Occasionally we feature a story that revolves around a person who, although very talented, is not a nationally known figure. Thus, we think it's appropriate to give our readers a capsule biography ...

YardstickThere is an old adage that you don't race dynos and flow benches. Manufacturers of test equipment use different standards and test procedures that will affect the results. This brings me to ...

American automotive performance in the 1950s was a simple recipe. If you wanted to go faster, you didn't optimize what you had; you just added more to it. More displacement, more iron, more horsepower ...