Pat Van Racing’s Tom Armitage Gives Us The Tech And Specs Behind The Team’s 10-second Mini-Slingshot Dragster – This Rules
May 11, 2014Brian Lohnes6
After running the video of Team Pat Van Racing’s miniature, motorcycle powered slingshot running down into the 10-second zone at England’s York Raceway, we reached out to Tom and asked...
Watching This Hemi Powered Model A Rip Around The Streets At Sunrise With No Mufflers Is Good For Your Soul
May 11, 2014Brian Lohnes7
(Words by Greg Rourke) – This video has been around for a little while, but it says it all. A primer gray Model A, Chrysler Fire Power Hemi with a half dozen Strombergs, mufflers left at the...
Gallery: 50 Photos of Engines
May 11, 2014Brian Lohnes3
Since we’ve been mowing down the “50 photos” galleries of different styles of cars, we thought it was time to switch gears a little and showcase the coolest part of any hot rod, the...
CLICK HERE FOR LIVE Streaming Video From Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show And Drags This Weekend!
May 10, 2014Chad Reynolds4
That’s right folks, get your drag racing in on Saturday and then take momma out on Sunday! The Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show and Drags is going on this Saturday, May 10th, at Irwindale...
Ride On The World’s Quickest And Fastest Single Engine Flathead Powered Dragster- 7s On Nitro And Lots Of Boost
May 10, 2014Brian Lohnes2
The Ford flathead V8 is one of the reasons any of us even know what a hot rod is. Sure, guys were messing around with little four banger engines back in the day but it is was the V8 engine that...
Gene Fulton Built A Killer Old School Gasser And This Is Video Of His First Time Out With It – Jamming Gears And All!
May 10, 2014Brian Lohnes9
Gene Fulton is one of the great names in door slammer drag racing history. His engines has powered some of the most fearsome drag race cars of all time and Fulton was a multi-time national champion...
Frriday BOOM: A Massive Nitrous Explosion With Bonus Aftermath Footage Of The ‘Sploded Intake Manifold
May 09, 2014Brian Lohnes3
Normally with nitrous explosion videos, there’s no real idea of what happens after the big BOOM. That’s not the case with this video, shot at North Carolina’s Outer Banks Raceway....
Cool Drag Action From The Pro Street Racing Association Event At Thunder Valley Raceway In Oklahoma
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Drag Action From The Pro Street Racing Association Event At Thunder Valley Raceway In Oklahoma
(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – If it’s the first Saturday from April to October during racing season in Oklahoma, that means that Thunder Valley Raceway Park just outside Noble,...
FireAde Joins With Gray Motorsports Pro Stock Camaro Driver Shane Gray
May 08, 2014Darr HawthorneComments Off on FireAde Joins With Gray Motorsports Pro Stock Camaro Driver Shane Gray
We get a lot of Press Releases landing into the email In-box, but this rendering of Shane Gray’s sleek Jerry Haas-built Chevy Camaro caught our eye. The new FireAde Camaro will debut at the...
Book Review: Liam Garritty’s Saturday Forever Drag Racing Photo Book And Bonus March Meet Photos
May 08, 2014Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Book Review: Liam Garritty’s Saturday Forever Drag Racing Photo Book And Bonus March Meet Photos
As a child growing up at Fremont Drag Strip, the romanticism of drag cars of all kinds was huge to my little mind. Thinking back to those days makes you feel like the Funny Cars and Top Fuel...
Video: Don Garlits Talks About His First Visit To The Track With The SR-37 Electric Dragster And Why He Believes In The Project
May 08, 2014Brian Lohnes2
Don Garlits’ recent success in the seat of Swamp Rat 37 is well known around here as we’ve been following the project since we first head about it. While the team did not eclipse 200mph...
Ride Along On A Land Speed Record Setting Run In A Turbo 2JZ Powered Nissan At The Ohio Mile
May 08, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Ride Along On A Land Speed Record Setting Run In A Turbo 2JZ Powered Nissan At The Ohio Mile
The other day we took you for a ride with the Matty boys in their Time Bomb Camaro, today we’re switching gears and shoving you in the passenger seat of Jerry Hoffman’s Nissan 240sx land...
Matt Frost’s Drag Week Nova Project Looks And Sounds Like Serious Business – Will It Be Done In Time?
May 07, 2014Brian Lohnes1
Self described Drag Week fanatic Matt Frost dropped us a quick note and a few photos of the project he is building for Drag Week 2014. The car is a late first generation Chevy Nova and the story of...
This 1968 Hemi Road Runner Has 1,400 Original Miles And The Seller Wants About $100 For Each Of Them
May 07, 2014Brian Lohnes19
When the words “original Hemi Roadrunner” come out of someone’s mouth we get all excited and when you sprinkle in the “very low mileage” words we really start to get the...