Be Quick Or Be Dead · Detroit Racing Journal · 2026

Featured Cars

The machines of the crew: pre-war hot rods, second-gen Camaros, Mustangs and one eternally unfinished 340 Duster.

The Class of 2003: Be Quick Or Be Dead’s Featured Cars

The Class of 2003: Be Quick Or Be Dead’s Featured Cars

A 1937 Ford, a 1933 HighBoy, the Yellow Bullet Camaro and Jim Monson’s Mustang: four cars that mapped a scene.

The Classic Muscle Cars That Filled the Staging Lanes

The Classic Muscle Cars That Filled the Staging Lanes

GTO, Road Runner, Cobra Jet, LS6: the showroom cars that built drag racing’s middle class between 1964 and 1971, and what they are like to race now.

Why the Fox-Body Mustang Became the Everyman’s Strip Car

Why the Fox-Body Mustang Became the Everyman’s Strip Car

Light, cheap, simple and supported by thirty years of aftermarket: the math that put a 1979–1993 Ford in every staging lane in America.

Jimmy D’s 1971 340 Wedge Duster: The Eternal Project

Jimmy D’s 1971 340 Wedge Duster: The Eternal Project

Back from the shop — again. The story of the crew’s Mopar project car and why a 340 Duster was the thinking man’s weapon.