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I know. I know. I’m sick of winter too!

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That’s right, nothing any of us can do but wait. Wait for the weather to turn milder, and sunnier, and brighter and better for all of us Motorheads.

Doesn’t mean any of us have to like it. I stay in touch with a lot of my crew out there in Classic Cruisin’ Land throughout the winter months and our down season and everyone I have been talking to has the itch. They have Cabin Fever. They want out of their houses and back behind the steering wheels of their classic cars, muscle cars, hot rods and cool trucks.

They want to be out on the open roads, highways, by-ways, back roads and neighborhood streets again with their bright and shiny machines and do the things all of us Motorheads should be doing.

Heading to area Classic Auto Shows and Cruise Nights.

Heading out to the Race Tracks and DragWays across the region and New York State.

I know I want that. This being cooped up in the house or my working in my shop is getting old real fast. I want to go real fast! Not get old real fast. I’ve been checking my friendly DJ’s websites recently and it makes me smile a little bit more every time I visit them.

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You can also visit my friend DJ CarGuy’s website to see all of his upcoming

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So, if the weather has got you down, the winter seems to drag on forever, you have a bad case of Cabin Fever, don’t worry. By the time you read this article we are already be in the month of February and that means March and the first day of spring is just around the corner. Spring will be here before you know it Motorheads so keep the faith and stay patient. We will all be Cruisin soon and often across New England and the state of New York in 2018.

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FAREWELL TO THE DOD A True Icon Re�res in 2017

XANDER YESSAIAN The year 1992 was a fairly memorable year for my Dad, Motorhead writer Ed Yessaian, because it was not only the year he graduated high school but it was the year he was somehow convinced, in his own mind, that his parents were getting him a car for graduation and not just any car, the new for 1992 production Dodge Viper. The Viper was like no other vehicle produced up to that point in time. It was a true supercar, meant for serious competition but outfitted for the streets if one could afford the premium asking price. Concept versions and test vehicles had been spotted as early as 1988 but the actual pre-production vehicle did not make its debut until 1991 as the Indy 500 Pace car, in place of Dodge’s other sports car legend, the twin turbo Stealth.

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ifolds, and a rear-exit exhaust. The flagship GTS model was by far one of the best looking Viper models ever produced, especially when finished in blue with white racing stripes.

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By Greg Fowler Fi�y plus years ago, in my early twenties, I saw my first 3 Window ’32 Ford Coupe. A nice red Coupe with a V8 Flathead-I was in love. Life’s twisting road finally allowed me, over a five year period, to satisfy my need to own my personal 3 Window with all the performance and comfort features I had envisioned over the years. Yes, it was a long wait and a timely construction scenario, but it was well worth it. The pictures indicate it’s got an LS engine, not a Flathead.

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DON ROBER Always the warrior, Don Roberts is strapped in behind the butterfly steering wheel of Paul Broughton’s “Comanche” T/F dragster at the last New England Dragway Hot Rod Reunion. Tom McCarthy photo

TOM McCARTHY On September 13th, 2013, at New England Dragway, in Epping, NH, the National Hot Rod Association bestowed an NHRA Lifetime Achievement Award upon Don Roberts, of Georgetown, Massachusetts for “years of faithful dedication to serving the interests of others on behalf of the entire hot rod fraternity .” He was a bit flabbergasted when he learned he was to receive the award in 2013, “I really didn’t know if anyone noticed me really, I was just trying to go drag racing and further the sport” he commented of his decades in drag racing and Hot Rodding.

From Roberts American Graffiti like youthful years, steeped in that very era of Americana, he grew up pumping gas, was embraced by the Orientals Hot Rod Club and went on to become one of New England’s best known drag racers. He drove everything from Model A home built “Rail” cars to Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars. Don was even in on the build of Al Hanna’s first “Eastern Raider” jet F/C. Don’s burning desire to become a professional drag racer is a model of how it’s done; passion, commitment, and dedication to purpose are the foundations he built his career on. His fire to succeed took him all the way to the top and almost cost him his life. But he got off cheep in only losing his right leg.

Despite his career ending crash in a fuel dragster, Don soldiered on to become part of track operations, was instrumental in his support of New England Dragway and helped a fellow drag racer for two decades – after the fire of his competition years were behind him, this is his story, after the fire.

Every morning when retired veteran drag racer Don Roberts rises to meet the day, he begins the ritual: shower, shave and attach the prosthetic leg while dressing for work. He’s retired from his years as a hired hot shoe drag racer yes, but there’s still a mortgage to pay and a life to lead. So at the 38| Motorhead Magazine - February 2018

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It’s kind of amazing when you think about it. He was once a starry-eyed kid, who more than anything else in the world wanted to be a big time drag racer and the sport he loved took the leg he lost. Yet he’s not the least bit bitter about it. “It’s been a minor inconvenience for forty years really” he mentioned more than once while being interviewed. “It’s presented its challenges yes, but really, in the overall scheme of things; it’s been a minor inconvenience.” He beams slightly while he says this; such is the measure of the man.

That’s a big statement coming from a person who once wrapped his whole life around trying to advance in the world of professional drag racing. Then one day a career ending crash that took his leg, ended his lifelong dream.

His journey into drag racing began with an epiphany at age fifteen, in 1963, at a drag strip in Sanford, Maine, the birthplace of New England drag racing.

“I well remember my first trip to a major drag racing event, it was a life changing moment for me” he recalls. “There were six of us piled into one car driving basically from Boston to Maine. We each put up two dollars for gas and tolls, the guy who owned the car drove us. We needed a $1.50 each for our ticket into the track and another dollar covered the French fries with change left over for an ice cream.” Things were a bit different when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was in the Whitehouse in 1963. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was just thirty cents and the Beach Boys were Surfin’ U.S.A. Don was a young man attending Reading High School in ninth-grade when he went to his first major drag race featuring Tommy Ivo. Ivo was match

ERTS: AFTER THE FIRE racing his way across the USA at the time with his “Barnstormer” Top Fuel dragster putting on a show for the fans. Don knew from reading the hot rod magazines of the day that “TV” Tommy Ivo was a big name, California, drag racer and this was Don’s first time seeing a big name on the drag strip. “I was awe struck” he remembers with a broad grin and eyes ablaze. “I took one look at them out there on that track and I said to myself, I have to get out there, I want THAT to be me!”

There’s no telling how many young racers were inspired by Tommy Ivo with his match racing shows, but Don Roberts of Reading, Massachusetts, was certainly one of them.

From that day forward he chose to do whatever it took to get into a drag car, roll out of the bleach box, boil those hides and smell the nitromethane as the fans went wild. He vowed one day that would be him out there: on that day - a drag racer was born.

stuffed between the frame rails of an old Ford “Model A” frame, featuring stick welded support members and a homemade roll cage. The 265 CID SBC produced elapsed times in the ten second zone at close to 125 MPH on a good pass. In 1966, Don spent more time wrenching on this car than he did on anything else and it paid off on the last race of the season. His buddy John Watson whom he wrenched for all season long said to him, “get in the car Don, you’re going for a ride.” Last day of the drag racing season, 1966, Don’s big dream became a little closer to becoming his reality.

Don’s heart began to race like a small block Chevy on a rev-limiter as he gathered up a helmet and strapped himself into the cockpit for the very first time as the driver of a dragster. He sat in that

Roberts and Watson teamed up again in 1967 doing two things differently: they increased the motor size from 265 to 283 cubic inches of displacement and Don took over the driving duties. His first full pass in the car yielded an elapsed time of 10.60 @ 130 MPH, the cars best run to date. They did well at Sanford that season and they traveled for the first time to a new drag strip that opened in the fall of 1966, New England Dragway, in Epping NH. One of the prominent racers at N.E.D., took notice of the driving talents of Don Roberts and began watching his every pass that year. His name was Jack Doyle, the owner of a double A, gas dragster, known as “The Slider.” Late in the 1967 season, Jack showed up at Don’s gas pumps one day and

As a young man, Don worked a variety of jobs during his teen years which included gas station attendant. Pumping gasoline, checking customer’s oil levels and tire pressures were every day events back when America still had a polite society. Back when please and thank you were frequently used, men held doors open for women and our elders were respected. The men and women of the WW II era raised their youth to be people with a purpose, to hold down a job: to be someone people can rely upon.

Don worked at a Shell gas station in Reading, Massachusetts as a teen and he would see members of the local Hot Rodding club, The Orientals, come in for gas frequently. He’d also see them trailering their drag cars up to Sanford, Maine on weekends to go drag racing.

At the local club garage, not far from Don’s work, Don Roberts started out in the 60’s going drag racing, one of his big breaks came in driving for Jack Doyle who owned “The Slider,” together Orientals member Dick Rob- When they won many drag races and forged a life-long friendship that will never die. Paul Wasilewski photo erts, (no relation) often had his dragster in the garage cockpit for nearly an hour going over and over asked him “Would you like to drive for me?” Don’s for repairs and one day he invited Don in. “Next in his mind, what he needed to do to complete a life like an aircraft carrier suddenly turned into the thing I knew, I was in there cleaning parts, going good pass down the quarter mile.

When the time wind. He was about to launch and he knew it. No for coffee and on occasion, he took me along to came, he received a short push start from Watson more stick welded chassis with home grown roll the drags.” Don joined the Orientals as a member and the well-tuned car jumped to life.

He drove cages; this was a chance to drive a state-of-the-art some years later. the car to the starting line and staged. When the gas dragster.

Flag Man leaped skyward, Don mashed the throtFrom Don’s association with the Orientals, he Jack Doyle’s Slider had a new SPE tubular chassis tle to the floor for all he was worth. The launch began helping out all the club members with framework, a magnesium body and a stroked 392 pinned Don to the seat but the run was over as their cars as needed. A car owned by John WatChrysler power plant. The Doyle & Roberts effort quick as it started.

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Continued from previous page won the majority of their races in 1968, with a quarter mile elapsed time AHRA national record of 7.64 seconds for the AA/GD class.

They also netted both ends of the national record for 1/8th mile racing, posting a 5.25 @ 155MPH for the class. “What a season that was” Don recalls, “I was all of twenty years old and I was the youngest AHRA driver ever to win a Top Gas championship.” His dream was alive and he was on his way to living his dream then came Viet Nam. In September of 1968, Don received his draft notice and like every good American male of the era, he knew he needed to do his duty to his country, so he reported for duty. After basic training at Fort Jackson and advanced training at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, it was off to the Republic of South Viet Nam. When he arrived in country he was asked by his Sgt. “What did you do back in the world?”

He replied “I drove stuff” so he was made a truck driver Don Roberts (R) and Robert Young (L), both of the Orientals Hot Rod Club are still having fun to this very day at New England Dragway. right then and there. Com- Tom McCarthy photo bat tours of duty at this point in time of American history consisted of a one nings and whatever the car brought year mandatory tour of duty. From the summer of in. I never expected him to say yes, 1969, till July of 1970, Don served his country as a but he did and I couldn’t believe it.” member of the United States Army.

Driving for the King & Marshall team When he returned home in the summer of 1970, was truly hitting the big time for the drag racing class of Top Gas had pretty much Don Roberts. In fact his first time run its course as a class of racing and so had driving the car for the team was at competition drag racing for Jack Doyle. So the the 1971, Grande American race, at Slider was soon to be parked for good. Don was New England Dragway. To add icing without a ride and was looking for something to the cake of making the big time, new. He wouldn’t have to wait long. For every Don won the race beating none other door that closes in life, a new one opens: enter Mr. than TV Tommy Ivo in the final round Ade Knyff of A&J’s Speed shop of Malden, MA. of racing that day. For the kid who once dreamed big, this was as big as In 1971, Ade had a front engine dragster, said it gets. to be the last one that Logghe Chassis built for AA/FD (that’s double A fuel dragster) racing. It The King & Marshall team had not sported a 392 CID Hemi and this was a big step one, but two fuel cars they camup from a blown gas car. However this offer was paigned in drag racing. Jimmy King short lived. While Don and Ade were ready for a was the shoe in the Funny Car and full season of fuel racing that year, however the Don drove the AA/Fuel dragster and funds dried up and by mid-season the car was in time they switched off as needed. parked. That’s when Don’s big break into the big Don drove for the King & Marshall time occurred. team throughout the 1972 and 73 season but by season’s end it was Don Marshall of the King & Marshall racing team, clear that due to funding, the team one of the biggest fuel car racing teams ever to would park the dragster and concencome from New England, approached Don with trate on the F/C in 1974. Once again an offer he couldn’t refuse. King & Marshall had a this left Don without a primary ride. full slate of drag racing on their plate and Jimmy But Don was never without a ride for King was spending the bulk of his time devoted long. A good shoe never is. to the team’s Funny Car, so they really needed a driver for their AA Fuel Dragster. Don Marshall Don’s actual driving resume from asked Mr. Roberts “What would it cost us to have 1973 to 1975 reads like a who’s who Every morning Don attaches his leg and gets on with his day. A bad day you race with us for the season?” Don Roberts of New England drag racing: King & at the track took his lower member, but never robbed him of his memories remembers, “I asked for a percentage of the winMarshall front engine AA/FD 1971, and love for drag racing. Tom McCarthy photo 40| Motorhead Magazine - February 2018

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Don’s one pass in the Jade Grenade was the pass that forever changed his life.

The next chapter on Don Roberts life began during the spring of 1975, when a Pennsylvania based Top Fuel car team, competing in NHRA drag racing, was at the Gator Nationals ready for competition when they found out their driver at the last minute, was not able to compete at that race. Don Roberts happened to be at the Gators and being well known in the fuel racing community, Don was asked if he’d like to drive the car – The Jade Grenade. Don wanted to race but the primary owner of the car, Bill Flurer, wanted to wait a few weeks and put Don in the car at New England Dragway for a match race first. The date was April 20th and the Jade Grenade was booked to match race against the Barry Setzer’s Vega with Tommy Grove in the hot seat driving for Setzer.

Dragway for full time employment. His old racing team mate Jack Doyle was now Track General Manager and Jack offered Don the position of Director of Marketing and Public Relations. On race weekends, Jack and Don were responsible for running the whole show with a staff of about 12 people. Don wasn’t driving fuel cars anymore, so he started booking them and assisted in the day to day track operations.

“I never had a problem with depression or loss after my driving career ended. I was suddenly into the race track operations business and I filled my life up with that. I simply took my life in a new direction.” But the calling, as one would expect, did haunt him.

Don worked in operations at New England Dragway from June 1st, 1976 until the end of the 1981 racing season. During the 81 season, Don began communicating closely with racer Al Hanna who owned and operated the Eastern Raider Funny Car, which was on the nitro racing circuit at the time. This was when Al Hanna was first looking at getting into Jet Car racing as a business venture.

call and I took a job with Metric Screw and Tool, in Wakefield, Mass.” That was it for Don Roberts serious drag racing days.

It was not however the end of his association with the sport. Drag racing is a disease for which there is no known cure. Before long, Don teamed up with a sportsman racer, Paul Donahue, who raced in NHRA Super Comp, as a team member. For the next twenty years, from 1985, to 2005, Don assisted Paul in racing Paul’s S/C car and in so doing, kept his good foot in the sport he loved until Paul stopped racing.

Don Roberts has driven fuel dragsters, funny cars and competed at the highest levels of the sport. He’s competed against and with some of the biggest names in drag racing. “I’ve had a very privileged life in drag racing. I’ve raced just about everything there was to race.” From gassers and rails, to Funny Cars and Top Fuel cars, Roberts indeed drove them all. He achieved what most people only dream about - he lived his dream.

Don’s greatest achievement was not some trophy or cash award, but his triumph over adversity and

At the race, Don made his first and last pass in that car as he made his final run driving a fuel dragster. “There’s not much to the crash that I can recall. The car was great on the burnout and after the launch, as the car cleared the bleachers at around 800 feet, it made a move. I corrected, I don’t believe I over corrected, but the car went out of control and it flipped. Next thing I remember, I woke up in the hospital.” The car was a total loss, so was his right leg below the knee.

His leg was mangled badly to the point doctors from the outset were skeptical they could save it and they were right. “After close to ten days, it was not healing correctly and gangrene was starting to set in. I listened to the advice of some very smart people, the medical professionals, I told them to do what they felt was in my best interests.”

Don’s leg was amputated below the knee on May 2nd. In a matter of weeks, he returned to the pits at New England Dragway on crutches. “I was back at the track for the Spring Funny Car Nationals in June. I made my mind up while I was still in the hospital bed that this was not going to get me down. It never did, I didn’t let it.” Don received his new prosthetic leg on Labor Day weekend in September of 1975 and just continued to press forward.

At the New England Dragway banquet that fall, as is the tradition for New England Dragway, they presented their annual “Hard Luck Award” to the racer who had the toughest luck in racing that year. For the 1975 season, the recipient was none other than Don Roberts. They presented him with a toilet seat from the Men’s Room at the race track for his 1975 season ending up in the toilet. Perhaps the crown jewel of the presentation of the seat is the cigarette butt burn spot melted into the plastic seat. One can only ponder how many butts graced this seat before it was removed from the Men’s Room and presented to Don Roberts.

True to his sense of humor and positive outlook in life, Don has the seat proudly displayed in his garage at home along with a host of NHRA “Wallys” and various accolades. He still looks at that seat and smiles quietly to himself when he sees it.

Not one to walk away from a challenge, in June of 1976, Don took a position at New England

This gag-gift, a “Hard Luck Award” was presented to Don for his season going into the toilet in 1975. Still today it makes him laugh and remember the good times. Tom McCarthy photo

Al and Don decided to team up and go Jet Car exhibition racing together, beginning with the 1982 season.

“I had the desire to drive again, so I left my job at the track to help build and race the first Eastern Raider jet car with Al Hanna. We had bookings lined up for 1982 and we were as serious as serious gets in going exhibition racing.” But the Gods of Thunder had other ideas for this duo.

The initial jet car project was plagued with complications from the start. “We just had problem after problem from the get-go” Don remembers.

Just an endless series of setbacks, month after month that was all out of pocket cash at the time. “When I was down to my last quarter in my pocket - that was when I called it quits” remembers Roberts, “I used that last quarter for a phone

the friends he made along the way. He still calls Tommy Ivo from time to time and he sees Jack Doyle at New England Dragway during NHRA Hot Rod Reunions that bring Don and his fellow racers back to the track again for one more dose of nitromethane laced with tire smoke.

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An auto backup camera is a special kind of video camera that is manufactured specifically for use at the rear of a vehicle to assist with backing up. These cameras are also known as rear view cameras or reversing cameras. The driver on a dash-mounted monitor displays the image that the camera captures for viewing.

An auto backup camera is distinctly different than other types of cameras because the image is flipped horizontally so the output that is viewed is a mirror image of what is being captured. This is critical because the driver of the vehicle and the camera would face opposite directions and the cameras left would be the drivers right and vice versa. The mirrored image captured by the camera makes the orientation of the monitor’s display consistent with the image displayed by the vehicle’s mirrors.

An auto backup camera normally features a wide angle lens. While this type of lens lessens the cameras ability to capture distant objects, it allows it to view a horizontal line, completely

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An auto backup camera is perfect for use on vehicles such as motor homes or those pulling trailers. These cameras are also commonly used in an SUV that has decreased visibility because of blind spots that are larger than a typical car. Basically, they can be used when driving any vehicle to enhance security and safety. They easily detect children’s toys or other hazards that may be behind a vehicle. These types of hazards are not seen in a rear view mirror unless they are a fair distance away from the vehicle.

More and more automobile manufacturers are offering the auto backup camera as an optional factory accessory on most sport utility vehicles and standard passenger trucks. However, these packages are often expensive and many drivers choose to add this after-market accessory themselves. With the increase in popularity of in-dash GPS navigation systems and DVD players, many safety conscious drivers are taking advantage of

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An auto backup camera may prevent an accident that could result in injury and an increase in your insurance premiums. The technology is constantly improving, making it possible for manufacturers to offer these cameras at prices that the general public can afford. With a little bit of research, a backup camera can be purchased for about $100.00 -$300.00 depending on the system purchased. You shouldn’t have any difficulty finding a quality system, as there are numerous camera systems available through manufacturers which A Custom Car Stereo Center can provide and install in your vehicle.

With the availability of the auto backup camera, there is no reason to worry about what may be behind your vehicle. As soon as you put your car in reverse, the camera is activated, providing you with a clear picture of what’s behind you and putting your mind at ease to safely back up.

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