"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
This week’s Muddy Monday video features a late 70s Dodge Aspen sedan doing some mild offroading. That’s is right – a midsized, rear wheel drive Dodge sedan climbing its way down a rough dirt path that is riddled with pools of muddy water. Technically, I think that the car might be a Plymouth Volare sedan, […] More »
This week’s Flashback Friday video takes us back to the late 1990s, where we get to see a rare commercial for the Dodge Viper. The video details say that this commercial was for 1999, but based on the subject matter, I would guess that this minute long spot was made to help introduce the 2nd […] More »
This week’s Muddy Monday video features a super-modified Dodge Dakota playing in the slop at the Wolf Springs Mud Bog. There is no modification list available for this Dakota, but it clearly has substantial suspension work to get the truck way up into the air and to make plenty of room for these monster truck […] More »
This week’s Muddy Monday video comes to us from the Wolf Springs Mud Bog event back in October 2014, where a super modified 2nd gen Dodge Ram puts on a show for the crowd and cameras. We don’t know anything about this Ram and I’m not sure if it started off as a Ram 1500 […] More »
This week’s Flashback Friday video is a commercial for the 1990 Plymouth Laser featuring Canadian superstar Celine Dion. That’s right – the famed single helped to push the all-wheel drive, turbocharged Plymouth hatchback (and a handful of other models) in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and those commercials are as awesomely tacky as you […] More »
So far, we have brought you massive galleries from the 2015 LX Spring Festival showing the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger show cars in attendance and today, here is our gallery of the Dodge Magnum wagons lining the parking lots of Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine, California. Considering that the Magnum was in production far fewer […] More »
Yesterday we brought you a look at a couple hundred of the Dodge Challenger show cars on display at the 2015 LX Spring Festival and today, we bring you a look at about a hundred of the Dodge Charger show cars from the Verizon Amphitheater. There weren’t as many Dodge Chargers as there were Challengers […] More »