Full Throttle News: A Magazine For the Grass Roots Racer coverimage:    Signal Hill, CAMagazine review by Richard Parks and Photographs by Roger Rohrdanz Full Throttle News is a high quality magazine that focuses on the nostalgia, sportsman and grass roots drag racer. Richard Heath and Tom Hunnicutt founded the magazine in 1994, in a newspaper-like… Continue reading Full Throttle News: A Magazine For the Grass Roots Racer

Rocketman My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations by Ky Michaelson coverimage:    Feb 15, 2008Book review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Review By Richard Parks 7.9 out of 8 Sparkplugs A famous Country and Western song warns mothers “don’t let your sons grow up to be cowboys.” Well, mothers of America, Ky Michaelson’s book… Continue reading Rocketman My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations by Ky Michaelson

Flat Out: The Race For The Motorcycle World Land Speed Record By Rocky Robinson coverimage:    Book review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Rocky Robinson has written an exciting book about his efforts to set a land speed record in the streamlined motorcycle class. The book is called Flat Out: The Race For The… Continue reading Flat Out: The Race For The Motorcycle World Land Speed Record By Rocky Robinson

Drag Racing, Yesterday and Today; the Story of the World’s Fastest Sport by Wally Parks coverimage:    Feb 18, 2008Book review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Drag Racing, Yesterday and Today; the Story of the World’s Fastest Sport, by Wally Parks, is the first and only book by the founder of the National… Continue reading Drag Racing, Yesterday and Today; the Story of the World’s Fastest Sport by Wally Parks

Steel Helmet Staring Gene Evans coverimage:  Feb 20, 2008Movie review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Review By Richard Parks 6 out of 8 Sparkplugs The Gone Racin’ column reviews movies, books and other cultural arts that pertain to hot rodding and automotive racing. The Steel Helmet is a war movie set in Korea and… Continue reading Steel Helmet Staring Gene Evans

The Fast Lane; The History of NHRA Drag Racing coverimage:  Feb 19, 2008Book review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Review By Richard Parks 6 out of 8 Sparkplugs There have been few books so reviled and maligned as The Fast Lane; The History of NHRA Drag Racing, by Tehabi Books. Well, maybe the Bible… Continue reading The Fast Lane; The History of NHRA Drag Racing

Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970 by Harold W. Pace and Mark R. Brinker coverimage:  Feb 22, 2008Book review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Review By Richard Parks 7.5 out of 8 Sparkplugs Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970 is a hard-cover book by Harold W. Pace and Mark R. Brinker, published by… Continue reading Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970 by Harold W. Pace and Mark R. Brinker

Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors by Gordon Eliot White coverimage:  Feb 15, 2008Book Review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors, by Gordon Eliot White, is a paperback book on the history of American endurance racer, Ab Jenkins… Continue reading Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors by Gordon Eliot White

The Roaring Road 1919 Racing Film coverimage:  Feb 7, 2008Movie review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Review By Richard Parks 5 out of 8 Sparkplugs The Roaring Road is a silent, black and white film made in 1919 and starring Wallace Reid, Ann Little and Theodore Roberts. It was directed by James Cruze from… Continue reading The Roaring Road 1919 Racing Film

Blood on the Wall A Novel by Deke Houlgate coverimage:  Book review by Richard Parks, photographic consultant Roger Rohrdanz Review By Richard Parks 7 out of 8 Sparkplugs Blood on the Wall is a novel by Deke Houlgate and the background setting is the famed Indy 500 open wheel race at the Brickyard, in Indianapolis,… Continue reading Blood on the Wall A Novel by Deke Houlgate