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9.8-Liter 800 HP Chevrolet Nova Is a Drag Racing Car Washed Up on the Street 25 May 2021, 18:45 UTC ·
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These days, we re told a car should be as predictable as possible, it should only do what we re telling it to and not have any ideas of its own. Cars are soulless machines that don t live and breathe. Well, in that case, this 800 hp 9.8-liter V8 Chevrolet Nova is not a car. 11 photos
You might remember Owen, its owner (there was a 50-50 chance I would write Owner, its owen but I m glad I got it right). He s the guy with a 600+ hp K-swapped Toyota MR2 with no brake upgrades. Or a 750 hp Ford Escort Mk.1 with a few lifting weights fitted at the back to enhance traction. On the other hand, he just bought a Mark 7 Golf R - that s the kind of behavior that might make someone think he s bipolar.
The Ghosts of Comanche Crossing
In 1981 three Black teenagers drowned while in law enforcement custody during a Juneteenth gathering at Lake Mexia. Four decades later, Texas’s proudest Emancipation Day celebration still hasn’t recovered.
Lake Mexia, seen from Booker T. Washington Park, known locally as Comanche Crossing, on April 21, 2021.
Photograph by Michael Starghill
Every Juneteenth, as soon as Pamela Baker got to Booker T. Washington Park, she’d race to the merry-go-round, squeeze through the swarm of shrieking kids, grab one of the shiny rails, and hold on tight. After a few minutes, she would jump off and dart up the steps of the nearby dance hall to survey the throngs below. She and her brother Carl would weave through the crowd, looking for cousins from Dallas and Houston they hadn’t seen since the previous year. Eventually, her whole family would congregate under an oak tree their ancestors had claimed as a gathering place a century before, in the years after