Dragstrip Hotrodders [Drag-Strip Hotrodders] #12
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA new serial titled "Win Hungry!" introduces Ken King, a drag racer who competes in a match race against another driver in a blue vehicle at a drag strip. Ken experiences engine trouble during the race, hearing knocking sounds and feeling vibration in his car, but manages to secure financing from a man named Gerard to have the vehicle repaired. After the race, Ken visits his friend Jerry at a rooming house, where Jerry's landlord and others warn Ken about his reckless driving before the story continues on the next page.
Tim Calkins is struggling to figure out why he keeps losing races to the rival driver Serles, despite having what he thinks is superior equipment. When his friend Shanski spots a potential solution—a G-meter that measures acceleration forces—Calkins decides to master this new tool to finally outrun his competition. Watch as he puts the device to the test on the strip and discovers what's been holding him back all along.
A 1965 Plymouth Belvedere tells its own story of mechanical misfortune—cursed as a lemon from the assembly line, it bounces from owner to owner until a determined young mechanic decides it's worth saving rather than scrapping. When patient care and proper repairs finally unlock the car's true potential, both machine and driver discover that a so-called "clunker" just needed someone to believe in it.
Ken King is a motorcycle racer learning the craft under the tutelage of Jerry Gerard, the sport's finest rider—but when Ken makes an aggressive pass during a crucial race, Jerry crashes hard, and the crowd turns on Ken with fury. Desperate to clear his name after his mentor's near-fatal accident, Ken discovers the truth: a mechanical failure, not recklessness, caused the wreck. Yet before Jerry can set the record straight on a public broadcast, tragedy strikes again, leaving Ken to search for the written proof of his innocence in a race against time and suspicion.
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