SEEING THE LIGHT?

Pat Herold’s slick Minnesota Cobalt drew huge crowd response during Pro Stock night qualifying rounds at the Joliet NHRA race with the simple addition of functioning headlights. Is it asking too much to make mandatory this one last bastion of “street car” credibility? (Bret Kepner photo) [10-04-2005]

PHOTO OF TWO DAVES

Dave Wallace Sr. (left) was presented a special award during the California Hot Rod Reunion by legendary announcer Dave McClelland. (James Drew photo) [10-04-2005]

DOES FEDEX KNOW ABOUT THIS?

The Agent just heard that Jeg's is now offering free 1-2 day delivery of parts for its mail order customers. The Agent will bet a large amount of his roll that the rest of the mail order folks like Summit Racing Equipment and Doug Herbert will have to offer the same
service. Sounds like a great deal for the racers to the Agent. [10-04-2005]

KNOLL FEEDS THE MASSES... KIND OF

The Agent got a press release saying the TORCO president Evan Knoll is going to put on a big feed for his friends and

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racers at the IHRA finals at Rockingham, NC this coming weekend to show his appreciation of them, and he's brought in award winning Texas cook and radio talk show host Ed Rivas to wrangle the pots and pans. That's the good news. The bad news is that you will need a wristband/invitation to get in, and an invite for the DRO staff wasn't included in the release. The feed starts on Saturday, Oct. 8, at noon. A tip o' the Agent's toque to Knoll for doing a nice thing for the racers. Now if the Agent can just slip by the chef's armed guard and snag a rib. . . . [10-04-2005]