Long regarded as the pioneer of the modern day ezine, Cole Coonce has released his latest book titled Top Fuel Wormhole, Volume 1 of the Cole Coonce Drag Strip Reader.

Focusing on the humanity and hardware associated with nitro-burning dragsters, fuel-felching Funny Cars and ill-advised Land Speed Record attempts, Top Fuel Wormhole is a collection of incendiary drag strip journalism written on a portable, AAA battery-powered AlphaSmart 3000 during the author’s days as a cub reporter at Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, Full Throttle News, LA CityBeat, Drag Racing Online and Nitronic Research, in the years between career stints as the guitar player in Braindead Soundmachine and later as Carol Merrill’s fluffer in Studio City, California. Its 256 pages of literary ack-ack includes “Viva La Nitro!,” “The Epic Saga Of The Surfers” “Bury My Heart At Edwards Air Force Base,” “Death On A Sunday Afternoon & The Whine Of Blowers Over The Pacoima Arroyo” and “Who’s Afraid of Arley Langlo?”

Copies can be found online at amazon.com and lulu.com . The price is just over $20.
 

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