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
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
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
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
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?
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
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...
Ride Inside The Time Bomb Camaro As It Runs 198mph and Turns 9,300 RPM At The Ohio Mile
I recently started my second season as the announcer for the East Coast Timing Association and their events held in Wilmington, Ohio or what is more commonly known as “The Ohio Mile”....
Watch Tom Armitage Rip Off Wild 10-Second Passes In A Miniscule Motorcycle Engine Powered Slingshot
We’ve been showing you the cool vehicles dreamed up over in England by Tom Armitage and his band of henchmen. They are they are the guys who turned a Postman Pat shopping center ride into a...
This 1972 Charger Is Powered By A Caterpillar Gas Turbine And It Is For Sale…In Sweden
Of all the engine swaps and stories about guys putting LS engines in everything that you’ll read over the remainder of your life, we’re pretty sure that this is the only freaking story...
BangShifting Video Perfection: Nine Minutes Of Super Stock K Class Shootout Action From The Auto Meter Class Nationals!
If you never hear from Chad again after today it is because he’s tuned into this video, suffered a stroke, and that’ll be the end of that. Why would he freak out over this awesome...
Drag Week Reader Build: This Boosted, Coyote Powered Mercury Capri Makes 900hp At The Tire And Eats Clutches
The Mercury Capri is a Fox-body that lots of people seem to either forget about or write off. Yes, the looks weren’t quite as good as the Fox-body Mustang, but there are less of them around,...
More Sweet Drag Action From The Radial Revenge Tour At Tulsa Last Weekend!
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Yesterday we showed you our first gallery of Brad Klaassen photos from the Radial Revenge event at Tulsa Raceway Park last weekend. This race (in typical Tulsa...
Sad News: “Clay” Jones, Vice-President Of Beech Bend Raceway Passes At Age 42
Exceptionally sad news to report today as Darren “Clay” Jones, the son of Beech Bend Raceway Park owner Dallas Jones, vice-president of the track and the amusement park, and all around...
