Teenage Hotrodders #19

Go-Go Gamble is a hotrod driver who knows only one way to race: at full throttle, consequences be damned. After a thrilling victory where he coasts across the finish line on a dead engine, his pit crew chief Pete Riser warns him that his reckless driving is destroying the car—but Go-Go refuses to change his style, convinced he can only drive flat out. When a newly rebuilt GT racer hits the track for a grueling 200-mile race, Go-Go's refusal to take it easy during the break-in period sets him on a collision course with disaster.

Jigger Leeds' pride and joy—a chromed-out hotrod loaded with custom goodies—becomes a twisted heap of metal when a blown tire sends him skidding off the road, and he's left wondering if the wreck is even worth anything. When someone suggests the damaged car might have a shot in the local demolition derby, Jigger sees a chance to turn disaster into a $500 prize—if he can survive the chaos of cars ramming each other at full throttle. What starts as a desperate gamble becomes an education in what really matters when you're behind the wheel.

When a hot-rodder in a tiger-striped car challenges what looks like a docile Chevelle on the highway, he's in for a shock—that "pussycat" is packing 375 horses and can hit speeds well over 120 mph. "The Muscle Cars" takes you on a high-octane tour of the new breed of American performance machines that are transforming the drag strip and the open road in 1966, from the Buick Skylark and Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 to the legendary Pontiac GTO and Plymouth Belvedere 426-S.

Scot Jackson's gasser dominates its class at the drag strip, but when it's time to face off against the smooth-talking Al Conrad and his modified roadster in the eliminator bracket, something doesn't add up—Conrad's car runs impossibly fast, suggesting he's been sandbagging his times to stay in an easier bracket. As Scot and his friends investigate the suspicious racing tactics, tensions escalate toward a explosive confrontation in the pit area.