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Are Two Bennett's Better than One??

With the SCSN IV only a week away, Father & Son Team Joe & Cody Bennett are chomping at the bit... With two runner-ups and semi final this year with the PSCA, we are counting the minutes until the Street Car Super Nationals start!!! Last year we came up a little short at the SCSN III with a RU finish in Double Index... Cody "The Kid" Bennett will be driving in Open Comp in our little red Vega for the World Finals make up race and for the SCSN IV, while the elder Bennett "Joe" battles in Double Index. Next year we plan on running 2 cars in the PSCA's Mean Street Class. The Bennett's would like to thank the following for making it all happen: Crew Member Jimmy, J&J Shower Pans, Mickey Thompson Tires & Wheels, Juan Pollo #29 & Grant Auto.

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Moran Motorsports Launches New Website.... 

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

YES, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS !!!

IT WAS 1959 SINCE HIS LAST WIN, WHICH WAS A SCTA EVENT AT EL MIRAGE DRY LAKES, IN CALIFORNIA.  AT THAT TIME HE DROVE IS 1958 CHEVY IMPALA TO A NEW RECORD OF 129+ MPH AND WON FIRST PLACE.  HIS CHEVY IMPALA WAS SPONSORED BY SPEED ENGINEERING, OWNED BY TOM "THE MONGOOSE" MCEWEN. HIS LATEST WIN WAS TROPHY CLASS IN A 2002 CAMARO Z/28. IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, AND BELIEVE IN SANTA, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. JIM WILL BE 71 YEARS OLD IN APRIL 2009, AND INTENDS ON RACING UNTIL THEY BURY HIM AT THE TRACK.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

It's Official..... Gliddens' To Match Race Cobra Jet's In Vegas

PSCA & SCSN President Mel Roth announces today that Ford Racing icons Bob and Bill Glidden, will battle each other in a best 2 out of 3 grudge race at the Street Car Super Nationals IV November 20-23, 2008 at the Strip in Las Vegas. Both Glidden's will be in Limited Production Ford Racing "Cobra Jet" Mustangs and the gloves will be off between these two Ford Racing legends!!!

For more info please check out www.streetcarsupernationals. com or call Mel at 661-917-3078

Monday, November 10th, 2008

PSCA's Dave "Coppertop" Murray has a son.....

PSCA Event Director Dave "Coppertop" Murray and his wife Christina gave birth to their first child tonight at 9:24pm, at Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center. Weighing in at 7lbs-12oz, Baby David and his mother are doing great... Congrats to the very excited 1st time parents!!!

SCSN IV Hopefuls Testing At LVMS.....

Marc Meadors, Mike Moran & Mark Wolfe were all at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Monday testing for the upcoming Street Car Super Nationals that will take place on Nov 20-23.. Even though Meadors (Pictured) McAmis 1969 Camaro did not make any full passes, his short times were mighty impressive.....

Brandt Racing Limited Street Car Almost Ready...

Here's the latest picture of the nearly completed K&N Filters Limited Street car of Gary Brandt. Brandt holds a slight lead in the points chase and is looking to seal up his 2nd consecutive Championship....

Brandt Racing Enterprises 

Team Black Returns to the Fight with a Big Gun!!!

               Story & Photo by Eric Lenore

Four time PSCA Pro Street Champ Ed Thornton and the famous black '57 Chevy that he drove have been missing from heads-up racing headlines for most of the year.  When an offer for the '57 came in from Australia, Ed and his popular crew (Shane T, Doug Stewart, Tom "Mr. Clean" Esbri, Derek Ludka and Larry Kennedy) were all wondering what their racing future would hold.  After all, the car was owned not by Thornton but by a humble guy known only as "Hal" who’s interest and support of turbo door slammers led to much of their success in Pro Street in recent years.   Hal made arrangements to move another one of his cars (a white '63 Vanishing Point Corvette) to the west coast from its current home in South Carolina where Vern and Annette Summer have flogged it for several years.   Now painted beautifully in black, thanks to PSCA Limited Street record holder Luis Ceballos, Thornton and the Accufab "Black" team have holstered a new gun and it’s a big one! 
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PSCA World Finals to Decide 2008 Champions

               Story by Eric Lenore

 The PSCA 10th Anniversary Tour has thrilled heads-up fans at each and every event this season and now it all comes down to the Edelbrock World Finals at the Autoclub Dragway. Four of the six heads-up classes have yet to decide a champion. From six second 220+ MPH Pro Streeters to affordable high eight second/low nine second Limited Streeters, the action is nothing short of amazing!!! From the sweet smell of burning rubber to the visceral thunder of a blown alcohol power plant, this event will simply rock your world!!!

In Hughes Performance Pro Street, the championship is coming down to a gun fight between two twin turbo small block Fords. Team Accufab's John Mihovetz holds a 55 point lead over Giuseppe Gentile and the Muscle Motors sponsored Shelby GT 500. As the current ET and MPH record holder, Gentile has an opportunity to earn bonus points if he can reset his existing records. Look for a huge battle between these turbo terrors as both contend for their first PSCA Pro Street Championship.
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Brandt Racing Limited Street Car Ready For Finals??

We at Brandt Racing Enterprises have been working on repairs to our Limited Street car following the unfortunate crash at the Las Vegas PSCA Race last weekend. It seems that the damage was more extensive than was originally surveyed. Everyone involved in the repairs have been putting forth long hours in the repairs needed. Our goal as always is to be at the Finals in top form and we will settle for no less than that. We expect to have the car completed and re-painted by next weekend and ready for the race. We have never missed a PSCA Limited Street race since we joined the class many years ago and would like to continue our consistency despite the setbacks that have occurred. We appreciate all of the support we receive from our fellow racers and fans. This was certainly a hurdle to leap but intend on springing back as we always have before.

Brandt Racing Enterprises 

Street Car Super Nationals Announces MAJOR News....

We have just learned that Record Setting Drag Radial Racer Paul Major will be making the trek from Fort Salonga, New York to Las Vegas, Nevada to compete in the 2008 Street Car Super Nationals Nov 20-23 on the legendary Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Xtreeme Drag Radial class..... Earlier this year in Englishtown New Jersey... Paul and his corvettemajor.com '01 Z06 Corvette reset the Drag Radial MPH World Record with a mind boggling 205.04!!! Paul also set his personal best ET (7.23) the same weekend (Shakedown at E-Town)

Paul Major would like to thank the following sponsors for making this trip a reality: Mickey Thompson Tires, Diamond Racing Pistons, Unlimited Awnings & GM Performance Parts.

For more information on this event, log onto www.streetcarsupernationals. com

Frustrated Racer Ready To Race Again.....

After 3 motors and only making 4 passes and missing most of the season we now have a motor that may live.  A 634 BBC, Injected on Alcohol. The short block built by Gil at NRP Racing sounds real healthy.  By the way Gil did a miracle and saved an expensive set of heads with magic welding. Thanks Gil. ( A Dig Dong for you) We hope to be competitive in Quick Street in 2009. The change to alcohol brought many challenges but us old guys finally got a handle on it. It should be a fun ride. No change to the all steel 56 Chevy, weighing in with driver at 4025. ( Now if we have a big buffet at the Cannery, maybe 4050) Yes, the stereo still blasts the Beach Boys while waiting in the staging lanes. We will be re-debuting at the Street Car Super Nationals this Nov 20 - 23 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway dialing in the motor, Hopefully all goes well.....Special thanks to my crew, Rick Holly Crew Chief, Merrill Clanin Always Ready, Rod Holly Full of Advice. Thanks to Mel for having an awesome race program. We broke so much, but it was a pleasure to go to the stands and watch the program. Thanks to the RFC program on Sundays, always there with support for all us racers. Special Thanks to God for allowing us to have this fun.
Jerry Lacy / Quick 656

Sonny's Most Potent N/A Engine To Date To Race PSCA......

We are not at liberty to say just yet what the actual Horsepower numbers are that came off the Sonny Leonard Dyno, but lets just say it may be most HP from a NA engine so far coming out of the Sonny's shop!!! The car being built for this naturally aspirated Monster is a Ness GXP, Brashwell Carburetion will feed the beast and a Liberty Trans with a East-West Clutch will transfer the power to the racing surface... If all the stars and planets line up, testing will be starting in a few weeks and quite possibly we will see this new car at the Street Car Super Nationals Nov 20th - 23rd at Las Vegas Motor Speedway....... 

Kelly & Will's Little Inline-6 Finally Gave Up.......

Well the turbocharged, Ford 250 Inline 6 in my wife Kelly's '63 Falcon
committed suicide while warming up to do a pass for the Speed Channel TV show "PassTime". She never even made it on the track. It ate itself during a warm-up drive up the return road at SIR in Tucson, AZ. 4 connecting rods are broke, the other two are bent, one wrist pin and many piston skirts are in the pan. The custom Clay Smith cam is fractured in 4 places. The mains and crank are fine other than a few bruises from the broken rods. Gotta love 7 main bearings! Unknown root cause so far, but could be a fractured #6 cyl. wall which might have hydro-locked the motor. The carnage is so bad it'll be hard to really tell what started the train wreck! Fortunately no obvious damage to the head, valve train or even the pushrods!

Work has already started on getting another motor built up. Depending on the route we take with the motor, we may make the SCSN IV with it. If not, we'll bring another car!

Talk to the Glidden's on Speed Scene Live Tuesday Night.......

 

Legendary racer Bob Glidden and his equally famous son Bill, will be on the Speed Scene Live TV show Tuesday night from 6:00 to 7:00 Pacific time. Just go to SpeedSceneRacing.com  and call 1-800-809-0802 to talk with Bob and/or Bill.... Viewers are welcome to phone in on one of our free 800 area code phone lines and talk to these great racers. Any question will be allowed and we expect the sparks to fly. Bob and Bill will actually be racing at the Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas Nov. 20th -23rd and they will be competing in the same class!

That's right, Bob may end up racing his son Bill in the 10.5 class.

Join us this Tuesday night on Speed Scene Live TV

For more show information www.speedsceneracing.com

Hairston Motorsports goes in the 6.30's At PSCA Fall Nats.......

For more race information www.pscaracing.com or www.lvms.com

For up to date info on this event www.streetcarsupernationals.com or www.pscaracing.com or call Mel at 661-917-3078

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Top Racer Needs A Donor Mustang.....

As most everyone knows, Chris Groves crashed his Record Holding Mustang at the last PSCA event in Phoenix.  Thankfully, he was not hurt but the car suffered a lot of damage.  It is doubtful that his Team and Chris can get the car back together this season as everyone has a very busy schedule with work and home duties.  Therefore the Owner (Roni Booth) will most likely sell what's left of the car.  The car was damaged in the left front, left rear, and left door.  The drive train was not damaged so all of the record horsepower is still there.  Most of the damage was to the exterior sheet metal.  If anyone has a donor Mustang to help out a fellow racer, please call Roni at 505-379-0341.  Thanks for all your help and concern. 

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Lucas Oils Qualifying Awards For Vegas Fall Nationals

The PSCA is proud to announce the continuous support from Lucas Oils for our number 1-6 Qualifying Bonus Awards... This Event will feature many of Lucas Oils quality products like 1 Quart of Heavy Duty Oil Stabilizer, 6 Quarts of Synthetic High Performance Motor Oil, Engine Break In Oil Additive with TB Zinc Plus and fir the first time at a PSCA Event, Lucas will also include a bottle of specialty Blended Engine Assembly Lube. PSCA Officials will roll a dice to determine what qualifier (1-6) will receive the Lucas Bonus Assortment (Racers must be present at the drivers meeting, if the lucky winner is not there to claim the prize, the Assortment will then be awarded to the class winner)
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Team OBI returns after 10 month hiatus

After a late season engine failure and chassis cert. expiration sidelined activities, driver Joel Orme decided to take some time off for family reasons. Upon Joel's return from absence, the Team OBI crew sent their Wild Street 1988 Ford Mustang off to the chassis shop. 'Wild Bill', of Hickok Race Car fame, was given the duty of performing the 25.5 updates necessary to remain competitive in the Drag Radial wars that were starting to heat up on the west coast. With the chassis situation all in order, Joel got together with Rocco at A.R.E. Performance & Machine of Simi Valley, CA to freshen the Mustang's bullet as well as make some minor updates while inside the engine. The crew at A.R.E. found some extra, much needed horsepower in the small block power plant to help in the battle against the turbo and supercharged cars of the class.  >>>Read More<<<

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Seth-Hunter back on track... 

The April PSCA Vegas event seems like it was forever ago but not to Greg Seth-Hunter and his beautiful twin turbo Nova. Greg lost control and nearly totaled the bright blue Chevy and like many who have crashed, he contemplated walking away from the sport we all love... Well after many months and countless hours in the garage, the Nova (Which now sports a flat black paint job) and Greg are ready to go back to the track and erase the memories of that horrible Friday night.  Seth-Hunter, like many of the PSCA racers are going to use this weekends Mickey Thompson Tires Fall Nationals as a "Tune-up" for the highly anticipated Street Car Super Nationals IV later this year on Nov 20-23. Good luck to Greg and his team and we'll see you back in the winner's circle!!

Monday, October 13th, 2008

First Picture of Thornton's New Ride...... 

The '57 may be gone, but Ed Thornton will not be disappointing all his fans when he debuts his new ride at the 2008 PSCA / Edelbrock World Finals this Nov 7-9 at AAA Dragway, Fontana, CA.  The familiar 447ci Twin Turbo will be wedged in-between the frame rails as Ed and his crew look to get in as many laps as possible before the big East vs. West Shootout in Vegas "Street Car Super Nationals IV" Nov 20-23, 2009. Ed would like to thank John at Accufab Racing,  Luis at Symbolic Collision in Ontario for the bitchin' new black paint and his crew (Doug, Shane, Tom & Larry)

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Sikora Getting Boosted in 2009... 

One of PSCA's winningest racers Doug Sikora, who debuted his new Nitrous Small Block Outlaw 10.5 Mustang earlier this year will be switching power adder's from nitrous oxide to a F3R ProCharger!! Sikora has the best in the business helping him out with this transformation, names like Job Spetter from Turbo People, Roger Conley from RacePak, PSCA Pro Street record holder Guisseppe Gentile, Jason from Pettis Performance and Jim Summers from ProCharger. Doug will finish up the 2008 PSCA season and attend the Street Car Super Nationals in the Outlaw 10.5 class with his current combo, then switch everything over and be ready to seriously test for the 2009 season in early January.

Dynoflo to Post $250.00 Cash Bonus in Outlaw 10.5

Dyno-Flo.com will be rewarding the Outlaw Racer with the highest MPH at the 1/8, for this weekends PSCA / Mickey Thompson Tires Fall Nationals. 

If you get into town a little early, and want to have a look at what all we do here at Dynoflo, we'll be open normal business hours 9a - 5p for shop tours and quotes etc... Feel free to stop by and see the joint. We invite folks to come down anytime, but since there is a race here this weekend, maybe it's a good time to see what we're all about.
If you break something at the track and need parts or machine work during the weekend, we can make it happen. The shop number is 702-567-3035, and Mel has Kevin and my Cell phone numbers for after hours repairs

Monday, October 13th, 2008

NRP to Reward Dyno Customers

This week only at NRP in Las Vegas....

We will Dyno-tune your car (Prices starting at $150.00) and if you win your class at this weekends PSCA Fall Nationals and have our decal displayed on your car, we'll pay you $100.00!!!!

Call today and schedule in your appointment...
Nevaraz Racing Products and Dyno
6925 Speedway Blvd. Unit #C111
Las Vegas, Nevada. 89115
702-499-1222

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Dedrickson Making Changes

Longtime PSCA Hughes Performance Pro Street Racer Dave Dedrickson has been hard at work on his Hemi Pontiac Firebird since his unfortunate meeting with a Fontana guardrail earlier this season... Dave is lengthening the chassis to make the ex-Pro Stock ride a little more stable and adding a new lighter, more aerodynamic front clip. The transformation is taking a bit longer than expected since Dave has been doing the majority of the work in-house with the help of his crew... Dave and his team look to be testing later this year and high hopes to be ready to contend for a Hughes Performance Pro Street Championship in 2009......

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Griffith/Lenore Headed Back To Vegas

After a 5-month absence from the staging lanes, Team Griffith/Lenore and the very intimidating Blown Viper will once again be slithering around the Las Vegas Strip. Getting some much needed data in preparation for the Street Car Super Nationals is on the mind of crew chief Eric Lenore as the car is ready to be loaded into the hauler and hit the road... This will most likely be the last time this year Bob Griffith will pilot the car as business will take him away during the tail end of the racing season.