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[Jairus]

Most men are still kids.
It's just that most of us learned how to act in public.

[Vay Jonynas]

Here are scans of three more of my Drag Cartoons magazines complete with the "Big Daddy" Roth T-shirt ads they contained:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The #16 was the first I bought as a kid. I was so captivated I immediately started sending away for the back issues!
 

[Vay Jonynas]

JimR, on 02 Oct 2007 - 7:47 PM, said:

Yep, ol' Pete had a major grudge against the NHRA (can't remember why). He'd always talk up the UDRA.

AND he was the builder of the magnificent Chicken Coupe AA/CC.
 

 

Here are some pictures of Pete Millar's Chicken Coupe:

 

 

 

 

 

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Jairus, on 02 Oct 2007 - 7:30 PM, said:

...it has been a long time since I spoke with Pete (He passed away back in '01 or so).

I talked to Pete Miller about a year before he passed hoping to get him to illustrate and contribute a page of cartoons to Model Cars Magazine. 

 

 

MG Brown, on 02 Oct 2007 - 6:53 PM, said:

Did you know you can get ALL of the issues of DRAG CARTOONS for less than the price of one vintage print edition on ePay?

Lookie here: Drag Cartoons on CD

 

 

Back in 2000 or so I was running ads in the Comics' Buyer's Guide looking for back issues of Drag Cartoons. Pete Millar was I guess at the time gathering up all his comic strips to put on the CD. So he gave me a call. He wanted to know whether I had doubles of certain issues because he was interested in buying them. I had some of those issues and we ended up speaking two or three times. Fortunately, I kept the written correspondence I received from Pete:

 

 

 

[JimR]

Anybody remember what the original engine was in the Chicken Coupe?

 

Never mind. Took another shot with Google and found an entry stating that is was a "small block Ford" running in D/Modified Fuel Coupe.

Next question: was that a UDRA class or a SoCal one?