“BAD BUG! " Joe Vittone & Dean Lowry"s " EMPI Inch Pincher"

Limited-Edition Print of 350 (13x19) prints 
 Signed and numbered by the Artist. 
  Although the magazines at the time, always captioned images of this car as "Everyone's favorite," in reality this was the "Most-Hated" car in Drag Racing at the time.  
 This little bug was hated for two reasons... In 1967, Hot Rodders didn't even consider a Volkswagen bug to car at all, So it was hated was because it was a Volkswagen. The second reason for this hatred was, no one could beat the "Bad" little bug! 
 As a kid, I couldn't have realized how lucky I was to grow up in the shadow of Riverside Raceway, and to be able to experience the myriad of Championship forms of auto racing that it displayed...I could hardly wait for January's "Motortrend 500" Parade to march through downtown, celebrating Nascar's first race of the year...My hometown of Riverside could always be proud of those days, and of coarse, our hometown hero will