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FOR THE RECORD… Let’s start from the beginning…I started building race cars in 1958. Most of them were stock cars and raced at Seekonk Speedway, (Action Track of the East.) YEARS I was 14 years old and building competitive cars that were outstanding winners. Put in roll bars and crash bars, built headers and fabricated […]

1969! UNBELIEVABLE Year!There is a year or sometimes years in someone’s life that is or are so special or so extra ordinary; the year: you get married, your children are born, your first love, your first car. Other than the year I married and the birth years of my children. 1969! was the year for […]

Welcome to the Jungle… In the sixties, drag racing was mostly “show” with some “go.” There were a lot of cars competing on the drag circuit up and down the East Coast. Some of them were a little more colorful than others. One of the most colorful duo on the funny car circuit was James […]

Bob Tasca Senior Tasca Ford, anyone who races a Ford or owns a Ford Mustang should be aware of him. Way back in the 60’s, He was an NHRA innovator and prominent Ford dealer and he started a race program out of his dealership (Tasca Ford) in East Providence, Rhode Island. It all started in […]

‘Fast And Furious’ Every so often someone comes along and does something in a sport or whatever, that makes a radical difference. This person was the original ‘Fast And Furious’. His name was Frank A. Federici, the owner of the funny car called “The Shark”, the first Corvette funny car! He also was the first driver to do […]

There’s a year or years in some one’s life that is special or extra ordinary, such as, the year you get married, the year your children are born, your first love, your first car. Other than the year I married and the birth years of my children and grandchildren. 1969! was the year for me – […]