Result for: nostalgia nationals
Roland Leong, The Hawaiian, Is Gone. He Was Truly A Legend, In The Purist Sense Of The Word. RIP My Friend.
(Words by Darr Hawthorne and Chad Reynolds. Photos by Lou Hart – LionsAutomobilia.org) The word Legend is often used for those we looked up to, but Roland Leong was truly a Legend in the purest...
PAINTED in 1971 and PARKED for 37 Years! – This NASH Gasser Lives Again
Sometimes cars get parked not because something mechanical has plagued them but rather because the owner has lost interest. Or because something else is wrong. In the case of this bitchin Nash...
The Life, Cars, And Adventures Of Drag Racing Legend Dyno Don Nicholson
There is no denying the impact that Dyno Don Nicholson had on drag racing history and in this great video you are going to see a bunch of cool footage from his escapades in years past. I love it, and...
Wheels UP! NMCA Expands Their Stock and Super Stock Program To Include Individual Championships!
Big news here for stock and super stock racers as the NMCA has decided to expand their offerings for class racers in 2022. For about a half decade these guys have run a great stock/super stock combo...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Regular Guy Funny Car Heroes, The Inside Story on Pro Stock Motorcycle, and Remembering A Legend Gone Too Soon
Guests Mike McIntire Jr and National Dragster Senior Editor Kevin McKenna join host Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider podcast this week to talk all things on the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals...
NHRA Is Reporting That Our Boy Jason Rupert’s Funny Car Team Will Debut In Las Vegas This Weekend!
We’re so excited to see the Rupert Motorsports, Bays and Rupert Funny Car make it’s debut at the Las Vegas 4-Wide Nationals this weekend at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Jason...
Best of 2020: 1974’s “Vrooom!”, A Look Back To The Track In 1974!
Being a student of history, you have to rely on tangible evidence from the past in order to bring it to life. Books, manuscripts, stories from reputable individuals who were actually on the scene...
From Bruce Larson to Big John Mazmanian,These Indy Home Movies Are Amazing, Especially With Freeze Frames
With Indy being the site of the NHRA “re-start” races last weekend and again this weekend, we wanted to look into its past. These films were made in the late 1960s at the US Nationals and...
Big News: Nitto Tire NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing Moves to St. Louis!
These are the days of making big and bold moves if you’re in the world of racing. In terms of legacy events and making sure they happen, few of them are better than this. The headline,...
The Rookie: A Conversation With Nitro Funny Car Racer Alex Miladinovich – How To Race A Funny Car On A Regular Guy Budget
There are always feel good stories in drag racing and most of them center around people who race with a lot of heart and soul. At the 2020 NHRA Winternationals, the drag racing world got to meet Alex...
Throwback Speed: Some Of Our Favorite Old Car Websites Still Chugging Along In 2020!
(All images courtesy of their respective websites unless otherwise noted) Believe it or not, the internet as we know it today has been around for 30 years this year. While online bulletin boards and...
Best of 2019: Take A Closer Look At The Larry Peternel Imperial Pro Stocker!
Robert Frost is one of America’s great poets, a man whose work with the written word became so much more than simple scribbles on paper. From the publishing of his first work, “My...
Classic YouTube: Early 1990s Super Stock Class Eliminations At Indy! All Sticks Shrieking Engines, Dry Hops, And Gear Jamming!
I didn’t go looking for old racing footage for nostalgia’s sake this time. Between 1990 and 1992, when this footage from the NHRA US Nationals at Indy was captured, I was a young kid who...
