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Mr. Greatwrench
Steve Hymon
October 19, 1992
As his cars blew by everybody else's, Dale Armstrong became drag racing's ultimate grease monkey
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October 19, 1992

Mr. Greatwrench

As his cars blew by everybody else's, Dale Armstrong became drag racing's ultimate grease monkey

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The man made the machine and the machine made the man. Twice more this season, once at the Summernationals in Englishtown, N.J., and then at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, when the conditions were wrong and neither man nor machine had any business going 300 mph, Bernstein and Armstrong lined their car up and did it again.

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