Release Date September 6th 2013directorWayne Hollowaystarring Jesse Williams
Richard BlakeRating & Run Time PG-13 / 1h 43mWhere to watchTubiFun Fact Prudhomme and McEwen have a cameo role

Snake & Mongoose is a somewhat overlooked movie that came out back in 2013. At the time, it only received a limited theatrical release, going straight to DVD in the spring of 2014. Snake & Mongoose had fallen off my radar since I first saw it, but I happened upon it again the other night while browsing through Tubi. 

As any knowledgeable gearhead would deduce, it tells the story of Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. And it also tells the story of how these two guys changed toys forever. No, really. Toys!
Funny Cars & Rising Stars

Back in the late 1960s, everything was moving fast and changing before our eyes. Racing was very much part of this time, and even the rather proscribed world of drag racing was not immune. One of the genres of drag racing that was completely new was funny car racing. This is a type of racing where production-looking bodies made of fiberglass were lowered onto rail dragsters of considerable power and performance. 

Two of the rising stars in the world of funny car racing were Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen. They didn’t start as great rivals; they were actually kind of buddies in the tight-knit and insular world of drag racing, or at least buddies as ...