Pro Street Cool or Pro Street Weird? This 1978 Olds 442 Has Real Olds Power!
This one sure falls under the Dare to be Different banner, right? When’s the last time you saw a 1978 Olds 442 let alone one that’s been built into a ground pounding pro street car with a...
Watch Doorslammer Legend Tommy Mauney Get A Facefull Of Fire At Shady Side Dragway
Tommy Mauney (pronounced Mooney) is one of the great door slammer chassis builders and racers of all time. He was there for the beginning of pro mod, developed lots of the stuff that has been refined...
Day of The Drags 2016: One Of The Coolest Drag Racing Events In The Country Rolls On
(Photos by Robert Paxton) – There are few events in the country with the cool factor that the Kontinentals Day of the Drags event has. This race is a gathering of cool, weird, old timey, and...
Kris Krabill Scores 1st NHRA Heritage Championship As Jason Rupert 3-Petes IHRA Nitro Funny Car Title!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – IHRA photos Courtesy of IHRA Communications) Kris Krabill and the Austin & O’Brien “Northwest Hitter” Firebird nitro funny car team wrapped up the 2016...
Schadenfreude: This Editorial From The Quad Cities Times Sums Up The Epic World Series Of Drag Racing Fail Perfectly
You can’t blame them and certainly we do not. The Quad Cities Times newspaper was quick to jump on the fact that the move of the famed World Series of Drag Racing from its ancestral home on...
Dyno Video: Watch The Blown Flathead Powered Scrap Iron 2 Fox Body Mustang Roar Out 250hp
Here’s a land speed racing video that has no salt, no Ohio mile, no Texas mile, and frankly no forward motion. This is a video made by the Landry crew who run a car at the Ohio Mile and at...
Watch NHRA Funny Driver Ron Capps Hit The Sand Trap Hard At The US Nationals
It was a frightening day for veteran funny car driver Ron Capps yesterday when his NAPA Dodge had a parachute deployment problem at the top end and he entered the sand trap HARD. As you will see,...
Gearing Up For Winter: How About A Seven-Second Snowmobile? Yes, Please!
Winter sucks, and I’m not looking forward to it’s arrival in a few short weeks. I don’t care if it does sound like bitching…I’ll own that with a smile. Cold, rainy,...
The Parting Shift: A 351 Powered Tremec TKO Equipped Mustang Hits The Strip
Because we’re going to be living in the land of the LS next week at Holley LS Fest we figured that some good old Ford gear bashing was needed for this week’s Parting Shift. The subject at...
Watch Anthony Vanetti Go Hurtling Into The Net After His Pro Stock Bike Lost The Brakes At Indy
Pro Stock motorcycle racer Anthony Vanetti made his national event debut at the 62nd running of the NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals and yesterday did not go quite the way he planned. Vanetti...
Watch The Tremendous Robert Hight Funny Car Explosion From The 2016 NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals
There are a few things that we hold self-evident around here and one of them is that no matter what is done to advance technology and reliability in the nitro ranks, stuff will still blow up. Robert...
62! Aaron Strong Wins Delayed Seattle Pro Stock Final At Indy – Amazing!
The history books will show that Aaron Strong won the 798th NHRA pro stock race in history and became the 62nd person to ever hoist an NHRA Wally with the words “Pro Stock Champion” on it...
Testing Out The Chi-Town Hustler Dodge Omni Funny Car At Route 66!
The Chi-Town Hustler is one of those legendary funny-car names that stops die-hard fans in their tracks and turns them directly to the track, and causes newcomers and those who have no clue about how...
