CKIW iRADIO 76 Shows

We were invited to see this cozy car show a few years ago and told the promoter for the event to remind us when the next one will be scheduled. Reminded we were and today our guest is David Line who is the show-runner for the 4th Annual Memorial Baptist Car Show in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Topics discussed today include: the history of this event, watch those burnouts, rain or shine event, how...

Our season begins in a few short weeks, so we decided to bring members of staff to go see some real heavy duty wrassling to have a fun night out. We are going to "Clash to the Future" this Saturday and invited the promoter of Clash Wrestling Jeremy Jones and the voice of Clash Wrestling "The Professor" Matthew Priest to be on with us. On today's show, topics include: how Clash Wrestling started, s...

CKiW iRADIO 76 has been following the Milan Dragway story for a long time now. It's a story that should be a mini-series and it would be a blockbuster. We like the owners of Milan and we make sure to have them on whenever we can so we can provide to you all kinds of facts about Milan Dragway right from the source. It's the CK way. Our guests today are the hard working Perry and Pam Merlo from the...

Welcome to the Detroit sports show not bought and paid for so they can tell you like it is! On the show today, the guys talk about: yay Blash is gone, those doggone Leafs, see ya Babcack, names for the new coach for the Wings, swindle Holland please, Bert for a blue liner, Wings rookies, Tigers in LA, yes Beau, $77 mil for what, Miggy's bat speed, go Tork, Tigers in the field, 2b in need, no stupi...

We covered his group at the Nostalgia Nationals at Milan Dragway a bit back and we had so much fun with them, we wanted to get him booked on our show. Our guest tonight is Rich Berlisk- President of the Nostalgia Super Stock Inc.. Topics covered on the show today include: that weather in WI, tracks in WI, the history for NSS, where are those female drivers, 33 years of being a club, where they are...

We have tonight one of our favorite returning guests,  Dallas Brown who is the President of the American Hot Rod Association. Topics discussed on tonight's show include: How 2022 is going for the AHRA, how to get some fine AHRA swag, how to buy stock in AHRA, EV racing in AHRA, NEDRA, a Slant 6 race, Inliner Nationals, outside of the box thinking for AHRA races, getting fun back into drag racing,...

Grab a ginger ale and pull up a chair as two of our all time favorite guests Chip Greene and Chuck Raymo from the Geriatric Race Team is back with us and we could not be happier. These two shining examples for good will ambassadors for drag racing talked about topics including: a soft opening at Milan proposal, looking through the gate at Milan on a Sunday, the Pro/Speed Shop at Milan, concrete po...

It only takes a minute to recognize that voice of the Sloan Onondaga Dragway and that overall upbeat personality that is Clyde Newsome. Making his fourth appearance on the "5:15", Mr. Newsome talks about: getting his new shop "Clyde's Rides" on line, new media blasting equipment, "soda blasting" and what that is, kitchen cabinet stripping, glass etching, doing some announcing at the Sloan Onondaga...

Straight talking, entertaining and absolutely holds nothing back, Bill Jennings, owner of the Lapeer International Dragway is one our our favorite guests and he is back with us today. Topics in our podcast today include: BOMBSHELL- next year, the lanes to be widen to accommodate much faster classes, new bleachers built, new stairs, built 4 foot ramps to work on cars on during the race day, talking...

We met up with him at PRI and we knew right then we had to have him on. Our guest today is the very cordial and internationally popular William Tharpe-NHRA Director of Division 3. On a wide ranging interview, topics discussed today included: Gatornationals, NHRA return to Michigan and the long way back, Milan Dragway, signing autographs, sportsman racing, a class for everybody, safety for all, wha...

Welcome to the Detroit Sports Talk Show that is NOT bought and paid for by any team, they can tell it like it is! Today, the guys give their opinions on: that stupid slap and why did anyone care, get rid of Blash NOW!, no more patience for ANY Detroit team, hey-the sound board is back, the Leafs or Wings for the toilet, the Kack Hall of Fame, Hard Knocks means that you are the Worst Team in the NF...

If you run into our guest tonight at any drag racing event, you know its going to be a high level shindig. Jenn Beagle is one of the well known personalities and a top shelf photographer in the world of drag racing. Today, we talk with Jenn about such topics as: her association with Lex Joon Racing and what she is doing as media director of that team, the fascinating story of that racing team, her...

Welcome to the premier of our 12th season of the only sports talk show not bought and paid for! In tonight's issue: We pick the ENTIRE 2022 Men's NCAA Basketball bracket (so you can look smart at work tomorrow in front of your friends) including our upset specials, Mark's Maple Leafs, bad Wing's signing Staal, look at bad Lion signing, look how bad QB's in the NFL still get stupid money, look at T...

He is a true living legend in the sport of drag racing. Today our guest is the renowned Dave Lyall who has more stories about drag racing than there are gains of sand. Yet each one is more engaging than the last. Today's show (in what will become a multi-part series) focuses more on how Mr. Lyall got his start on drag racing, the "East Side", Gratiot Avenue street racing scene that he was a big pa...

Their club runs like a Swiss watch and is a model of how races should be run on their day. The man who gets the folks together and keeps them up to date is William Alexander of the Michigan Snowmobile Asphalt Drag Racers Association. Discussed on today's show include topics like: what's been happening over the off season, new rules, racers feedback, rules change procedure, heads up racing, electro...

He is one of the more fascinating people in drag racing and that is why he is back with us for his third time. Steve Timoszyk runs the Detroit Tiger Funny Car, is the promoter for the nostalgia races at the Milan Dragway and is a senior member of the Timoszyk Racing Syndicate that has friends and family involved in all sorts of areas in drag racing. Topics talked about with Mr. Timoszyk include: u...

Many drag racing fans look back at the 70's & 80's as the golden era for Pro Stock and have a special place in their hearts for them. Mike Ruth and his compatriots are doing all they can to preserve that time in racing with their cars in the Midwest Nostalgia Pro Stock Association (ed. note-are two groups that call themselves "Midwest Nostalgia Pro Stock Association"- Mr. Ruth's is the one from th...

Today, we have Mr. Rollie Miller, the General Manager/National Event Director of the NMRA & NMCA Topics talked about included: what are the requirements to join/ race at a NMRA & NMCA race, NMRA and Ford products, the True Street Class/requirements/awards, the 30 mile cruise, 520 cars for the event!, Mr. Miller's background in drag racing, NHRA Safety Safari, Texas to Cali and back, Promedia says...

He has been our guest more than anyone else on the "5:15" and with good reason, folks always want to hear what is going on with him. Today our guest is the Legendary Brian Wolfe, Godfather of the 7.3 "Godzilla" engine. Today, we talk to Brian about such things as: how many Ford drive trains has Brian been involved in, how Brain got involved with Ford in 1982, Jim Clark, behind the scenes of the 19...

Al Thomas, the new President of the National Electric Drag Racing Association  (NEDRA) is a guest that we have had on a few times before and he never disappoints with his Rollex mind of all things electric cars, drag racing, squashing tired cliches about EV's, etc. Topics discussed on tonight's show include: electric snowmobiles, the upswing in NEDRA, some ICE mindsets, how much electricity does i...

Doing our fair share of sand (yes, sand) blasting, we were impressed with what we saw at the Nu-Ice Blasting Equipment booth at PRI last year. Today we are talking to Brent Cooper of Nu-Ice about such topics as: how his company got started, exactly how the dry ice blasting works, where dry ice blasting is best used, safety first, how much dry ice it uses on the job, dry ice pricing, uses for autom...

The book of drag racing history is incredibly thick, and our guests today have more than a few pages in that tome devoted to them. From the legendary Shadowoods Racing Team, our guests are Eliot Erlandson and Jim Tignanelli. Topics covered today include: How Shadowoods got it's name, the Shadowoods Sunoco station, Jim's dad, Logghe chassis, the drag racing all stars that hung around at Shadowoods,...

ATTENTION DRAG RACERS! Time for the CKiW iRADIO 76's inaugural "January Dragstrip Madness! We have the owners or general managers representing drag strips in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana on to talk about their upcoming season. Each track will have just a ten minute time limit and it's one track after another! The tracks featured are: Dragway 42, Lapeer International Dragway, Mid-Michigan Motorplex*,...

 Affable, entertaining and always engaging, we had great fun with our guest today Chris Holbrook from Holbrook Racing Engines. Topics talked about on today's show include: appliance repair, growing up with his father Carl Holbrook, on the road campaigning the Mustang with his father and the job he had to do, "Carl never stops on the road", traveling with his sisters and mom, Circus Peanuts, 428 63...

 EV cars will be the mainstream in the near future and we want this guy on our team! Some dream, some do, and he does both. Our guest today is John Metric from Lonestar EV Performance in Texas. EV performance is all John knows. Think of him as the Keith Black of the EV world. John wowed us at PRI with his EV motor that pumps 1,500 horsepower with 1,500 lb-ft weighing just 240 pounds with just two...