BESWICK RETURNS TO YORK

Arnie "Farmer" Beswick is returning to York with his "Tameless Tiger" Pontiac GTO at the 7th Annual Musclecar Madness at the York Reunion on July 11-12.

Bewsick will be joined by drag racing legends Ken Montgomery, Sam Auxier, Jr., Larry Reyes, Arlen Vanke, Joe Jacono, Ed Miller, Bud Faubel, Bruce Larson, Wally Booth, Gordy Foust, Jere Stahl, "Miss Hurst Golden Shifter" Linda Vaughn, "The Voice of Drag Racing" Jon Lundberg, Tom Sneden, Ed Hedrick, Jack Werst, Herb McCandless, Ed Hedrick, and others.

Legendary race cars to be on display will be the famous "Old Reliable" Chevrolets of the late Dave Strickler, which will include the rolling chassis of his first 409  '61 Chevrolet Biscayne currently being rebuilt. Others are Arlen Vanke's "Tin Indian", Bud Faubel's '64 "Honker", the Jim & Alison Lee Top Fuel dragster, the "Tasmanian Devil II" AA/A '23T supercharged Roadster, Jerry Baltes's Top Fuel dragster, the "Hemi Hunter" Top Fuel dragster, along with many more muscle cars of the '60s and '70s.

The show is a benefit for the York County SPCA. A special memorabilia auction will be held on Saturday at 6 p.m. all proceeds going to the SPCA.  (DRO file photo) [5/14/2008]

SPORTSMAN RACER HEADED FOR EUROPEAN SUMMER VACATION

Tog of eurodragster.com tells the Agent that Karl Ellwein of the USA's East Coast Impala SS Racing Series is shipping his street/strip 1995 Chevy Impala SS to Europe. Karl plans to race in Sweden at the Midnight Sun Internationals at Pite Dragway and the Gold Town Summer Drag Race in Skelleftea in July with Anders Envall and Kent Edin, for whom he has built an engine, and will then accompany Anders to Santa Pod Raceway in the UK to contest Pro ET at the FIA European Finals in September. Karl hopes to promote his business Ellwein Engines, which he started with inspiration from the late Lennart Bergqvist of Florida's Autoshop Racing Engines, and intends to have fun along the way.

"A Sportsman racer touring Europe may sound eccentric, and maybe it is," says Karl. "But this is something I have wanted to do since first attending the European Finals as Santa Pod in 2004 where I supported Anders in Pro ET. At Santa Pod I met a few of the Pro ET racers and it was there that a goal was set in my mind to race my own car at Santa Pod one day.

"Now I finally have a booking with a shipping company to have my car in Gothenburg in Sweden some time at the end of June. I hope to promote my engine building company and have fun while doing it. How can you not have fun while drag racing in Sweden and England?" [5/14/2008]