Steve Dillman is sporting a banner at this weekend's NHRA U.S. Nationals for Indiana Rain, the new album by Sandy Kastel, on the side of his gorgeous black Super Gas '67 Chevy II. Kastel will also be singing the national anthem on Monday during the pre-race ceremony.

“Sandy's husband, Harold Stout, and I have been friends since we were about 18 years old,” said Dillman. “Sandy came out with her new album and wanted to know if I'd be interested in helping them promote it. It's really a win-win situation for us both; I get to race, and they can promote their album.”

Dillman has been racing for more than a few years, and he said he was at the first race here at Indy.

Steve Dillman is sporting a banner at this weekend's NHRA U.S. Nationals for Indiana Rain, the new album by Sandy Kastel, on the side of his gorgeous black Super Gas '67 Chevy II. Kastel will also be singing the national anthem on Monday during the pre-race ceremony.

“Sandy's husband, Harold Stout, and I have been friends since we were about 18 years old,” said Dillman. “Sandy came out with her new album and wanted to know if I'd be interested in helping them promote it. It's really a win-win situation for us both; I get to race, and they can promote their album.”

Dillman has been racing for more than a few years, and he said he was at the first race here at Indy.

“It was 1961,” recalled Dillman. “I raced here when we used flags and ran four abreast, long before Charlotte. Since then, I've run about all the sportsman classes except Comp.”

Dillman, who has a couple of wins at the divisional level and runner-upped at the NHRA Northern SPORTSnationals in Columbus in 2006 in Super Street, counts winning the Moroso Five Day Bracket Championships in 2000 as the greatest accomplishment of his racing career so far.

Even without the image of Sandy Kastel on the side of his car, it's a beautiful piece to see in person, and it has sentimental value, too: it belonged to his brother who passed away in 1999, and Dillman sold his Super Comp dragster to purchase it after it had changed hands a couple of times. The shiny black little Nova is powered by a brand new 421-cid motor built by Steve Schmidt.

Racing is very much a family affair for Dillman, and his son, Ryan, was also running in Super Gas this weekend.

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