Charles Morris

I would describe myself as a life long "car guy" who has been blessed with a memory for details of times and events that seem to have escaped many of my contemporaries. I began reading car magazines and attending racing events in the early 1960's and feel fortunate to have grown up during the golden age of drag racing. From the mid 1960's until the present I have competed in various classes of drag racing with my own cars and served as crew on both an alcohol funny car and a Pro-Stock car. In the late 1980's I responded to a request for a favorite story put out by a car magazine and submitted my first article which spoke of memories from a drag strip on a summer night in 1966 which soon after led to an offer to become a regular contributing writer for the publication. Having found success writing of my passion for cars I decided that as the time neared for retirement from my "day job" I might try my hand at putting my memories together in the form of a book. This led to my first book with Car Tech, titled Total Performers. This was followed by Factory Lightweights and my current work in the Workbench series titled; How to rebuild big block Ford engines which covers the Lima, 351 Cleveland and FE series V-8's