I've been turning wrenches on my cars since 1987, when I was 23 years old. I'd have started a lot earlier, but my dad was a college physics professor with zero appreciation for cars. He wisely ...

I spent the first half of the 1970s wrenching on supercharged fuel Funny Cars. Those familiar with the breed know that even back then, nitromethane-burning Funny Car engines had short fuses and made ...