L-n-L Performance Development

NOTE:  My apologies for some of the article links being broken.  Virtually all of the automotive enthusiast magazines are now owned by the same company.  They have taken down the previous links (which were free to the public), and now you have to pay for a subscription to access those articles.

Here are some of the magazines in which I've been mentioned, and the two that featured my own cars.  Click on the cover to be taken to the magazine article.

September 2014 CarCraft Magazine.  CarCraft editor John McGann stayed with us for 3 days, while he was doing research and photography for this article.  We really had fun!

 The February 2010 issue of Popular HotRodding has an article on my home-built Falcon station wagon.  I was pleasantly shocked when I got my copy of the magazine, and found that my article took a full 6 pages!  I was hoping that I'd have at least 2 pages, and did not even dream it would be over 4 pages!  On the downside, I wasn't really ready for the article, and did not have the car running as well as I wanted - but the magazine wanted the car THEN, and I risked not getting an article at all if I waited.  Since the article was written, the car has ran 7.0's in the 1/8 mile, 11.teens at 121mph in the quarter mile in full street trim, on just pump gasoline.  I've also added a small nitrous system, which has not yet been fully utilized.  Using the nitrous conservatively, I've ran 10.52 two different times, with a best mph of 130.

 The February 2005 issue of High Performance Pontiac had a small feature on my 1967 Firebird.  I had just got the Firebird back on the road, after spending 3 years getting body work and paint done, and still had some cobwebs to blow out.  Within a year of this magazine coming out, I had the Firebird running a best of 11.27 @ 119.7mph, all motor, pump gas, and on DOT radials.  A few months later, I had to sell the car...

This magazine featured the 1975 Trans Am of my dear old friend Warren Ksiez.  I was originally supposed to have my Firebird in this article, but it was caught in the body shop and would not be finished in nearly enough time.  I suggested Warren's T/A to the magazine, and they accepted the idea!  I just have a brief mention in the "Built by" section, but this was my first REAL mention in a magazine :-)