The specialty-equipment industry lost of one of its most dedicated and active volunteers, Dick Wells, who died January 18 from complications following heart surgery in November.
Don Garlits’ accomplishments in drag racing are literally the stuff of legends.
Roger Penske gave up a successful racing career to open his first car dealership in 1965, but that didn’t keep him away from the track.
The old familiar sight of several roadsters at a Southern California drive-in is fast fading away,” wrote Tex Smith in the July 1959 Hot Rod magazine.
In August of 1969, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins and his Grumpy’s Toy IV Camaro walked all over the competition at the Super Stock Nationals held at the York U.S. 30 Dragway in Pennsylvania.
At this year’s running of the Pikes Peak hill climb, Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima was the fastest man up the 12.42-mile, 156-turn course.
October 1964 was a busy month on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
SEMA News - September 2009
By Drew Hardin
Photo Courtesy the Source Interlink Archives
The big man in the Milodon T-shirt is none other than Don Alderson, Milodon’s cofounder (and the “don” in Milodon).
Forty-two years ago, the SEMA Show was born in the dark, cold aisles beneath Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.