COMING SOON TO A TRACK NEAR YOU

We're here to serve. Your humble DRO crew is scouring the halls of this year's Performance Racing Industry show and secured these illustrations of multi-champ Warren Johnson's new Pro Stock ride in 2002. He continues his long association with GM in this wild GM Performance Parts paint scheme.

HERBERT GOES WEST

Doug Herbert added veteran wrench Johnny West to his team as a co-crew chief with Larry Frazier on his Snap-on Racing-backed Top Fuel dragster in an effort to win a NHRA World Championship. West, 47, spent the last two seasons as assistant crew chief for Top Fuel driver Kenny Bernstein, the 2001 Top Fuel champion. West will tune Herbert's dragster and work with Frazier and the race team. West's tuning approach has always been about consistency, dating back to the days when he owned and tuned his own Funny Cars.

"Making a car run consistently has always been my biggest goal," he said. "Doug already has a good team. It doesn't need much at all. The ingredients are there. It shouldn't take much for us to be contenders at every race."

Agent 1320 has been informed that Pat Musi has taken delivery and has already been racing a "new" '69 Camaro, Popeye II, which is a duplicate of the '69 that he has been racing for years with a carbon fiber body. The car made some 6.70 laps at the Citrus Nationals at Moroso. Look for photos of the new car soon in Drag Racing Online race coverage of that event.

Agent 1320 hears that Bob Rieger's heralded nitrous program is done, finito, kaput. According to the Agent's source, Rieger's radical EFI/DFI nitrous engine program at West Coast engine wizard Ken Dutweiller's shop developed an engine that produced almost 2000 hp in testing. Unfortunately, Rieger and his team were looking for around 2200 hp. The word is that Rieger immediately pulled the plug on that engine program and went back to a Brad Anderson, blown Hemi combination that produced 2200 hp on the first pull.

Look for Rieger to take delivery on a spanking new '57 shoebox from Tim McAmis and be testing in Florida in two to three weeks. The Agent will keep you informed of the results. Supposedly all of the Carl Moyer stuff that Rieger bought -- including the Gene Fulton motors -- are For Sale!