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#5 AUTHORITY SONG (1984) John Mellencamp - Love this steering wheel thumping song along with the drum beats and wailing guitar licks. This song has a great melody along with defiant sing-along lyrics and a badass attitude. This song would be perfect for the OUTLAW RUN Movie soundtrack and the attitude alone makes this a great cruising song while driving along any highway. #6 MEXICAN RADIO (1982) Wall of Voodoo - This song might not sound like a cruising song to some, but it is tough to not start tapping your fingers on the steering wheel and shifter knob while you accelerate down any US dirt, or back road. This song has a great rhythm and beat to the music and is perfect for those dusty roadways from Maine to California. #7 GET OUT OF DREAMS, GET INTO MY CAR (1988) Billy Ocean - This song is also a great cruising song even if it is a little bit on the commercial side of the album. Could even be determined to be a bit crass to some, but when it comes to dropping the convertible top and slow cruising within the city limits under all of those street lights and neon lights this makes for a great cruising song with that someone special under your right arm.

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that they want and not the way the previous owner wanted that ride to appear and sound on the roadways and showcased at car venues. Some of the photos featured on this page show the classic rides I see

frequently at area car shows and cruise nights and some photos are from the very first time I ever laid eyes on them. The classic red pick up truck and the slick black hot rod are first time showcases but the yellow truck I see at area car shows

and cruise nights regularly. I own the black Chevy truck and use that vehicle to display my traffic safety billboard at car shows and cruise nights to remind kids and families to wear seatbelts and drive safely. Putting the cartoon character behind the wheel of a 1954 Chevy Convertible painted Chevy Orange just seems to work and gets a lot of attention at these venues all through the car show season. MOTORHEAD MAGAZINE is available at many of these car show and cruise night venues and the BOYS OF SUMMER can’t seem to get enough of the issues I pass out every single month. The magazine cover is flipped open to the pages inside before the reader is even five feet away form picking one up at the tailgate on my truck. More often than not, these same individuals come back for more copies of the issue because the one that they were reading when waling away from my truck were confiscated by someone else who came to the car show and cruise night with them. When the host car show and cruise night DJ announces again, and again on their loud speakers that I am on site with more copies of MOTORHEAD MAGAZINE and Coloring Books for the kids, the line builds and the spectators flock to my truck before the copies are all gone for that particular event. The BOYS OF SUMMER are a great

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Obviously there are a few rules that are going to apply, including that small detail about having an adult in the passenger’s seat at all times. In addition to that, participants must also complete a licensing and orientation program to familiarize them with the car, the track, and the program itself. Vehicles must be able to past the track’s technical inspection for safety and proper operation. Per NHRA RulesApproved vehicles must be registered, insured, street-legal vehicles with mufflers and street tires and limited to 10 seconds and slower. One important question, which came up quite frequently was, “How are these cars going to get around the pits?” With a little research, I found the answer on There’s really nostates other felling taking delivery of the NHRA website (www.NHRA.com), which that thelike Participant may only your first Mustang or Muscle when drive the vehicle from the staging lanes to the starting line,Car, on especially the track, and on the you’rebooth. in your early teenage years. Theadult first must time you return road as far as the time-slip The licensed supervising drive Yessaian the vehicle at allEdother times.lay eyes on that aggressive stance, the first smell of the leather interior, the first feeling of that rumble that happens after your first turn of the key. Every one of us can recall what seemed like the greatest day of our life when we got behind the wheel of our very own piece of American History. For Jason Pjojian of Cranston RI, that amazing sense of ownership and pride came to reality this past summer when he got his hands on his SVT COBRA. As far as actual clothing andimmaculate safety gear,1997 the basics for drag racing and normal bunch car guys are always on site any given at any vehicle of operation arewho required. Seat belts are at mandatory forday, bothand drivers andgiven car related show venue withisNo their ownowner rides, andsandals ready to Jason the third the car, but bothon of display the first supervising adults,and as are helmets. shorts, no tankofshiny tops, no either for other show vehicle owners and theridiculously hundreds,obsessed if not thousands of it two owners were with keeping the the driver or supervising adult. spectators and their families that attend these great car and truck functions clean, garaged, and well maintained. As of this article and car only has 34,000 miles doesn’t Aftergatherings. reviewing the rules andthe researching some racing andand forums and seem socialto scratch, fingerprint anywhere media, the program looked tohave havea asingle lot ofchip, interest. I wasor curious to see exactly Chances very goodbethat ifit.you arecredits currently reading this appearance article, yougreat too, Jason the England car’s current and how manyare races would ononthe schedule at New Dragway, it was are a car and truck enthusiast, and appreciate the classic cars and trucks his father Bob Pjojian, who shared to see that they adopted the brilliant programshine with to some real enthusiasm. shown at many area car show cruise nightsecrets. eventsBob in this region week after manyand of his detailing is currently in week at nightly car shows search and onofweekends atMustang the annual car venues. which a new 2015 GT Convertible, New England Dragway willknow run the will be his fourth Mustang. So we that Jason has If you are showcasing and aattending weekly car shows and Street the following dates: great Junior role these model toProgram follow.andonannual cruise nights then you are probably Mayjust 3rdlike the rest of us BOYS OF SUMMER crowd and we welcome you onboard the ride. May 30th From the outside, the car appears to be mostly stock, June 20th with visual enhancements coming from only a handful Remember to buckle up and cruise safely be seeing at an area July 8th and I will of tasteful modifications. A Saleen S281you spoiler car show and cruise night replaces next spring. Have 5th’ apedestal great fallspoiler and winter September the factory and 18season inch from the staff of MOTORHEAD MAGAZINE. September 6thshine brilliantly at each corner. Steeda Pentar wheels

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ED YESSAIAN As the years have gone by, I’ve seen quite a few of the New England Dragway Juniors grow up, right before my eyes. With the program now allowing kids as young as five years old, it’s been an amazing experience for me to see the children progress

through the ranks then onto full size cars. It has also been extremely rewarding for me to meet so many incredible families that reinforce good old fashioned family values through quality time together and a shared interest. With most of the kids in the Junior Dragster division, it is pretty safe to say that almost all of their parents are racers as well. This year for 2015, both Division A and B Champions come from a pretty extensive racing backgrounds, so it’s

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going to be awesome when I eventually see them in full sized cars! For now both of these young ladies still have some time left to enjoy their Junior Dragsters, but the way they are going, it’s going to be pretty intimidating to have to face one of these superstars… Kaylee Genualdo- Kaylee comes from a pretty big racing family that includes her mother Joy ripping up Street Eliminator in her Camaro Z28 and her Dad Artie who also campaigns a bow-tie in the form of a Monte Carlo SS. Her older sister Nicole has been seen terrorizing the boys in her Mitsubishi EVO, and her brother Kyle is having tremendous success in theJunior dragster A division, where he has finished TOP 10, almost every season. This is Kaylee’s 2nd season in the Junior Dragster B division and she had a very successful rookie year in 2014. With quite a few impressive first season runs, Kaylee even ran away with her first WALLY in her very first major event last year. For 2015 Kaylee had six Runner-up finishes and four victories, which gave her the 2015 Junior Dragster B Championship by a long shot. Chantel Gaboriault- Chantel has become New England Dragway’s version of America’s Sweetheart. Always extremely polite and well-mannered, you would never know what you’re in for once she puts on the

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Fright Night GTO, gets inside, buckles up and turns the ignition key.

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The police officers are watching as Etch The OUTLAW GTO is almost out of site “You guys are kidding me,” said, Etch. turns on his left directional, looks into his lone police vehicle in high view mirror and waves out the driver’s heads to the cruise night a few JIMside WEICHERDING This turns him around as pursuit, she Halloween. Of course, that’s it. Thisfrom is a the shoulder. miles away. Moments later, a fire truck but that officer is pushing his car very directs his eyes at a nearby headstone. Halloween theme cruise night. Now it The police officers watch as the OUTLAW side window. and rescue vehicle are approaching him Spencer stares the name date hot makes Spencer fires up his newly restored GTO hard in an attempt toatcatch theand fleeing accelerates ahead ofsense!” them at a higher very quickly on theGTO opposite side of on the grave stone and can’t believe his and backs it out of his driveway on his rodder behind the wheel of that classic rate of speed. thenight gassince pedal and the theGTO roadway. He has to pull the GTO off eyes. SPENCER TUNNEY IS DEAD! 2012 wayEtch to his mats first cruise starting Spencer rolls the GTO into the entrance to the side of the road to avoid being car. his GTO restoration project a year position. to the cruise night and rolls downmuscle his launches from its over stopped struck by the big trucks. Both vehicles ago.The front tires lift off the ground He pushes the woman away from him window, “Nicecar,” costume man. You almost “We can’t catch this guy in that said to the speed by as Spencer waves to the drivers and GTO, fires up and scared the crap out of me with that get Suddenly, a jumps front into tire his blows out itand the one of the police officers, radio, sound ofon the and and passengers inside. tears out of the cruise night like his life up!” Theover GTO the slowly maneuvers its way It’s aechoing beautiful fall evening thisdual Satur-exhaust police vehicle slams hard to the blacktop to the other police officers giving depended on it. around the gravechase stone markers and daythen night before Halloween, moreA massive screaming rearand tires. “Must be a house fire back there stone crosses. thancloud likely one of the last cruise nights on the right side. The car nose digs into around him.I didn’t of white smoke engulfs the police see.” until spring of next year, so he wants to The GTO soars past the entrance knockthe pavement and the police car starts asof they all runweathto their parked takeofficers advantage this gorgeous ing a man to the ground smoking the Finally, Spencer finds an open spot to to summersault through the air sideways, goingcan toosee fast park in that high GTO and turns off the Forty-five later,isSpencer er and cruisevehicles to the localwaving car show their event hands police in minutes“He tread out of the rear tires heading back his restored the the classic cars andperformance trucks, along with justfront over the linefaces from his home in head over heal,home and bursts into flames towards in the opposite direction. car. Heanother looks around and begins musclemuscle car,” said ofstate their and coughing hot rods and muscle cars parked on the Rhode Island. The GTO is traveling at a high rate of dark to observe things happening around mid air with an exploding fireball and pursuing police in response to the whole way. field at the end of the long street ahead.officer, him at this weird Halloween cruise night. speed for quite some time until it arrives smoke. first officer’s The sky is turning darker now as thestatement. upon a location surrounded by police The immaculate muscle car gets a lot of sun starts to set behind the hills of this stares and waves fromGTO otheris drivers and “Wow! These people must have paid pro- cars, fire trucks and a rescue vehicle with The OUTLAW screaming down the country setting. their lights now therearview darkness passengers on the back roads heading fessional’s putsaid on their theysees Etch this all flashing happen in in his “We need to break this chase to off,” themake-up, the three cars leave of the evening. intohighway the state ofwhile Connecticut. Treespolice are look horrible and scary as hell!” mirror and mats the gas pedal. theirwith positions on theleaves side of theSpencer road with drives his highest GTO closerranking to where officer, on the scene. covered different colored all the vehicles are parked and is andsirens the windblaring blows them over the lights Spencer stops the GTO and watches as Spencer exits the GTO and leans up andalloverhead flashing. stunned by what else he sees uprooted roadway swirling around like mini-twistrescue workers bring the lifeless body against his ride toof check out the scene. “No! I can catch him,” replied, one the Tony stands by his parked classic car, in the ground around all the parked ers. The GTO just travels along the back of a man covered with a white sheet out other police officers.“Hey, this is pretty realistic...” the man smiles head sideshow to side. cars and trucks. There are grave roads causingand evenshakes more of his the fallen of the dark placing it on a stretcher and and markers inbetween all the leaves whip around the vehicleleaves and thestones roll it into the back of the rescue vehicle. Hetowaves as everyone scene dressed like a Zombie just ignores him vehicles. landing on the roadside. The GTO hits a Everything is moving in slow motion. He and stumbles past,in tripping “No you can’t,” said another officer, one into an old and then enters his own vehicle. patch of leaves and Spencer has to let off turns his head in one direction and then Rat Rod head first. ofcruise the pursuing police vehicles. the gas, apply the brakes with both feet “What the hell? This night is being in another direction and then he sees it. andTony cut thestarts steering wheel hard to avoid in a cemetery?” Spencer can hardly his vehicle and tries held to catch up “What the hell?” Another costumed dead hitting anything. 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3 big wins in rental cars, all three while on vacation at different tracks. In 2014 he won an Import race, with a rental, at Music City Raceway in Tennessee. Later that year he also won TRUE STREET at the NMRA event in Bradenton, Florida with a rented 6 cylinder Mustang. In 2015 he won the same NMRA event with another rental, this time a 2015 Mustang that ran dead on his dial, 15.00 on a

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At his home tracks of Lebanon Valley and New England Dragway, Dan also had a tremendous amount of success in 2015. He won Street Eliminator Championships at both tracks for 2015 and was also in the top 5 for ET PRO. During the Night of Fire show he claimed a WALLY in the Top 8 Race, and was equally successful during TASCA’s Ford Fest, winning both the Street Ford and Quick Ford classes. During a TASCA sponsored “King of the Hill”, Dan grabbed a victory on the evening of July 24th, 2015. Prior to that Dan had won the first ever (and only one ever)-ED’Bachelor Party Shootout for Motorhead’s Ed Yessaian. As you read through his seemingly endless list of accomplishments and victories, it’s just amazing what a gracious winner he truly is. Dan credits his love for the sport, his home tracks, and his racing family for making him who he is today.

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are not allowed. The driver and passenger are allowed to work on the car at any time during the event. Drag Week started on Sept 14th at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, IL. The first day some pretty awesome numbers were laid down from some of the cars in the Unlimited Class. Jeff Lutz’s Pro-Mod Camaro ran a 6.005 at 251.95 mph on the very first day of completion setting the bar really high in the unlimited class. Tom Bailey ran a strong second with a 7.272 at 217.95. Pretty strong performances for the first day of competition. Larry Larson who purposely

fuel pump failure and was out of the competition. Most of you might know, not only do you have to run fast at the drag strip, but you have to travel several hundred miles between tracks in order to win. The first day of competition knocked out about 39 cars, which either broke on the way to the next track or had some mechanical failure

with a 5 day average of 6.78 at 219.63 mph. Goldstone’s Javelin came in 2nd at 6.95 at 208.04. As you can see the competition is pretty close. I was amazed that 10 cars this year ran sub 8 second

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ART by ETCH • Written by Jim Weicherding What do you think of when you hear, or read the word, “Art”? Do you think of cool cartoons and illustrations of classic cars and trucks? Maybe it was a poster you once saw with a bright orange GTO Judge like I saw the other day displayed on the wall at a meeting with a performance parts distributor about sponsoring my 1969 “OUTLAW” GTO Project Build and OUTLAW RUN book signing car show and drag racing tour next year across America. Art comes in all shapes and sizes and is everywhere you turn in the world today. There isn’t one thing created, produced, manufactured or displayed that didn’t come from someone’s imagination and put to paper. Well,

and participants. Car show promoter’s are looking for items and awards that are unique and attractive that can actually feature images of classic cars and trucks along with their venue logo and location.

GTO owners and GTOAA Members across New England are ordering their own showcase mirrors to put on display with their own vehicles at car shows and cruise nights that displays their GTO image, year and vehicle information. Very attractive show item and makes a great conversation piece with car and truck enthusiasts everywhere. I personally enjoy creating these great GTO featured custom etched showcase and wall décor mirrors because I am a huge GTO fan and enthusiast. I own GTO’s. I drive GTO’s. So do my customers. Some of the nicest car people I have ever met are GTO owner’s. Just because I reside in Rhode Island doesn’t mean my custom etched showcase GTO mirrors are just sold to area GTO owner’s. I receive orders from GTO and muscle car owner’s all across the country as well. Every single custom etched GTO mirror is sent via UPS and can be delivered anywhere within the continental USA. Whether it is a gift item, or for personal use, these custom etched mirrors are extremely popular with GTO and muscle car

maybe in regards to the caveman that is not absolutely true. They drew on cave walls, not on paper. Unless it was drawn on a tree. That was close enough to paper for any caveman artist in my book. I have never seen a photo with a caveman drawing that featured a GTO as a means of transportation. It was usually a mammoth, or a dinosaur depicted as a means of transportation. I prefer a GTO! A unique art form that once was a very popular artistic style of impression was custom glass and mirrors back in the 30’s, 40’s and early 50’s but has since died out due to technology and artists fearful of making mistakes with their artwork and lettering. What was once seen practically everywhere on storefront windows and inside diners, restaurants and businesses has been replaced by hand painted and vinyl impressions. Even hand painted artwork and lettering is rapidly being replaced by vinyl technology and quick buck applications. Nobody wants to wait for anything anymore. They want it yesterday, not in 2 weeks. I, on the other hand, still believe in creating quality handcrafted art and décor products for my customers. I create one-of-a-kind custom etched mirrors and glass for my customers. Mostly GTO owners along with classic car and truck owners. These car and truck enthusiasts don’t mind waiting two weeks for quality craftsmanship featuring their vehicles that they use as display show pieces at car shows and cruise nights. When the car show season ends these beautiful handcrafted etched mirrors are perfect for displaying on walls in their homes, garages and businesses. They are great art décor accents that feature their GTO, muscle cars and hot rods. These custom etched show mirrors are quickly becoming a wonderful gift item for family and friends who own GTO’s and classic cars for birthday’s and the holiday season. You can’t walk into a retail store and get exactly what you want etched on glass and mirrors for gifts, or for yourself. You need to go to an artist, or a craftsman for custom wall décor and show mirrors and those individuals are far and few in between. Another increasingly popular item featuring my custom etched mirrors are award mirrors given to car show winners and best of show winners that feature the car show name and promoter along with a specific vehicle for that event. Trophies are nice, but my custom etched showcase mirrors are really gaining popularity with car show hosts

enthusiasts. I can even create mirror awards for GTOAA Car Show Events and venues nationwide. I recently created a beautiful handcrafted etched mirror for a car club member that had passed away as a Memorial Mirror that is displayed on their car club’s meeting hall wall. These mirrors can be personalized and feature club logos, names, dates and images of any GTO ever manufactured by Pontiac. Is your GTO club planning a car show, cruise night or event? Do you have weekly car shows and cruise nights in your area? These custom etched mirrors would be a great addition to any venue involving a GTO club and car show. Does your GTO club have a charity cause and would like a new fundraising item that can be raffled off to help raise money for your target charitable organization? These mirrors would be a perfect fundraising item for any charity you care about and support. Whether it is a custom etched GTO mirror for yourself, a gift, an award, a memorial or for a fundraising item to help a great cause and charity, these one-of-a-kind, handcrafted pieces of art are tough to beat when it comes to original showcase display items for car shows or for display on a wall in your home, garage and business. Anyone interested in my GTO Artwork etched on mirrors can contact me via my e-mail jwpisces14@aol.com. I will be glad to create and supply you with whatever you need featuring images of the Pontiac GTO for whatever reason you may have for ordering one.

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