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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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 17, 2009
Is Top Fuel Wormhole an alternative NHRA history?
Is Top Fuel Wormhole an alternative NHRA history? Could Steve Jobs save drag racing? Or is too late? TalkRadioOne.com digs into the Top Fuel Wormhole with talk of Jocko Johnson, The Surfers, and “Wild Bill” Alexander — the outside, bizarre and death-defying figures who once defined drag racing….
Listen to the interview with Cole Coonce here: [...]
June 13, 2009
DragFink’s View From Inside The Top Fuel Wormhole
In a piece he calls “Top Fuel Worm Hole……Shot, ” artist Jeffrey DeGrandis (aka “Drag Fink”) takes an omniscient look at the tear in the fabric of Cole Coonce’s drag strip space-time continuum….
May 19, 2009
BangShift Book Review: Top Fuel Wormhole, the Cole Coonce Drag Strip Reader
In reviewing Top Fuel Wormhole, online motorhead daily BangShift.com (“The Car Junkie Daily Magazine”) pontificates thusly: “Part travel log, part history lesson, part social commentary, sometimes frustrating, always thought provoking, and ultimately an awesome read, Top Fuel Wormhole; The Cole Coonce Drag Strip Reader is one of the most challenging and interesting books on any [...]
