Wagon and drag license

The Mercedes packs a twin-turbocharged 4. Power routes to all four wheels through a nine-speed gearbox with launch control. The Jaguar uses a supercharged 5. The sedan has an all-wheel drive and an eight-speed transmission that lacks launch control. The first test was a drag race.

While the Jaguar was first off the starting line, the Mercedes, which is nearly pounds kilograms heavier, quickly closed the gap and began pulling away before finishing first, though not by much.

The Mercedes completed the quarter-mile race in This is probably about the point where Dustin fell in love with building engines, and it started him on a path that, to his own credit, has been pretty successful.

Driving his Ranch wagon back and forth to Simi Valley every day when gas was just over a buck a gallon, he decided to build a little bit of a hotter motor.

If you ask Dustin, he credits working with people like Maropulos that gave him the confidence and skills to build race engines, and Lee knew that it was something he was destined to do. He feels that he puts his best into an engine and that each racer counts on the engine to work and to be successful.

Dustin began to do a bit of bracket racing with his wagon, and despite the wins and losses, he never got discouraged. He continued to race the wagon, and with the hotter engine his long trips to work were getting tougher on the wallet, so an import became the commuter car while the wagon was reserved for cruising, and bracket racing, of course.

What started life as a pretty cool cruiser still looks a little bit like one on the inside. But this Ranch Wagon is nothing but business at the race track. We asked what the condition of the wagon was when he got it, and he described it as red, cream and rough, complete with genuine patina. In he decided to paint it silver and had the interior reupholstered. It was becoming a better looking cruiser, but if there was ever a sleeper wagon it was this Ranch Wagon. Just a mild small block, according to Dustin.

With horsepower, though. With a few performance parts, flat top pistons and some massaging, he was getting ponies at the crank at rpm. This low budget wagon is pretty impressive, despite the nonchalant way that Lee describes it. Some people are still laughing when they first see it, he tells us, but then when he begins winning races the laughing sometimes turns to intimidation.

Who wants to line up with a tank like this Ranch Wagon and see nothing but tail lights? His competitors are familiar with the tail lights, much to their chagrin. In while he was racing, keep in mind that Lee was running in High School Class because he was still only 18 years old.

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