The Seventies. Big hair, bell bottoms, platform shoes, disco, and proto-malaise. Not all of it was bad, though, and this video is here to remind you that drag racing in the Nixon era ruled, in the da...
2017 Nitro Revival at Barona Drag Strip. Photo by Pam Conrad, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2017, a new event honoring vintage dragsters and the racers who piloted them came to the Barona Dr...
Dick Landy’s 1965 Dodge Hemi Coronet AFX Dragster. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The 12 B-bodies rolled out by Chrysler in late 1964 for Factory Experimental drag racing didn’t look quite right, es...
Gas Ronda. Photo by Greg Sharp. Even as a child, long before the sport of drag racing entered his life, Gaspar Ronda went by the nickname “Gas.” One of Ford’s factory Thunderbolt racers and an early ...
The Snake II funny car. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Don Prudhomme initially preferred dragsters to funny cars, because, in his mind, early floppers weren’t all that quick. It was a chassis built...
Photo by Steve Reyes. Though it’s been 40 years since “Jungle Jim” Liberman died, the impression he left on the sport of drag racing – particularly among funny car fans – through his incessant tourin...
“Jungle Jim” Chevrolet Monza funny car. Photo courtesy NHRA. While the Automobile Driving Museum has historically focused on American cars and the on-road driving experience essential to those cars, ...
One of the unlikeliest stories we’ve seen on Japanese Nostalgic Car as of late was their look back at that hazily remembered period of time in the late 1970s when Japanese cars suddenly became fair g...