While Teddy Weaver had run in NMRA’s no longer contested Pure Street since ’03, he’s going full-throttle in NMCA’s ACT Mean Street this season, and he got off to a good start at the 11th Annual Ross Racing Pistons NMCA Muscle Car Nationals featuring the Chevrolet Performance LSX Challenge at … Read more

When NMCA and NMRA Tremec True Street driver Karl Blasi bought his ’90 Mustang GT in ’94, it had a factory 5.0 engine, five-speed T5 transmission and 28,000 miles on it, but almost immediately, he moved from 2.83 gearing to 3.73 gearing, the stock cam to a Ford Motorsports E303 … Read more

When Alabama-based Jimmy Cantrell brought his ’94 Ranger to NMRA Detroit Locker Truck and Lightning in ‘09, it was powered by a V6 engine with ported and polished stock-casting heads and a 125-shot of nitrous, and it clocked low twelves in the quarter-mile.

Around that time, he began to work … Read more

When Rick Riccardi rolls his ’81 Carpi out of his trailer at the 11th Annual Ross Racing Pistons NMCA Muscle Car Nationals in March at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida, it will look a little different than it did last season, and when he goes full-throttle to the quarter-mile, it … Read more

For the past eight years, Rick Riccardi wheeled his ’81 Capri in the NMRA’s Edelbrock Hot Street class, and with help from engine-builder Bob Oster of B&B Performance Machine, Dave Jack of Dave Jack Cylinder Heads, Marc Poldino of Hell Bent Race Cars and others, he continuously adjusted his engine’s … Read more

By Mary Lendzion

At a time when most of his childhood friends were riding their bicycles through the neighborhood, Alton Clements was driving his junior dragster down tracks close to and not-so-close to his home in Central, South Carolina. The sounds of his Briggs and Stratton-based engine and the scent … Read more

By Mary Lendzion

Located miles from the nearest city, the small town of Stevenson, Alabama, where Phillip McAllister grew up, was surrounded by farmland, and he began mowing fields when he turned twelve years old. While doing so, he would talk about cars with his dad, Harold McAllister, and … Read more

Working a part-time job while he was a high school student had its advantages for Louis Sylvester, Jr., as it allowed him to save enough money to buy his first car, a ’92 Thunderbird, when he was just sixteen years old. It boasted a 5.0 engine, and he slapped … Read more