After a major heart attack put his bucket list in focus, Kevtn Dunn decided a drag-and-drive was next in line. This 1996 Chevrolet S-10 pick-up would get the job done, in more ways than one.

“Drag-and-drive put the spark back in drag racing for me. I like challenges, and I can see the challenge and fun in it.”

“With the space we have now (at Moore Race Chassis), advancing the business is the top of our priority list. The opportunity is too great to pass up.”

“My oldest son Michael McMahon III wanted to do a drag-and-drive. And I have too. And he loves baseball, so what better one to do than Sick Summer that goes past the Field of Dreams!”

68 cars and trucks signed up, and a chance of rain hung overhead on sign up day, but the weather would look reasonably sunny. But as participants left to head to the next destination, reports of a tornado were getting passed around. Thankfully, no participants had issues and made the trek safely.

“The people, the drives, and the adventure to take a car you built and try to survive a week with the best people and friends - there's nothing better.”

“I could feel in the car on that run, it was a drastic change. It was one of the best feelings of my life.”

In January this year, Mike Finnegan released a video on his YouTube channel, Finnegan’s Garage, on the build of a LS-based 400 cubic inch engine from ACE Racing Engines for big power numbers and a ‘mystery project car.’

“I got hooked on drag-and-drives. It's all about driving your stuff. Cars are meant to be used, not idle.”

“The biggest challenge (with a drag-and-drive) is accepting the reality that you may not do as good as you wanted to, and refraining from making stupid tune up decisions so you can make a clean pass and get on the road.”

“We can’t wait to be hanging with and meeting new people and friends again at our next drag-and-drive. Car and hot rod people, I think there’s no better crowd.”

“The drives are amazing, the people are awesome, every hotel ends up being a car show, and the new tracks are really my favorite part.”

“The original appeal (of a drag-and-drive) was really just the challenge, and it still is no question. But after competing in two now, I really just love the people and friendships you make along the way. We also get to stop at some pretty cool places that I otherwise probably would've never visited.”

The LT1 small block burned a piston, but Kesler Soucie looks at the glass half-full. “I decided to change over to a more serious semi-forged 6.0-liter LS platform. I'm excited to run quicker and faster this year, but I have a lot of work left to get the car ready.”

Recently, a pair of stick shift performances, one by a drag-and-drive competitor, as well as a Cadillac nearing the 6-second zone, got our attention from a test session in Michigan.

Back in California after just north of 6,600 miles on their Sick Week 2024 trip, Danny Grubaugh messaged us with a headline: “The Gucci wagon will be getting some updates before its next drag-and-drive, and LS Fest West is on our radar.”

“Right as Brad gets to us in the lanes, we hear that we are on a 2 minute clock, so I hurried up as much as I could to move the clamp and tighten it up. I was a bit ginger with it; I knew if I broke it, I wouldn’t have time to get to the pit and get another one.”

“I’ve never run a seven-second pass, and if I can get one, I’ll leave a happy man.” Considering Kyle Williams finished second in the small tire class at the 2023 Miles of Mayhem event, TX2K would give him a solid chance for that 7-second blast.

Hoping the 5.3-liter LS-based combination had one more solid run in it, Rich Woodward spooled up the twin-turbo Mustang and rocketed off the starting line. But by the time he reached the finish line, things had changed; a lot!

“I think we are done on 235s. We did what we wanted; we won twice in Rowdy Radial in the same year.”