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Drag and Drive folks are a special breed of folk, and in here we'll talk about how they got started doing this stuff and when/how/why got them into the car and hobby they're into now!
Episodes
This dude showed up at a rocky mountain race week with a blower mounted to the chassis of his Fox Mustang complete with a 3rd pedal and even though he struggled that week, the hook was set and he was going to be back every year with something cool. The mustang eventually ended up with a turbo but kept the stick, and for a while he was duking it out for the quickest stock TKX car. He's got a twin turbo automatic car he brought out...
Scott is an OG drag week dude, from a fox body mustang with a grand national v6 in it (that his wife still drives) to his 3rd gen jet, a 427 LS with a huge turbo on it that is aptly named because it sounds like a jet when it's spooling up. We met in 2014, and we've been cool since. We reconnected at sickweek when Klepinger and his family were slinging hot dogs, and I was eating them with a quickness!
Scott is such a cool dude and ...
Known as the Mayor, because he's from a town of like a dozen, Andrew has been in drag and drive for a while now. Starting with a big boat impala with a typical turbo 5.3, he made a name for himself in the 10.0 index class with the 10.0 ET limited impala. He got serious and got into a new edge mustang capable of printing slips with 7 in the front, and has since competed with that at a number of drag and drives. He now is, among w...
After the dancing and tiptoeing finish to shearing his lug studs on RaceWeek 2024, he heroically fixed it under the tower and went on to win the BMF shootout with his rowdy radial car on 235's. He was freighttraining folks with a turbo LS chevy colorado.
Fast forward to MegaWeek (after this episode was filmed) and Josh pulled a rabbit out of a hat and tuned my Cadillac which was somehow wounded. He fiddled through HP tuners and mad...
Heiling from the great white north, the Brandon's have been all over and done all sorts of things with cars in the past, to include their now 7 second legal/capable GT-R. The now drag and drive ride has done road rally work as well as some transcontinental speed work in the past, but has settled in nicely as a drag and drive contender.
On a personal note, I love these two, and this was super fun to sit down and get to learn more ...
Eric is one of the Texas racers, and Stevie and I were lucky enough to be able to meet with him and his wife Crystal through the years, and he's also been a good sport about me making fun of his Toyota's.
A dude that started with a turbo 2JZ powered IS300, he's been back in his Lexus GS-F as well, which is Toyota's version of the coyote, basically, a 5.0 naturally aspirated V8 that runs well in the 13's on street tires.
This dude als...
Builder and driver of the "nightmare" blown alcohol drag and drive Mustang, Royce is a staple in drag and drives now. We talk about drag and driving a roots blown monster in a sea of turbo LS stuff, what he's got coming next, and even a sneak peek of his wife Shaylese's new Camaro, which he's since campaigned at Big Sky Raceweek!
Check it out! It's going to be LOUD!
Nick is my best buddy's nephew, and I got him into drag and drive a few years back, where he met Phil. Nick has a CTS-V coupe and Phil a ZR1 corvette, which are powered by nearly the same engine, so the friendly rivalry was on instantly.
This was a fun one watching a couple of friends chop it up and party with me on the cast. Check it out!
I can't believe I've done 50 of these. I wanted to make this one special and include Jason, who is the dude I'm talking to and having a beer with at Sick Week a few years ago, and when I decided to start doing something like this to highlight the stories of people far and wide.
Jason is a hoot though. He's got the chicken coupe and of course Angel the amazing wonder dog!
This dude has fed me, offered me a bed, and even the shirt off ...
Raj is KNOWN for huge ass burnouts in his Olds powered 442, but who knew he had like 6 of these things?!??!
He's a guy I had the pleasure of having a few parking lot beers with and we had some good conversations. This dude is a pilot from the Yukon Territory up in Canada, like on the Alcan highway kind of stuff. He's a nitrous fiend, and of course that makes him cool in my book, but what got him his start in Oldsmobiles? What get...
Steve is a gangster with a couple of badass rides, but who knew he got his start in VW's and Honda's? I do now! A NYC based guy, he's got a 6th gen camaro with twins that runs well in the 8's, but it's tech limited to 10.0, where he typically runs it on RMRW. He purpose built a Grand National to come terrorize the 8.50 field though, and he's done just that, and got himself a big ol win at the shootout of 2024's FAF from Raceweek...
Alan is hilarious and also wheels one of the baddest/heaviest street cars in the land. His 1970 Gulf Green Monte Carlo runs in the 6's and weighs 4000 lbs!!!!! SMX powered, he drag and drives this thing like it owes him money, and we'll talk about what got him his start with the Monte and what it's like having one of the baddest street cars in the land!
Dane is a super good dude that does a kickass youtube channel called "burndown." You'll find it when you find the one with the rooster holding a lollipop. He's a down-home mechanic on his show that builds cool stuff for low money and shows you how to do it too!
He's the driver of the maliboom, that unfortunately had a water pump let go and get water under the tires at Thunder Valley Raceway in Oklahoma City, OK on a raceweek and stu...
I met Danny a long while ago in the Colorado drag racing scene. He's been a staple out there for as long as I can remember. Fast forward a few years and Danny married WAY up and in the process got himself a cool as a cucumber step-kid, Makayla. She grew from a shy kid to an absolute force to be reckoned with at any Rocky Mountain Race Week event, and even earned herself a Wally trophy at Pueblo Motorsports Park.
This one is aweso...
Owner of the self proclaimed "slowest twin turbo big block fox body on the planet", Gary is an OG drag weeker and racer out of the Kansas/Missouri area. He's also cohost of the Heads up racing podcast. We had a blast talking about hanging with superstars on our shows, and blasting around his ride with his friends. Gary was a blast, and this was a super fun show.
Danny is a globetrotter now, he's been on Rocky Mountain Race Week with his truck, and he's the dude known for selling it all to go racing. This one is special timing because he just announced that he MOVED to Thailand, and likely will be doing all sorts of stuff with the BAS shop there doing some diesel promod racing, and some diesel longboat stuff as well. Check out his page(s) and see what shenanigans he's into now!
(yes I am a l...
Travis and Amanda have both been drivers and co-drivers in drag and drives, and even brought Kendall (still in a child seat) along as a rider in Amanda's G8.
Travis' "show mod" Camaro has terrorized the rowdy radial category for years, we catch up with what they've got going on now, and talk about when we'll see the show mod back out!
THAT'S COOL... DRINK!!!! EPSIODE 41, CHRIS (MFN) STORY!
A photographer that quit his corporate job to snap photos for a living, as well as an Army Veteran, Chris is a buddy of mine that I keep running into all over the place, and I keep seeing his watermark on all sorts of absolutely gangster photos of the peeps doing the thing country wide.
Dude is one of the real ones, and it was fun sitting down with him.
A regular of the show, Matt is back on the 40th episode of That's Cool... Drink!!!!
It's always good to catch up with the dude, and this one was just a few weeks before RMRW in June of 2024, so we discuss what's happening for the week coming up, and overall just a good one to watch if you're doing a drag and drive in the near future!
Love this dude, and it's always fun to have him on the show.
Chad and I (and Daphne and Cole) became fast friends on Rocky Mountain Race Week in 2015 and we ended up at a bunch of the same stuff from there on forward and had some super good times, but I never had a chance to pick Chad's brain about how/why he quit his high-paying corporate job to seek out automotive journalism at the highest level in the forum days. He can now be found all over the country, nay, world doing all sorts of bang...
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