SUTTON TO JOIN TAYLOR AT POMONA

Dennis Taylor will have a special guest in the pits of his Plumbing Concepts Top Alcohol Funny Car at the season ender at Pomona this weekend.

“The legendary Larry Sutton, former driver and official starter for Southern California’s most famous drag strips will be with us all weekend, helping out, signing autographs and visiting with our fans,” Taylor said.

“I’m sure we’ll see many other drag racing legends stop to spend time with Larry at Pomona.”

So stop by, get an autograph, and swap some stories.  (James Drew photo) [11/1/2007]

RACERS GEARING UP FOR SCSN

Many PSCA and WCHRA regulars are headed for Las Vegas for this weekend’s Street Car Super Nationals. This year’s West Coast Hot Rod Association Outlaw 10.5 champ, Rod Oxford (shown) will take the measure of other racers including Bob Griffith and Eric Lenore, Ron Weems, and Rich Zehring.

Pro Mod racer Kirk Kuhns has built a motor taking advantage of the PSCA small cubic inch rule and is taking his Willys to Vegas for his first Street Legal racing experience.

Monty Berney will drive his “Back in Black” Baby Bertha ’55 Chevy, and the rumor is that Billy Glidden will also be at the race.  (Ian Rae photo) [11/1/2007]

LIVE NATION TO REVAMP IHRA WEBSITES

Live Nation Motor Sports, promoters and producers of the International Hot Rod Association, announced a two-phase rollout of the new series’ web sites: NitroJam.com, StreetWarriorz.com, ThunderJam.com, ProAm.ihra.com, and SuperSeries.ihra.com.

Currently IHRA.com features content for the five series sanctioned by IHRA: Knoll-Gas Nitro Jam, O’Reilly Auto Parts Thunder Jam, Kumho Street Warriorz, Mr. Gasket ProAm, and Summit Super Series. The first phase will be the creation of the new Knoll-Gas Nitro Jam series web site, NitroJam.com, which will debut on Nov. 2. The remaining four series will remain on IHRA.com until early January 2008 when phase two is complete. Though each series will have its own URL, navigation between each series will bereadily available from each site. [11/1/2007]

PEDREGON MIDGET DRIVERS DO EVEN BETTER

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The Agent was remiss in not mentioning that Cruz Pedregon’s Midget team did even better than Gary Scelzi’s driver that we told you about yesterday.

Jerry Coons, Jr., USAC National Midget points leader and hot shoe for Cruz Pedregon’s Midget Racing team won the Arizona Midget Racing Association’s main event Oct. 20 at the half-mile Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, AZ. The other drivers on the podium for Cruz Pedregon Racing included three-time World of Outlaw Champion, Sammy Swindell, and Josh Wise, the 2006 USAC National Sprint Car Champion. Swindell took the checkers for second while Wise took third.

“To have all three Toyota-powered midgets finish in the top three is hard to do at any track across the country,” said Pedregon. “These are three of the best drivers in the country and I’m pleased with their performance. I’m happy for Advance Auto Parts, Toyota, Q, Snap-On and Great Stuff- they’re all part of my drag race team that also support my midget race team.” [11/1/2007]

HOLTON HEARS A WHAT?

Harry Holton talks with sister publication Mopar Max in the November issue. Now in his 70’s, the Hemi expert is still working and racing. See what he has to say. [11/1/2007]