Racing With Dad: Here’s A Spectacular Story From The NMCA Finals And Why We Love This Sport
Sep 03, 2015Brian Lohnes1
There’s always something cool about going racing with your family. Speaking from the father and son perspective some of the most fun weekends I have ever spent in the sport of drag...
2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Courtney Force & Clay Millican Into Traxxas Nitro Shootout!
Sep 02, 2015Darr HawthorneComments Off on 2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Courtney Force & Clay Millican Into Traxxas Nitro Shootout!
Courtney Force and Clay Millican claimed the No. 8 positions in the Traxxas Nitro Shootout following special lottery drawings held in downtown Indianapolis to preview the Chevrolet Performance U.S....
Killer Video: Check Out This Profile Film Of The World’s Fastest Street Legal Rat Rod – 197mph ECTA Certified!
Sep 02, 2015Brian Lohnes1
There’s cool and then there is COOL and when we first saw Aaron Brown roll into an ECTA meet with “The Uncatchable” a 1939 Ford truck rat rod we knew that this was a dude with a...
Ride On The Back Of The Quickest And Fastest Pontiac Powered Car In The World
Sep 02, 2015Brian Lohnes2
If you are a devotee of the Pontiac brand than you surely know KRE or Kauffman Racing Equipment. These guys are hardcore Pontiac specialists and we don’t mean of the nut and bolt restoration...
A True Freak: A Turbocharged Honda CR-V. Go Home, Everybody, The “Dare To Be Different” Trophy Has Been Won This Week.
Sep 02, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Do I have anything nice to say about the Honda CR-V? No, not really. If you want to announce to the world that you don’t care one ounce about the vehicle you are driving, so long as it will...
SoCal Tribute To Gassers With Straight Axles Galore! Huge Gasser Gallery!
Sep 02, 2015Darr HawthorneComments Off on SoCal Tribute To Gassers With Straight Axles Galore! Huge Gasser Gallery!
(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) The Automobile Museum of Driving hosted the second of their Tribute to Gassers, the straight axle, blown and injected monsters that once filled the staging lanes...
Bartone And Boggs Top Fueler Continues Winning Ways!
Sep 01, 2015Darr HawthorneComments Off on Bartone And Boggs Top Fueler Continues Winning Ways!
Words by NHRA Communications and AA/FD Sunday at the NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion concluded at New England Dragway provided a final day of exciting quarter-mile drag racing and classic car...
Corvair Blog War! Mactaggart’s Clean And Stock ‘Vair Was Cool But This Gasser Freak Rules!
Sep 01, 2015Brian Lohnes7
The other day, McTaggart posted a pretty clean little Corvair as part of a Rough Start item he wrote and while the car was nice and cheap it was pretty much stock. Stock Corvairs are nice but they...
This Shorty Shoebox Chevy Isn’t Just A Lame Boulevard Cruiser, It Is A Drag Racing Machine!
Sep 01, 2015Brian Lohnes2
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – A short while ago Bryan showed us a 70 Chevelle which someone helpfully whacked the middle out of for reasons unknown. Back on the late 60’s and early...
This Wagoneer…Shouldn’t…Do…That! This 1100 Horsepower Turbo Sleeper Is Brutal!
Sep 01, 2015Bryan McTaggart10
Do you all remember, a few months ago, a story we ran on a guy who was swapping a nasty 3rd gen Hemi engine into a Jeep Cherokee…the full-sized version…using a Chevy C-10 frame as a base?...
2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Coughlin Family Has Storied History at Indy
Aug 31, 2015Darr Hawthorne1
Words and photos by Team JEGS Indianapolis is a magic place for racers from all over the world, and for many, simply getting to compete at historic Lucas Oil Raceway is a dream come true. But...
2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: JR Todd Replaces Massey In Traxxas Top Fuel Shootout
Aug 31, 2015Darr HawthorneComments Off on 2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: JR Todd Replaces Massey In Traxxas Top Fuel Shootout
Words by NHRA Communications Photos by Jeff Burghardt NHRA officials announced today that Seattle winner J.R. Todd has been inserted into the Traxxas Nitro Shootout Top Fuel field in place of...
2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Larry Dixon Has Four Decades of Indy Performance
Aug 31, 2015Darr HawthorneComments Off on 2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Larry Dixon Has Four Decades of Indy Performance
Words by NHRA Communications Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt, Darr Hawthorne and NHRA Media Three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon’s fascination with the Chevrolet...
Watch The Quickest And Fastest Side By Side NMCA Pro Mod Pass In History – Razor Tight And Crazy Quick
Aug 31, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch The Quickest And Fastest Side By Side NMCA Pro Mod Pass In History – Razor Tight And Crazy Quick
The final of Pro Mod at the NMCA World Street Finals played out exactly as it “should” have. The two quickest qualified cars waded their way through the field and met for the last blast...










