In this video from Evan Smith you are going to get to see a great historic ride from the early days of Pro Stock. We’re talking about a bad ass little Maverick that is arguably one of the coolest Fords ever. Check it out.

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Up close with the actual “Dyno” Don Nicholson Ford Maverick raced in Pro Stock during the 1970 and 1971 seasons. This car has a Ford “Cammer” 427 engine with so many trick parts. Please be sure to support us by subscribing to the channel.

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You guys say you want more videos and more projects – and we’re delivering! Welcome to the new section of the Riding with Alex Taylor Channel, where more episode with different content will come out. We’re pulling out forgotten projects, ones left to sit, and starting new ones. And we’re kicking it off with this 41 Willys Gasser with a 392 Blown Alcohol Hemi! This is the LAST Willys that Deb and Den every laid up out of their molds. It became a tribute car to the iconic Stone Woods and Cooks Willys of the past, got dad back into racing, and then it got parked after the Hemi kept giving fits. This is a good one, so buckle up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtMNDu-t5ko

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Watch, laugh, and be amazed as always.

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This 1967 Ford Fairlane was bought sight unseen after sitting for 40 years. This is a legendary street/strip car from Pottstown PA. We stuffed a small block ford and 5 speed manual in it. A guys going to take a few laps at the local drag strip, then attempt to drive it 900 miles home back to Tennessee.

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A huge shout out to all the members of the staff and crew at Famoso Dragstrip, while we chased rain showers, they had a safe, championship track ready for all the competitors… and got all on Sunday finished on Sunday evening!

However, going into the week prior to running the March Meet, Lee was still hunting for a supercharger and they just about pulled the plug on competing, at this event. They didn’t back into anything as evidenced by their first round victory over a red-lighting Matt Melendez, when Lee launched the “Pedaler” with the throttle stop still in place, to a 10.297 elapsed time.

Veteran funny car tuner Chuck Worsham was working every part of the engine alongside multi-time Heritage Series Champion Jason Rupert.

Lee went on to defeat Drew Austin and Cameron Ferre, meeting Jeff Arend in the final round. Lee cranked off a stout 5.658 at 260.01 miles per hour for the victory. The Pedaler had already set Top Speed for funny cars at 260.36 MPH in Round 2. Arend had difficulties, carding a 5.829 ET at 236.92 MPH after windowing a block in the previous round racing multi-time March Meet winner Bobby Cottrell.

This was Cory Lee’s first National Event win having raced on a limited basis with Turner since 2019. Lee tuned the Pedaler as well, hurting only a couple of pistons and a wrist pin during eliminations. Owner Turner is no stranger to Heritage-type funny car racing having won the Goodguys Championship in 2006 with driver Kris Krabill, racing undefeated that year with crew chief Donnie Couch.

Congratulations to Cory Lee, Gary Turner and Crew on your well-deserved victory!

Geoff Monise in the “Quarter Pounder” Pontiac was running solid with his number 2 qualifier 5.620 at 259.11 MPH, Bob Devour has come onboard to help co-owner Keith Clark, who celebrates his 50th year racing funny cars.

In the Top Fuel category it’s Tyler Hester!

Tyler Hester, driving the classic “Overtime Special” Top Fuel Dragster, had a day to remember as he won his first Bakersfield March Meet by clinching the Top Fuel title, beating Shawn Bowen in his “Violator”dragster in the process. After the win, Hester and his team were ecstatic in the darkness on the Famoso Dragstrip top end.

Michigan’s Shawn Bowen (above) was runner-up to Tyler Hester in Top Fuel.

The victory was a long time coming for Hester and owners Tedford & McGee, who’d been chasing a March Meet title for years. The day started with Hester taking out defending Heritage Series Champion Tyler Hilton and then defeating Pete Wittenberg in a close race, 5.725 ET at 261.67 MPH to Wittenberg’s 5.728 at 250.78 MPH as the two racers were neck-and-neck to the finish line.

Congratulations to Tyler Hester on his impressive victory and an unforgettable day at the Bakersfield race.

Newcomer Michael Anderson (above) showed determination in his Top Fuel Dragster, making his first pass in the 5’s at the wheel of his Donovan-powered dragster.

Pete Kaiser (above) now owns the Top Fueler he tuned and sometimes drove under Dan Horan, he qualified the gorgeous new entry into second in the 8-car field with a 5.735 at 255.82 MPH.

In the Fuel Altered final round, Lyle Greenberg’s “Cone Hunter” AA/FA faced Keith Wilson impressive “Witch Doctor” who he had beaten in the 2022 Bakersfield March Meet. Although Wilson crossed the finish line first, however, his 5.777 time was way too quick for the 6.00 index, giving New Mexico racer Greenberg the win. Greenberg defeated Johnny West in the first round and Ron Capps in the Burkholder Brothers Fiat in the Semis.

Keith Wilson’s “Witch Doctor” AA/Fuel Altered (above).

Wayne Ramay won the A/Fuel Class over Kin Bates Sr. in a final round battle, once again. Ramay won with a 6.057/217.00 charge.

Jr. Fuel was won by Oceansides’s Brad Woodard from the number 1 slot over Mathew Baldonado from Camarillo.

Jason Vanderpool won the 7.0 PRO Class on a single in the Final.

In Nostalgia Eliminator 1 Steve Schoenfeld from Murray, Utah, ran 7.677/153.44 to defeat Garden Grove’s Kenny Upton with his 7.895/175.09.

Nostalgia Eliminator 2 Modesto, CA Eddie Lucas in his ’48 Topolino ran 8.624/144.94 defeating Troy Moyle from Carson City, Nev. who ran 8.659/144.50.

In Nostalgia Eliminator 3 Ed De Staute’s ’62 Corvette from Rosemead, Calif. ran a 11.410/81.49 over a red-lighting Eric Harmon from Gold Run, Calif.

A/Gas was Bakersfield’s Kenzer Small’s Corvette running a 7.589/181.18 to defeat Tom Fowler from Paso Robles who ran a 7.575/177.04.

In B/Gas Bill Anderson from Copperopolis, Calif. in his ’68 Camaro, ran 8.642/148.48  defeating San Jose’s Rich Zondervan ’66 Chevelle, 8.716/146.88.

C/Gas was won by Stockton’s Michael Corradi in his ’70 Nova SS with a 9.864/123.66 over Crazy Connie Wold from Buena Park in her ’72 Vega 10.416/104.14.

In D/Gas Doug Fournier from Campbell, Calif in his ’48 Anglia ran 10.596/125.30 to defeat Oregon’s Steve Canton in his ’38 Austin, 10.525, 124.59.

Hot Rod Eliminator was won by Redding’s Joy Tucker in a ’66 MOPAR 10.780/120.52 downed Dale Hicks from Goodyear, Ariz., ’68 9.397/139.59.

Check out the first of our 2024 March Meet Galleries Below!

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I’ve got plans for another one of my cars to carry on the sleeper legacy this year, but when I saw this 1971 Nova it made me smile. I mean look at this thing! Slapper bars, steelies, flat hood and more. Wow. Check out the full feature video below and let us know what you think of this beast.

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I’ve wanted to build something like this car for a long time but I just never had the chance. I recently found out that someone I know wanted to put this up for sale. I had to immediately go check it out!

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If there’s going to be a triumphant pass of the day it was Geoff Monise, driving the Quarter Pounder Firebird, who nailed a booming 5.632 ET at 254.09 miles per hour late in the day. As one of his excited crewmen said on the Top End, “So I guess we won testing?” Co-owner Keith Clark is celebrating his 50th year in drag racing, this year with some help from veteran tuner Bob Devour.

During qualifying over the weekend, a special event will be contested between the ’23 Heritage Series Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car Champions.  On a single qualifying pass, two-time Top Fuel Champ Tyler Hilton and six-time Nitro Funny Car Champ Bobby Cottrell will decide who’s the “Real Kings of the Sport”, racing each other for a set of Sander Wheels and a pile of contingency sponsor prizes.

Tyler Hilton in the Great Expectations Top Fuel Dragster will race Bobby Cottrell in the “Northwest Hitter” Nitro Funny Car (below).

Past March Meet Fuel Altered Champion and NAPA Funny Car owner/pilot Ron Capps is getting comfortable in the Burkholder Brothers Fiat Topolino, making his first pass in the Altered prior to Friday’s first qualifier.

There are over 350 racecars who already started Gasser and Nostalgia Eliminator qualifying on Thursday as well. Those galleries and elimination photos will show up here over the upcoming days.

Enjoy this first Gallery from the 63rd March Meet from Bakersfield, California. There’s more to come!

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So check out video number one in the series, and we’ll keep bringing you more as it comes together. This is really going to be something special like we said.

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In this feature video you’ll get to see why this thing really is something special even though it is super simple. I dig it.

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The McCarthy family is known for building fast cars and driving the hell out of them! Always leaning towards old school, raw & sleeper builds this one has been a while in the making. Mason started building this car when he was 15 years old and built a true badass sleeper. 355 ci making around 500HP, straight cut gears on the vertical gate “no lift shift” dog box trans and all manual with no amenities whatsoever. This is a pure drivers car and not only can Mason build but he can DRIVE so sit back and enjoy the ride.

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Kellison drag cars are RARE and always interesting, but this one is WILD! Dr. Randall Zorn, an optometrist from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, had this Kellison built in the 1960’s. It has a custom dual rail round tube chassis, with a narrowed Olds rear end, DZ302 engine and clutch-turbo transmission. Although it looks like a funny car, this Kellison never ran nitro methane or a supercharger, so it often ran in the C/Altered class.

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Factory drag cars are fascinating because of the rarity and extremely high value, but also for the WILD combinations that the big 3 manufacturers (General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation) threw at these race cars. All of them were built to meet the homologation requirements set by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) for inclusion in Stock Eliminator categories.

Recently, the Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, Georgia put together a Factory Drag Cars exhibit, assembling nine amazing cars to represent what the Big Three brought to the table from 1963 through 1968. By no means does this cover ALL of the factory drag cars in existence, but it does hit the high points, and also covers a couple of outlying muscle cars. Here’s a list of the cars you’ll see in this video:

1963 Chevrolet Impala Z11 – Production Numbers: 50 – 427ci – Wally Bell’s New York Shaker

1963 Pontiac Catalina “Swiss Cheese” – Production Numbers: 14 – 421ci – Arnie Beswick

1964 Ford Fairlane “Thunderbolt” – Production Numbers: 100 – 427ci – Steve Honnell, original owner

1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Lightweight – Production Numbers: 50 – 427ci – Larry Davis

1965 Plymouth Belvedere A990 – Production Numbers: 101 – 426ci – Steve Atwell

1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS Z16 – Production Numbers: 201 – 396ci – Technically not a factory drag car

1965 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 COPO – Production Numbers: 1 – Also not a drag car, but special ordered with 396/425hp, M22 Muncie 4 speed and 4.88:1 gears

1967 Mercury Comet Cyclone – Production Numbers: 60 – 427ci – Steve Honnell, original owner

1968 Dodge Dart LO23 “Hemi Dart” – Production Numbers: 80 – 426ci – Mr. 4 Speed, Herb McCandless

This display of Factory Drag Cars was awesome, and we were able to experience it on a “hoods up” weekend to get the full experience of these super rare cars.

Z11 FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/K6kHPM3xkBc

Swiss Cheese Pontiac FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/5eOA7jGs928

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