| Dodge-SRT rolls out complimentary drag racing school for Demon owners Brinkwire (press release) Participants will learn the rules and techniques of drag racing, including proper launch, staging, reaction time, signals, and pre- and post-run safety checks. It’s one day to turn Demon drivers into the most feared racers at the dragstrip. All of the action will occur at Bondurant’s facility at the Wild Horse Pass …
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| Louisville man transforms grandfather’s 1957 Chevy Bel Air for 81st birthday surprise WDRB We’d go drag racing all the time. That and he got me into cars when I was young,” Dedman said. Lamar got the car when he was 28 years old. It was a family car filled with countless memories, but hadn’t been on the road since 1976. “I never think I’d see that car. Oh lordy, I love it,” Lamar said. Instead of …
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| Ken Colquette, Vic Grider among 17 area hall of fame inductees Chattanooga Times Free Press He competed in track and field and golf as well as boxing while a student at Brainerd High, and he went on to a drag racing career that landed him in the NHRA Hall of Fame last year, when he was still winning big-money races at age 71. Lowe, who is deceased, was a Mr. Tennessee bodybuilder who in …
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| KUNA main news for Saturday, Jan 13, 2018 Kuwait News Agency KUWAIT — Kuwaiti racers bag up to 18 cups in Bahrain drag racing competitions, raising the name of Kuwait aloft once again. By Ahmad Al-Rifaee. Issued at 15:08 p.m. (12:08 GMT). Economic: KUWAIT — Price of Kuwaiti crude oil was down 15 cents Friday, settling at USD 65.93 per barrel (pb), …
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| UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018 UPI.com Benedict Arnold in 1741; Thornton Waldo Burgess, author of Peter Rabbit, in 1874; philosopher, medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer in 1875; novelist John Dos Passos in 1896; 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney in 1919; drag racing driver Don "Big Daddy" Garlits …
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