Publisher’s Note: In keeping with this weekend’s motor-riffic machinations at the Bakersfield March Meet, here are some excerpted memories of that event from the pages of Top Fuel Wormhole. Specifically, this is Cole Coonce’s Top Fuel coverage from the 1998 and 1999 events, separated by a brief obituary of epic crew chief, Jim Herbert, who [...]
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February 17, 2010
Chris Karamesines: Top Fuel Wormhole Volume 2 Fodder?
HOT ROD Magazine’s feature on octogenarian dragster-driver Chris Karamesines is now available both on the newsstand and online.
Nitro-addled cybernauts can point their browsers here: ‘Never Slow Down: Keeping The Candles Lit With Chris “The Golden Greek” Karamesines’
Penned by author and drag strip journalist Cole Coonce, Karamesines rags-to-drag-strip-hero story is timeless — as is, apparently, “The [...]
September 27, 2009
Racers and Race Fans Ask: “Where Can I Buy Top Fuel Wormhole”?
Racers and Race Fans occasionally ask: “Where Can I Buy Top Fuel Wormhole”? It’s easy, peazy. Amazon. Lulu. AutoBooks-AeroBooks in Burbank. Stories Book Store in Los Angeles. Simple as pi … erm, pie….
September 27, 2009
BURY MY HEART AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE… or The Sands Will Come Again…
(excerpted from TOP FUEL WORMHOLE: THE COLE COONCE DRAG STRIP READER, VOL. 1)
“We did it all, and we’ll never see times like these again.”—Dean Batchelor, The American Hot Rod.
At first I thought it was a mirage. Or an apparition. I was suffering from an acute lack of sleep, my disorientation and sensory deprivation [...]
September 8, 2009
Top Fuel Wormhole: The “Wild Bill” Alexander Interview
THE CRASH, BURN AND RESURRECTION OF A WORKING CLASS HERO
The “Wild Bill” Alexander Interview
by Cole Coonce
This story is one of growth, transformation and alchemy as metaphor. Defined as “a medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold,” the process of alchemy involves the charring of metal, [...]
June 29, 2009
“I remember him for being an absolute lunatic… The good kind.”
In its “Folks of Interest” column, The Jalopy Journal evaluates the “Target Speed 29 Palms: The Guerilla Renaissaince is Now!” essay, excerpted from the book Top Fuel Wormhole: The Cole Coonce Drag Strip Reader.
To wit: “I remember him for being an absolute lunatic… The good kind. He thought differently than most, worked differently than just [...]
