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HIGH FLYERS; Muscle Car 1000 takes off from the USS Midway's flight deck.(Revs)
Byline: PATRICK C. PATERNIE
Chris Hoskins has been under the spell of muscle cars since his first whiff of burning rubber and high-octane fumes at age six, courtesy of Grandpa lighting up the tires on his 1965 GTO.
Thirty-five years later, as organizer of the Muscle Car 1000 (billed as a "six-day luxury adventure'' for devotees of brawny Detroit iron; see www. musclecar1000.com), Hoskins set out to combine muscle-car mojo with what Navy veterans call Midway magic. As in the USS Midway, the Navy's longest-commissioned aircraft carrier, which served from near the end of World War II to its role as flagship in Operation Desert Storm. Since 2004, the Midway has been a floating naval aviation museum moored in San Diego harbor.
And on Oct. 8, thanks to Hoskins, it was a floating drag strip and muscle-car museum when he arranged to have a dozen of the 30 cars in his 2007 tour stage side-by-side burnouts on the flight deck.
"I got the idea from the Lawman Funny Car that entertained troops in Vietnam with exhibition runs down the flight decks of aircraft carriers,'' Hoskins explained. "I asked the ...
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