A LAWSUIT NOT CONNECTED TO PST

The Agent hears that Bob Gilbertson's Terminator Motorsports and Liberman Enterprises LLC of NJ will be filing a trademark infringement suit for $2 million against O'Reilly Auto Parts. O'Reilly has been and continues to sell "Jungle Jim" tribute car souvenirs in their stores. The suit claims that neither Gilbertson nor Liberman Enterprises have yet received any payments from O'Reilly. [9-23-2004]

FUEL ALTEREDS IN THE FINALS

Due to what NHRA says was the overwhelming crowd response at the 50th Anniversary race at Indy, NHRA has invited the four classic AA/Fuel Altereds to duplicate their exhibition runs at Pomona during the World Finals. The AA/FAs will run on Friday and Saturday afternoon to close the shows. The invited AA/FAs are Winged Express (above), Nanook, Rat Trap and Bradford's Fiat. This has to be better than ramp jumping snowmobiles or laser light shows, doesn't it? (Jeff Burk photo)  [9-23-2004]

'SNOWMAN' STILL COOL

Gene Snow won TAD at the NHRA Division 4 race Sept. 19 in Oklahoma putting his A/FD in the winner's circle. It's nice to see one of the guys who helped start the sport, still competitive. [9-23-2004]

KINNAN MOVES TO HOT ROD

Rob Kinnan has been named the new editor of Hot Rod Magazine, effective in October. Former Hot Rod editor, David Freiburger, will become editorial director for both Hot Rod

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and sister Primedia publication, Car Craft. Freiburger has been instrumental in recently returning Hot Rod to its drag racing roots.

Kinnan previously worked at ProMedia Publishing as editor of the NMRA Race Pages magazine and then as editorial director. With the names of the publishing companies so close, the Agent is taking bets on how long it takes Kinnan not to "mis-speak." [9-23-2004]