The Elegance of the Snake

The 28th Annual Dana Point Concours d'EleganceTM took place on Sunday, June 27, on the Monarch Beach Golf Links at the prestigious St. Regis resort in Dana Point, California. This year's event featured 100 years of Alfa Romeo and celebrated 80 years of design from Pininfarina.

The 2010 event Honorary Chairman, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, exhibited four of his classic Funny Cars, as well as his recently restored transporter.

Headlining the exhibit was Prudhomme's original restoration of the only remaining Mattel Hot Wheels 1970 Plymouth Barracuda Funny Car as made famous during the "Snake vs. Mongoose" match racing promotion, which saw Prudhomme and Tom McEwen square off in match races across the country while also making countless appearances at toy stores, retail outlets and other locations.

Also on display and transporting the Yellow 'Cuda was Prudhomme's frame-off and fully restored 1967 Dodge D-700 crew cab Hot Wheels Ramp Truck which famously toted his Funny Cars during the 1970's match racing era.

Prudhomme’s exhibit also featured the white 1972 Hot Wheels-sponsored Plymouth 'Cuda funny car, 1974 Army-sponsored Chevrolet Vega funny car and the 1978 Army Plymouth Arrow funny car which proudly carries the “Number 1” to reflect his fourth consecutive NHRA World Championship season.  (Ron Lewis photos) [6/29/2010]

Tommy Johnson Jr. returns to Iowa for Night of Fire [6/29/2010]

Aerospace Components to sponsor all NHRA Unleashed classes

The NHRA has signed Aerospace Components as class sponsors for the Outlaw class and all the Heads-Up classes at the NHRA Unleashed presented by Lucas Oil events. The Aerospace Outlaw class features eighth-mile racing in full bodied, stock appearing production cars with slight modifications to the vehicle. The Heads-Up classes are designed for the racer who wants to compete in affordable heads-up racing with full bodied production type vehicles.

The class names will be Aerospace Components Outlaw 10.5, Aerospace Components Limited Street, Aerospace Components EZ Street, Aerospace Components 8.5, Aerospace Components 9.0, Aerospace Components 9.5, Aerospace Components 10.0, Aerospace Components 11.0, Aerospace Components 12.0, and Aerospace Components 13.0. (Think Aerospace Components got their money’s worth with this one?)

NHRA Unleashed presented by Lucas Oil will be featured nationwide on Fox Sports Net in a series airing on consecutive weeks in November and December 2010. Two half-hour shows will be produced from each of the four NHRA Unleashed events, at, O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis (Aug. 6-7, 2010), National Trail Raceway near Columbus, Ohio (Sept. 10-11), Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Fla. (Nov. 5-6), and the recently completed event at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga.  [6/29/2010]