Killer Video: Watch The Very First Passes Ever Made At The Texas Motorplex In 1986 – Invite Only Night, Bare Concrete!
So today is the second day of racing at the AAA of Texas NHRA Fall Nationals, an event that’s been part of the schedule for decades. In fact, it was 32 years ago that the Texas Motorplex opened...
Stick Shifters! This Early 1970s Toy Commercial Has Us Thinking These Were The Best Drag Toys Ever
I had some really fun car and truck toys when I was a kid. Stuff that would drive and crawl and make noise, etc. Those were exceptionally fun days back then, using your imagination and playing with...
Video: This LIVE NHRA Today From The 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals In Texas Is Awesome
Now THIS is fun drag racing TV, to us anyway. You are going to watch an episode of NHRA Today made at the Texas motorplex 26 years ago during the 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals in Texas. It is fun...
Watch Justin Martin And His Nova Make The Quickest Limited Drag Radial Run In History 4.09!
Justin Martin was a solid player in the Limited Drag Radial category of competition at Diamond Pistons No Mercy last weekend. The car was rattling off numbers in the low ‘teens despite the...
Don Garlits Picks His Six Favorite Swamp Rats And Tells Us Why!
As much as Don Garlits was defined by his slew of amazing performances on the track during his career, he was also defined by his cars. There were a total of 37 machines that carried the...
LS Killer: This Aussie Ford Falcon Has A Warmed Up Barra Inline 6 and It Goes 9s
In a country fully obsessed with LS swaps, LS performance, and LS bragging rights, it seems inconceivable that there would ever be a challenger to the king of cheap horsepower. That challenger comes...
‘Splosion Video: Mark Oswald Suffers A Titanic Boomer At The Texas Motorplex Circa 1990
This weekend, Mark Oswald will be crew chiefing the Matco U.S. Army top fuel dragster of Antron Brown but in 1990 he was a kid driving the Ford Motorcraft nitro funny cars and doing a fine job of it....
BARRIER BROKEN: Turbinator Becomes First Wheel Driven Car To Break 500mph!
Yesterday was one of the most incredible days in land speed racing and the storied history of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Dave Spangler, driving the Team Vesco Turbinator became the first human being...
Howell EFI Is Your Home For LSx Swaps and Conversions – Plug, Play, and Don’t Delay!
We all know that the hottest thing in hot rodding continues to be swapping LSx engines into…well, into everything. People use this engine because it is compact, powerful, and easy to use,...
Goodbye, Jimmy: New England Based Drag Racing Legend Jimmy King Has Died – 1971 Gatornationals Winner, Great Guy
In crummy news today, we are sad to report on the passing of New England drag racing legend Jimmy King, driver of the famed King and Marshall top fuel dragster and later their El Diablo nitro funny...
Mark Williams Enterprises Rear End Options Offer Convenience, Options, Quality, and Engineering – Why Consider Anyone Else?
Mark Williams Enterprises is known for a host of effective, hardcore, and high quality products. They are really, really well known for their rear axles and the associated components that they have...
Drag History Video: Here’s the Broadcast Of The 1988 IHRA Texas Nationals – The Weekend The 5-Second Barrier Fell
They’re just numbers. They are just digits on a slip of paper or on a scoreboard. That’s what the world sees. That’s what people who have never measured themselves against time,...
Historic Drag Video: This Footage From The 1981 Olympics Of Drag Racing Is Awesome
Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week rolls into historic Great Lakes Dragaway today. This place, which rose to prominence behind the creative, wacky, and tireless work of the late Broadway Bob Metzler is cool....
