The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
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Down & Dirty Drag Racing – Gettin’ It Done Dirty
L-R: Martin Blaylock, Kary Blaylock, Little Dave Herndon, Josh, Elisa, Just Joe ing Team was ready with fresh blood, fresh oil, and a fresh perspective - ready to rock and roll down the quarter mile of chaos and speed.
Dirty Drag Racing Team and Pandemonium Performance would love to, first thing, show some love to all our special advocates, backers, and promoters out there. Your support means a great deal to all of us involved. own and
Little Dave Herndon: Every team needs a heartbeat to keep the energy circulating, and Down and Dirty has a strong one in main pilot, David Herndon. Little Dave raced with Down and Dirty Drag Racing out of Easy Eddie’s Motorcycle Shop in Huntersville, NC. Growth and good times were going down at the strip, and we all know how this life can go - sometimes, just the moment the plan-once-dreamed starts to finally take shape in the present, an instant in time and choices of others create a different journey than what was planned, and even though the heartbeat skips for a minute, it is just gathering strength for round two, a new path. Little Dave was involved in a horrific accident caused by a texting driver; this tragedy left him in pretty bad shape for quite a while but most certainly not devoid of heart nor spirit. After a three-year recuperation, the heartbeat was back to thumpin’ strong, and the two-wheeled shenanigans once again commenced. Agreeing to return to the strip, Down and Dirty Drag Racing partnered with Pandemonium Performance Custom Cycles. Tired of all the speeding-tickets-as-trophies, the newly revamped drag team took a good dose of pure pandemonium from the street to the strip. It was not long and, your Down and Dirty Drag Rac-
Pandemonium Performance: Steeped in speed, Kary Blaylock and his crew at Pandemonium Performance churn out powerhouse machines on a weekly basis for clients who like to get to the good times quick and in a hurry like. With more than fifteen years’ experience behind the wrenches and specialty tools, Kary brings a certain wise spice to the cycle lift. His hand-selected and personallytrained crew has been educated and cultured within the strictest Harley-Davidson-specific standards and nothing less will fly. With the combined thrust of wisdom through experience, cutting-edge technology, and tried-and-true secrets wielded to crank out larger than life power, the collective knowledge at Pandemonium Performance brings the fuel straight to the fire. Collaborating with Kary Blaylock and the Pandemonium Performance crew, this reincarnation of the Down and Dirty Drag team, much like drag racing itself, was born on America’s local backroads; there is big world power with the hometown feel, and Little Dave and company pack that trailer with love for home and family every trip to the strip – their spirits grateful for life, each other, and the sweetness of speed. After much abstracting, the team formulated and fabricated three top-notch performers; three absolute, shoot-em-up, cowboy outlaws have been built to give the competition a little something to contend with:
