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...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. If we were to assemble a clickbait top-10 list of T.V. Tommy Ivo drag-racing moments, the creation of his quad-engine Showboat exhibition racer and...
Tom Jobe, a third of the legendary “Surfers” dragster team that romped across the sport in the Sixties, passed away last week. Jobe, Bob Skinner and Mike Sorokin weren’t surfers at all, but they were...
Photos courtesy of Southwest Valuations and Classic Car Auction Group. No need to remind any of you that we’re well into 2019 – and that dragsters of the Golden Era of drag racing (let’s call it 1963...
Tom McEwen’s 1968-’69 Top Fuel slingshot dragster. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. By the mid-1960s, Tom McEwen had earned a reputation as a winning drag racer (and the nickname “Th...
In 1968, the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indy were recorded for a documentary produced by Hollywood’s Documentary Productions Inc. Not only is the hour-plus film an amazing capture of what drag racing was...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
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...
Photo courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. In January of 2008, NHRA Top Fuel dragster pilot Doug Herbert was racing in Arizona when he received the call that every parent dreads: His two sons, Jon, a...
The 2016 Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame induction class, with founder John Scotti (foreground). Photos courtesy Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Last year was the first time that the newly estab...
Ninety-nine percent of the cars and trucks that appear as Hemmings Finds of the Day are probably ninety-nine percent more practical than the Rain for Rent Top Fuel dragster from the mid- to late Seve...
UEM DRAG BIKE European Championship @ Kunmadaras, HUNGARY 2011.04.28 - 2011.05.01. with TOP FUEL, TOP Methanol, Promod CARS! - XPROVID Films.
taken from the DVD production "Drag Racing Turtmann" filmed in Switzerland, released in 2007. http://pixeleye.biz/#202641/Drag-Racing-DVD Showrun of european champion Urs Erbacher + interview from Sw...