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...
Photo via NHRA. Tom Jobe, the last of the Surfers drag team, died earlier this month at the age of 89. If you’re not a hardcore drag racing fan (or if you weren’t paying close attention to the story ...
The Corvette. I’m gonna switch from the “royal we” that I usually use to convey the general opinion and position of Hemmings to the “lowly subject me” for a minute. Because I’m gonna use my own thoug...
When is too much, too much? When it comes to vintage drag racing 8mm filmstrips, we say, “NEVER.” It’s never too much. Sure, the weird soundtracks that are usually put to them when they’re transferre...
Documented 1965 Devin Special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A spectacular pairing of European design and American grunt, this Devin roadster is offered for sale by its orig...
Gasser-style 1956 Ford Fairlane for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 2DR Fairlane was first customized in the 60’s. The black paint is one of the best indicators of its histo...
Photo via Los Angeles Times. If you haven’t been paying attention to Daniel Miller’s “Larger Than Life” docuseries on Big Willie Robinson for the Los Angeles Times, it’s worth diving into. Robinson, ...
Photo by Tony Harrison. Set up in a rural corner of England to celebrate American-style drag racing, Santa Pod Raceway has also been beset with American-style conflicts over noise with area housing d...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As Charles R. Morris wrote in his book, Factory Lightweights: Detroit’s Drag Racing Specialties of the 1960s, “No auto manufacturer ever got more bang for their advert...
Photo from 2006 article courtesy Bruce Crower. On his newest self-built hot rod, which looks more like an IRL car with two seats instead of one, the license plate reads simply “INMYDNA.” Now, there’s...
We’re on a vintage Olds Power jag this week, folks. And we’re not even sorry. Nor should we be, right? When it comes to all things Muscle, we’d submit that we spend way too much time limiting ourselv...
Testing Swamp Rat 38 in Ocala. Photos courtesy Lisa Crigar Images. Last January 14, drag racing legend Don Garlits celebrated his 87th birthday. At an age where most are content to reflect on their l...
Automotive American this week covered the Vintage Hot Rod Association’s Pendine Sands races, one of the U.K.’s largest celebrations of hot rods and American car culture. Tech inspection began on Frid...
This week, we’re bringing you a great video that’s probably best just listened to while you’re googling vintage drag racing photos. The one and only Dave Wallace, Jr. – the hardest-working man in dra...
Date: 1967 Location: West Salem, Ohio Source: via Dave Wiechec What do you see here?
A tubbed 10-second Camaro in mid-pass. Photos by author and by Jake McBride. If you live in the Northeast (or have relatives here), you know this to be true: Last winter was a never-ending grind of b...
Here’s a debate that’s been raging in backyards and home garages for half-a-century already: Who had the cooler Front-Engine Dragster? Now, there were literally tons of great cars built between the F...
As-raced 1947 Ford coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1947 Ford Coupe was built and raced by a club called the Gu Hun’s of the San Fernando Valley and raced from 1957...
The Miller and Guenther 1965 Plymouth Belvedere A990 factory lightweight. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. By the time Ed Miller paired with Kip Guenther to purchase “Akron Arlen” Vanke’s four-speed 1...
It’s no secret that we’re losing dragstrips all across this great land. Why is that? Land values increasing? Housing developments being allowed to go up near tracks? People less interested in drag ra...
What nonsense is this? Welp, if you grew up in the mid-century suburbs, the idea those developers had in mind for you was…”same.” Same houses on uniform plots, same driveways, same mailboxes, complia...
If you’re here, we don’t have to convince you that the first-gen Funny Car era was one of the coolest, if not craziest, in drag racing history. Social media is chock-full of great old photos and some...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In many ways, the story of the Jones-Benisek 1970 Buick GS is the story of the car(s) that it is not. It is not the Stage 1 car that its flanks and badging indicate. I...
Photo courtesy Onondaga Dragway. A bittersweet farewell message greeted visitors to Onondaga Dragway’s website earlier this month, noting that “we don’t know where to go from here” after a six-year-r...
An early Chattanooga Cruise-In, circa 2015. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Chattanooga Cruise-In began as an open house at Coker Tire’s downtown headquarters, but in recent years — thanks in part to th...