Top Eliminator #26

Young Marv's hot rod is destroyed in a high-speed crash, but fortune smiles when his father trades his sensible family sedan for a used Chevrolet—the same model that belongs to Buzz Carlson, an Air Force pilot who's moved on to faster machines. What Marv doesn't know is that Buzz's car has a secret history of winning at the drag strip, and when Marv takes it to the local track, he discovers the potential hidden under its plain exterior. As he tinkers with the engine and races against increasingly tough competition, Marv learns that sometimes the best machines are the ones nobody expects.

A young mechanic and his dad's partner soup up a Ford Bronco with a bigger engine and dual carburetors, turning the family's practical ranch vehicle into a surprisingly nimble dragstrip competitor. When Barney takes the modified Bronco to the dig yard to settle some scores with rival drivers, he discovers that raw power isn't always the answer—and his father's unexpected new ride might just teach him a humbling lesson about staying hungry.

At Bonneville Salt Flats, Scot Jackson blacks out behind the wheel of his twin-Dodge-powered altered during a record-breaking run, and mysteriously can't remember a thing—but the car checks out perfectly. When his crew, the Rodmasters, suspects sabotage by their chief competitor Sheik Ben Ali, they discover the rival driver possesses a hypnotic gem capable of bending minds to his will, leaving Scot and his friends scrambling to stop Ben Ali before the final race.