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Nothing illustrates the superiority of European design better than the sharp contrast between this first Mercedes model and Ransom E. Olds’s 1901-1906 one-cylinder, three-horsepower, tiller-steered, curved-dash Oldsmobile, which

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READERS RIDES JIM WEICHERDING When you read these articles each month in Motörhead Magazine what is the first thing that comes to your mind? I’ll tell you what comes to my mind each month when I pick up my supply of Motörhead Magazines for deliveries and handouts at area car shows and cruise nights across the region. I think about how diﬃcult it must be to be the publisher of this great automotive magazine and the dedication and hard work it must take to keep publishing interesting articles and putting together a simple but effective advertising format month, after month, every year. I think about what a great job our graphics department does with each and every advertisement and article that has to be laid out and planned with hours of creative efforts. What about all of the wonderful and informative articles and special features that our core writers have to put to pen and paper and keyboard to computer laptop every thirty days, month after month, to keep our readers coming back for more throughout the year?

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It’s not easy. It takes a lot of hard work to put together a magazine of this caliber on a regular basis. Our great advertisers are our lifeblood and our publisher is the backbone behind the scenes keeping it all together. The heart of Motörhead Magazine is our readers. Without them, we wouldn’t have a magazine. Our writers are our flesh and bone every month. We come up with feature articles and creative information for our readers all the time and we do it with a passion for our field. From the publisher, to the advertisers, to the graphics department, to our writing staff all the way to our readers, we have the same automotive passion. My READERS RIDES Feature Article is the driving force behind this passion and it gets our readers involved and excited about upcoming issue releases. This feature is very popular from our May issue through our October issue each and every year. It’s the time of year when their cherished rides go from hibernation and enter the real world of our automotive hobby and lifestyle each year.

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“TRACK PACK” PON By LAURYN “HOTWHEELS” VERNANCIO It’s not easy being diﬀerent, but sometimes it is the unique that draws even the most unlikely a�ention. Perhaps that is the beauty of why a genuinely rare counter piece can hold such value to those who gain a be�er understanding of it. It was quite the intriguing encounter upon formally meeting Shubham “Sam” Seth back in October and his dually noted 2014 Ford Mustang “Track Pack” GT. As a biased General Motors enthusiast, it can be challenging to appreciate other makes unless they have a “tastefully built” approach to which Mr. Seth’s has not only that but holds an interesting story as well.

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gives it its fiery inside appeal and will cause most to take a second glance at the look of race side luxury. So what is in the cards for this wild pony’s future with Mr. Seth? Well, it’s simple. Gaining a be�er track time at the quarter mile and focusing on general vehicle response through tuning technology is first on his agenda. Although this car can tear it up on the track, it is an every day driver that makes quite the fun work commute. Sam intends to have a shot defeating last year’s times at New England Dragway and possibly having a match-up against Louis Cicerone’s Hellcat and taking winner’s title. Be sure to look out for this pony at local cruise nights and at the track! you aren’t shell shocked, then you should be now. It was in 2007 that Sam had decided to take a risk and come to America to break into a new way of culture and busy himself into earning a Masters in college while working in a world he barely knew, and eventually find his first love. It happened by chance while walking home from school when he first set eyes on her, a beautiful brand new 2007 Shelby GT500 and from that second on he knew that he would never feel the same way again about any other car and a fascination had occurred. He took his time and learned about Carol Shelby, the car, and what it took to build such a beautiful machine and what it might take harness the power of a Mustang on his own. He put many hours into his occupation and saved up enough to buy his first which was a 2013 Mustang V6, however upgraded a couple years later to the higher powered pony that he holds the key to today.

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With it distinct markings and known vanity plate, this ride is definitely known and makes an impression upon entrance. While it may sound like the ideal road demon several blocks away, there are a lot of factors that give this bad ass machine some pep into its step. We can start with the tac�ul mod list; a Paxton Supercharger (installed by Juggernaut Power in Coonecticut), ID1000 injectors, VMP Bap, Race Blow Oﬀ Valve, Boss Manifold, 8 rib upgrade kit, modified suspension, Mcleod clutch/ flywheel setup, and an upgraded fuel system to name a few. What also makes this Mustang maximize its launch forward is its “Track Pack” option that was researched intensively by Ford. It holds a 3.73 axle making the vehicle have a be�er response with carbon fiber clutch plates for those who drive just a bit harder than up to Miss Daisy’s standards. Traction control was also recalibrated along with a be�er ABS system and a Brembo package for ultimate stopping control (not that we need that anyway!). The car also holds a decadent interior provided by Braum Racing that

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able to drive and own my own car. I wanted a Muscle Machine. I wanted something shiny and fast. I didn’t care what my friends were driving and most of them were driving mom and dad family cars anyway but not this guy. I was going to school in style every day. I started saving for my new car two years before I could even drive a vehicle. I had an envelope in my sock drawer and I would add cash to it every time I earned a buck knowing it was going towards my dream car someday. My friends were partying and spending their money on booze and having a good time while I was working in an apple orchard on the weekends picking apples, washing

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Xander’s Vintage RC Restora�ons Life as a Motorhead has only just begun By XANDER ANTHONY As a three month old boy, I have what seems to be a never ending amount of free time to ponder the wonders of life. As I thumb through my dad’s many years’ worth of Motorhead back issues, I constantly wonder “when exactly does a Motorhead become a Motorhead”. I’m not just talking about little kids sitting on the floor with a pile of Matchbox cars, even though that is an unoﬃcial start to many youngsters’ automotive Xander Anthony Yessaian futures. I’m talking about when a future Motorhead actually starts “tinkering” and modifying, and taking on projects that never seem to end. After that, what sparks the never ending fire to race everything you own? For my Dad, Motorhead writer Ed Yessaian, the urge to race anything and everything began around 7th grade when along with his friend Mike Perella, he became interested in Radio Controlled cars. My Dad recalled, in detail, quite a bit of that very enjoyable period of his life. My Dad’s Radio Controlled car fascination started when his uncle (my Godfather) Bob Pjojian came home with a Tamiya Subaru Brat radio controlled off-road racer. It was, at the time, one of the coolest RC vehicles around and took hours to build. My Dad recalls saving every cent he could to try and buy his own and would always carry his Tower Hobbies “Tower Talk” catalogs around in his school bag. It would take nearly a year and a half before his Uncle Bob would eventually buy my dad his own 12| Motorhead Magazine - April 2017

RC vehicle, a Tamiya Midnight Pumpkin (1953 Ford F100 pickup). According to my dad, it was one of the greatest days of his life. Shortly after building, painting, modifying, and occasionally breaking that Midnight Pumpkin, he heard from Mike Perella that every Friday night the Medford High School set up an indoor track to race radio controlled cars. It was at this point that my Dad became obsessed with making things faster, racing them, and then making them faster again. After a couple years of racing the Midnight Pumpkin, the level of radio controlled cars had significantly improved as technology carried the hobby to the next level. It was at this point that Perella got the Bolink Eliminator 10 and Ed Yessaian got the Bolink Invader Oval Racer. For months after these acquisitions, the two friends dominated the competition. Until eventually they would both take a short break from RC cars as they both got in to modifying full sized automobiles. Mike Perella would eventually return to radio controlled cars, enjoying the gas powered RC era and today hangs out at RC CARS OF BOSTON (www.rccarsofboston.com) which is one of the largest and most experienced dealers of anything and everything radio controlled. Perella would occasionally spark my Dad’s interest in returning to RC racing but my Dad’s heart always lied in the older vintage vehicles and as I mentioned in last month’s Motorhead, once he saw Jim Dayotas’ Tamiya Lunch Box he was hooked on restoring 80’s Tamiya vehicles for his baby boy, this guy right here, Xander Anthony. For our first father/son restoration project my Dad miraculously dug out his original Tamiya Midnight Pumpkin from almost 30 years ago. The body shell was demolished on the truck but he had a spare Lunch Box van shell to use it its place. With your buddy Xander on the kitchen table

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ning low 11 second E.T.s with a full interior and street trim. The car was fast, consistent, and ready for war. And Brandon went at it with his foot to the floor to pull off some impressive victories.

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Mike LeBlanc installed a floor shifter. Mike LeBlanc also notched the frame, built the rear end, and completed some body work after a small mishap on the track. Once LeBlanc was done with his part of the rebuild from the accident, an ALL-STAR TEAM of racers jumped into action to get the rest of the car together in just one week. Dan Christopher stepped in again, along with Brian Khoury, Brian Bell, Murray Family Racing, and Brandon’s father Raffe. By the time the team was done the car was run-

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help make drag racing great and let’s face it, the fans are the ones who the racing sponsors gear their advertising for so the fans are a vital part of racing. Remember, no bucks - equals no Buck Rogers. So this story and photos is for the New England drag racing fans. In the opinion of Motorhead Magazine, the greatest racing fans in all of motorsports are found here in New England and we have proof!

of the NHRA Mello Yello series last year, Jeremy Cross of Pomfret, Vermont got the kids out of bed on Sunday, June 5th, 2016, at 6:30 AM for a trip to the NHRA, New England Nationals. It was a rainy, gloomy Sunday when they arose with more rain the forecast. But the kids were headed to their first drag race and his son Jeremy Jr., age 9, was hoping to meet John Force and see him race. “My dad told me about him” he said while beaming, “he’s won like 15 championships.” The young man related this to me in a brief interview that Sunday, with a big smile on his face.

What we saw as racing reporters during the 2016 racing season confirmed this for us; New England race fans just can’t be beat! Take for example a few cases we present to you here, think about it and we are sure you’ll agree, the New England area has some of the most hearty fans of This photo taken at 12:46PM on the afternoon of June 4th, 2016, in the New England anywhere, anyplace, Dragway pit area shows 1320’ of racing fans, shoulder to shoulder. The team haulers anytime.

The little guy had not seen nor heard a single race car engine this day, due to persistent rain, rain drops were dripping off his nose as we spoke, yet here he was, rain soaked and having a blast with his family at a drag race. His elation was due to NHRA T/F car driver Terry McMillen, of Elkhart, IN, who bestowed an enormous Top Fuel car drag slick upon the family for coming to the drag race … in the pouring rain. Jeremy caught my eye happily rolling the tire along in the pits.

While more often than not, our stories and photographs are geared towards the gear heads and garages that race every weekend; where would we be without race fans? It’s the race fans that

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I asked his dad, Jeremy (Sr.) why with a forecast of rain for the day, did they drive two hours to a drag race with a shaky forecast? His reply was, “There was a chance they could get the race in, the tickets were already paid for and I knew the drivers and the cars would still be in the pits.” So Mr. Cross gathered up his tribe and they drive two hours to New England Dragway, in Epping, NH with

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On the previous day, Saturday, June 4th, 2016, the Jumbotron at New England Dragway had a big thank you on it from the NHRA, to the New England Dragway fans, for a sold out drag race. The NHRA deal with New England Dragway is four years into what was originally a five year package and the fan base is growing. Just prior to the 2016, New England Nationals, the track added a new section of grand stands to the north side of the track. All new state of the art seating that will be there for many years to come. And every one of the new seats were sold out for the 2016 New England Nationals. Front and center in the middle of this photo is 9 year old Jeremy Cross, of Pomfret, Vermont, who received this Top Fuel car tire from NHRA T/F car driver Terry McMillen during the New England Nationals in June of 2016. The race day was rained out, but that never dampened this young man’s spirits! Tom McCarthy Photo.

hopes of seeing the race. With Mr. Jeremy Cross were Marie Cole, her daughter Riley 15, Jeremy Jr. (9) and his twin Josie age (9). These fans are typical of the New England fans that love drag racing. They are loyal, dedicated and like the Winter Soldiers they are descended from, nothing will hold them back. Once they get it in their mind to commit, they do so with gusto. That the NHRA drivers like Terry McMillen, Leah Pritchett and others were out there signing autographs in the rain on a Sunday morning, speaks volumes about the NHRA, it’s drivers, and why drag racing fans are the best fans in motorsports. Especially the New England ones - hard core and dedicated are two words that come to mind right away.

What exactly motivates the fans is anyone’s guess and I’m sure it’s different for each individual one but there is no denying the power of nitromethane as part of the equation. Every time the air in the pits turns to a yellow-green fog and the cackle of nitromethane fed engines assaults the senses, fans flock to the sound. Some fans even bring their own gas masks to the races, just to get closer to the cars. Interestingly enough, It’s possible that the CH3NO2 I’ve yet to see chemical compound known more commonly as Nitromethane is a nitro fan with what makes NHRA drag racing ear muffs on or fans a bit different than other fans ear plugs in if from other motorsports. Tom they are wearMcCarthy Photo. ing a gas mask.

Whatever the case, the sport of drag racing has the best fans in motor sports, and in New England some of the best call New England Dragway home. During the New England Dragway 50th Anniversary celebration in September of 2016, despite threatening skies, thousands of the New England faithful came to NED anyway to see the Funny Cars, one more time. And when the King & Marshall F/C oiled down the track for a one hour and fourteen minute delay to kick off the night show – the fans stayed through that too. So here’s to the fans of drag racing and a special salute to the fans of New England where we all know how to weather a bad storm, wait out the bad parts, and revel in the success of our sport – to the fans – THANK YOU!!!

Alexis DeJoria, during a rain delay at the New England Nationals, signs yet another autograph for a fan who can’t wait to tell her how glad he is that she comes to New England Dragway, in Epping, NH, to race. Tom McCarthy Photo.

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iPod jack located somewhere in the passenger compartment. Sometimes it is in the glove compartment, often it is right on the front of the stereo. Similarly, most newer after-market car stereo units have a line-in jack, either directly on the front of the unit or behind the moving faceplate. These jacks are 3.5mm female stereo types that use the exact same type of connector that is on the end of your

Here’s a quick recap: headphones are low-impedance devices that expect a fairly low-level signal. When you connect your iPod to a stereo (whether it’s in your car or in your home), using the headphone jack will cause a couple of things. First, volume drop is prevalent. You have to jack up the volume on your iPod all the way and then probably turn up your stereo too. Because of the impedance mismatch, you will also likely hear a lack of bass response. These two factors make the headphone jack less than ideal as a sound source for your car stereo.

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