Mopar HEMI® Challenge 15th Anniversary At 2015 U.S. Nationals
Six time and defending Mopar HEMI® Challenge Champion Charlie Westcott Jr. in his War Fish ‘Cuda. Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt For the 15th consecutive season, Mopar will underscore its...
Thornhill Dragway Nostalgia Drag Photos: Freaky Funny Cars, Straight Axle Mafia Coolness
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So what we have here are the Straight-Axle Mafia and some other classic-style racers that came to play old-time drags. The racing was 1/8th mile and was...
Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s
Chances are that you’ve never heard of the Best and Gordon Purple Haze A/Fuel dragster from the early 1970s. Don’t worry, you are not alone because we hadn’t either, and frankly...
2015 NHRA New England Nationals: Our Last Great Photo Collection – Drivers, Crowds, Racing Action
(Photos by Rich Pasley) – The second of a three race back to back to back stretch on the east coast for NHRA teams the NHRA New England Nationals was another success for the venerable drag...
Amazing eBay Find! This Quadruple Four Barrel, Straight 8 Powered Street Roadster Was A 1970s NHRA Killer
We see lots of cool old drag cars around here but this one is in a league all of its own. For sale on eBay is this absolutely awesome former NHRA street roadster class machine that can in the C/SR...
Look! New Edelbrock E-CNC LS3 Heads That Will Help You Make Big Power NA or Boosted
Let’s face it, the magic in GM LS Engines is in the cylinder heads. The rest of it is just so much stuff that consists of a bunch of metal that holds a crank, rods, and pistons. There is NO...
Hard Guys Nitro Funny Car Heads To IHRA Nitro Jam At MIR With High Expectations
After a winter of building engines, upgrading the car, and testing in recent weeks the Hard Guys nitro funny car is ready for its first true test of the 2015 season at this weekend’s IHRA NItro...
Drag Action: Our Last Blast From The Mega Mopar Action Race At Maple Grove Raceway
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – It was a great weekend of showing, racing, and hanging out at Maple Grove Raceway for the Mega Mopar Action weekend. From the SS/AH cars that blistered the strip and...
NHRA New England Nationals Photo Journal Continues – Header Flames Galore On A Beautiful Friday Night
(Photos by Rich Pasley) – If there is one thing that people love about going to the drag races it is seeing records set. Track records, national records, whatever it is, those little slices of...
King Of The Streets 2015: Pit Photos From The Showdown At Great Lakes Dragaway
(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – Combining the elements of an awesome, historic drag strip with the new wave movement of no-prep drag racing was the name of the game at the King of the Streets...
Watch The 3,000hp, All Steel, 1963 Dodge Known As Bad Judgement Clean House At King Of The Streets
The King of the Streets event at Great Lakes Dragaway had an unlimited class for the first time last weekend and that meant that some big tire, huge horsepower cars showed up to take on the unprepped...
Wheelstand Wednesday! Street Outlaws AZN Drags The Bumper On Dung Beetle
The Street Outlaws guys are a bunch of characters, and most seem to be guys that half the people love and half the people hate. AZN is a little different. He takes a lot of fire. I think it might be...
Do You Believe That The State Of Drag Racing Is Better Or Worse Than 20 Years Ago?
If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times…” All the race tracks near me are gone.” And that’s not just from Drag Racers, but since this is...
The Final Of The McLeod Stick Shift Shootout Was A Gear Jamming, Clutch Dumping Affair In Norwalk
While the automatic transmission has certainly taken the volume lead in the sport of drag racing, there’s a bunch of guys left who are stuck doing it the hard way and we love them all. As if...
