American Way-O-Life Mandates Alky Front-Engined Dragsters For All Suburban Barbecue Parties
Does your Memorial Day barbecue feature a blown alcohol-burning dragster roaring to life in the driveway as your guests chow down on burgers and dogs?
That’s how Memorial Day celebrations are done in Denver! I met up with a few LeMons racers getting into the right frame of mind for the B.F.E. GP in July, as they helped bring the vintage drag racer back to life for the ’11 racing season.
It took a little coaxing, but eventually this once-peaceful suburban neighborhood had its quiet weekend blasted into oblivion by the Mile-Hi Flyer’s Hemi.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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Ya should have roasted your weenies on the headers
Hemi engines are as American as apple pie and dating your second cousin!