During an interview on Speed Scene Live, author Cole Coonce explains the Top Fuel Wormhole.
YouTube footage here.
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May 14, 2009
Explaining the Top Fuel Wormhole on SpeedScene Live
May 14, 2009
CompetitionPlus: “Coonce Releases New Book”
“… Long regarded as the pioneer of the modern day e-zine, Cole Coonce has released his latest book titled Top Fuel Wormhole, Volume 1 of the Cole Coonce Drag Strip Reader…”
More here: COLE COONCE RELEASES NEW BOOK
May 22, 2008
WHO’S AFRAID OF ARLEY LANGLO?
by Cole Coonce
(excerpted from the collection TOP FUEL WORMHOLE)
(photo by Dave Kommel/Auto Imagery)
Despite the inevitable encroachment of Corporate America into a once idiosyncratic sport, one man still burns the torch of individualism in contemporary Top Fuel drag racing.
In the nether regions of the Pomona Fairplex (home of the NHRA World Finals), far beyond the cozy [...]
May 22, 2008
500 AND MORE: A SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICANA, THE INDY 500 & HUMAN NATURE
by Cole Coonce
(excerpted from TOP FUEL WORMHOLE)
1997– It’s the last days of May and in Lake Havasu, Nevada Troy Ruttman, winner of the 1952 Indy 500, lie dying. And even as death goes, this is particularly excruciating. Ruttman is suffering from lung cancer, and it is slowly, inexorably carving the vitality out of his massive, [...]