STRAWBERRY JAM The mangled mess that is Scott Palmer’ s screw-blown’ 63 Camaro takes a ride back to the pits after a hung throttle sent the Top Fuel privateer through the sand trap and into the strawberry fields at the end of Bradenton Motorsports Park during qualifying at the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MELLIE SNEDEKER
KRUSTY’ S RACE In what was surely an emotional pass, Martin Connelley lights the candles in the nitrous-fed’ 78 Malibu formerly driven by the late Krusty Ramsey during the Street Car
Super Nationals in Las Vegas. Ramsey, a PSCA icon, passed last spring following a four-year cancer battle.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE CARLTON
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