Sharp-eyed readers will note the typewriter (electric at the time, but I started on a manual), the photo-sizing wheel (Photoshop? Ha!) and the

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