Shop Tour - Hardcore Drag Racing

        Tim Hutzenbuehler is better known as "Tim Hutz". Tim is from Milton, Florida and has been into cars and racing almost his whole life. He grew up by a near by hi-performance shop and got to see hot rods and race cars pass him by daily. ​ On a rare occasions he witnessed some of these cars doing burnouts down the street. when Tim was in his teens he had some friends who owned 1970-72 Chevy Novas and when a local drag strip opened he spent a majority of his twenties watching his friends race and then he starting building his own cars and trucks to race.     Tim's first taste of racing was when he built up his high school ride, a 1978 Chevy C10 pick-up, he also hung out with a group of hot-rodders from town. After gaining some experience with the C10 he was asked to drive a big-block 1970's Trans-Am. When Tim launched the car he felt the rush of adrenaline flowing through his veins, at this moment he said he was hooked on drag racing!    ...

    In 1969, Chrysler redesigned the C-Body platform to incorporate its new Fuselage styling that transformed it into a much sleeker design. The new C-Body design saw Chrysler ditching the cab forward look of the early-to-mid 1960's in favor of a more muscular silhouette mimicking the muscle cars of the era. By no means were these heavy weight sedans and coupes intended to be muscle cars, but some owners took matters into there own hands.    This 1971 Plymouth Fury is owned by Anthony Biella. Like most of us Anthony fell in love with cars at a young age, he grew up working at his family's shop, Capital Discount Muffler in Islip Terrace, NY. He would go to work with his father and they would always be working on Mustangs & Firebirds, his father owned a 65 Mustang and his uncles owned 68 & 69 Firebirds. ​ Anthony enjoyed going to car shows with his father, there he could experience the sights and sounds and even the smells of high-performance cars...

        Jay Willouhby was only 5-years old when his love for fast cars started. Like any kid growing up his obsession started when he played with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.    One of Jay's earliest memories was when he moved into a house that had dragsters printed on the wallpaper in his room.  Jay's neighbor had a front engine dragster, he would fire it up and roast the tires down the street, how cool was that !     Jay's first car was a 1970 Buick GS Stage-1, while the local high-school kids had Camaros , Mustangs & Chevells. There was a lot of street racing in those days and Jay could beat these guys with ease, even with the A/C on.    He hasn't raced much, but recently Jay got back into it when Drag & Drives started. It interested him a great deal. He entered the Death Week by Sick Week but the car he had sold before the event, so the hunt was on for a car that he could enter the event. The car he found was an or...

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      Michael Michaud       Michael Michaud was born in 1962, during the beginning of the muscle car revolution. His father had some of the coolest cars of the 1960s. He had a 1966 350 H.P. 327 cubic-inch Nova Super Sport, Two 1967 GTOs, a 1968 Z/28 and a 1969 Corvette. The 1968 Z/28 was Michael's favorite. Michael said he's been a gear-head ever since the 60s.   Michael states that's he's been racing since 2002 and he runs at WIR in Wisconsin. My first trip to the drag strip with my dad was in 1967. I been hooked on racing my entire life, I have raced snowmobiles in the 1980s and 90s, I got into motorcycle racing in 2000 and built my first drag car in 2014 .   My first actual professional race car was a 1971 Nova called the Patriot.   Michael's last drag car was a Suncoast tube chassis Camaro with a 582 big-block that he built, it ran 8.04's at 172mph. Mike traded that car for the 68' Camaro he currently has .  ...

    A father and son duo  make a great team !     Joey Arrowsmith stated that the GTO he currently has is the first car he raced professionally, but It all started with his father. Joey went on to say that they didn't see eye to eye when it came to what they liked. He is a muscle car go as fast as you can guy, where I was into mini-trucks and low-rider's.  After Joe had his own kids he started going back to the track with his father again and fell in love with it all over again. The two have been going strong for 9-10 years now side-by-side racing.                                                                                                                ...

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  Mark Schiffner is the owner and driver of this beautiful 1970 Ford Torino Cobra. Since Mark was a young boy he had an interest in engines & horsepower, thanks his Grandfather. When he was just a junior in high-school, he built a big-block Ford 460, but he needed a body to place it in. Mark was lucky enough to get a killer deal on this Torino for only $650.00.          ​ Mark has raced other types of vehicles in the past such as snowmobiles and won Super Pro and motorcycle classes at his local track on a Mach Z Ski-Doo in 2006 but Mark said this was the first car he ever raced. ​   The Torino was built originally as a 429 Thunder-Jet N-Code  automatic transmission car. It now features state-of-the-art parts his  high-school self could only dream of. Mark built the engine, starting  off with the bottom end, the rotating assembly stretches the big-block  to the tune of 545 cubic inches ! ​The fuel is squeezed...