Comments on: The Pebble Beach of Drag Racing http://championspeedshop.com/wordpress/2009/03/20/the-pebble-beach-of-drag-racing/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:40:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cole Coonce http://championspeedshop.com/wordpress/2009/03/20/the-pebble-beach-of-drag-racing/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Cole Coonce Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:32:23 +0000 http://championspeedshop.com/wordpress/2009/03/20/the-pebble-beach-of-drag-racing/#comment-15 "Swinging Sammy Hale in the Champion Speed Shop special getting out against against Lee Pendleton’s Allison V-12 powered monster machine at Half Moon Bay." Talk about run-whatcha-brung! What is lost in modern drag racing -- and motorsports in general, in this the era of the cookie-cutter and the so-called "Car of Tomorrow" -- is the concept of "contrast." Contrast is interesting. “Swinging Sammy Hale in the Champion Speed Shop special getting out against against Lee Pendleton’s Allison V-12 powered monster machine at Half Moon Bay.”

Talk about run-whatcha-brung! What is lost in modern drag racing — and motorsports in general, in this the era of the cookie-cutter and the so-called “Car of Tomorrow” — is the concept of “contrast.”

Contrast is interesting.

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