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This week, here at the Muscle Machines newsletter, we’re featuring a smart little ’51 Henry J gasser-style ruler for sale on hemmings.com. Sure, there are plently of these cars around nowadays…and da...
This week, here at the Muscle Machines newsletter, we’re featuring a smart little ’51 Henry J gasser-style ruler for sale on hemmings.com. Sure, there are plently of these cars around nowadays…and da...
We do love a good mystery. And when it’s backed up by a neat story, nay, legend, count us in, kid. And so it is with the legend of a certain ’56 Chevy post coupe that ran the San Francisco Bay area b...
While we’re all cooped-up at home practicing the gearhead version of social distancing (read: texting each other drag pics behind closed garage doors), we know that, at some point, you’ll find yourse...
Is there anything more fun than heads-up, straight-axled drag cars on the street? Than backing a car off a trailer where mere mortals park commuter crossovers? Than trying to time the last smokey bur...
When we talk about the “glory days” of drag racing, we’re not talking about the cars, alone. Sure, the cars are at the center of our affections, but there was also the dragstrip exhibition scene. Y’k...
Photo: MP Collection If you’ve been following along for awhile, it won’t come as a surprise that we never miss a chance to share an old snapshot from what we believe to be the greatest era of motorsp...
You can’t rush perfection, and it seems that perfection is exactly what model maker Ken Foran is after with his scratchbuilt 1/8-scale version of Tommy Ivo’s quad-engine dragster. We came across the ...
This week, we turn to the subject of minibikes. Pit bikes. Hammy-hams. Scooters. Whatever you call them, they’re probably the second-most popular machine you’ll see at any dragstrip. Why? Well, run b...
Yeah, yeah, yeah… we know. We know you’ve seen that one episode of “The Munsters” with the drag race. WE. KNOW. But look, it’s the Halloween edition of the Muscle Machines weekly and do you really th...
There are few things as satisfying as watching an old motor undergoing a fresh rebuild, amiright? There’s just something about a vintage cast-iron block and all those imperfections being perfected th...
OK, OK–forgive the blurriness, but we had to blow this thing up to see all the crazy-good details in it: that digger, the paint, the trailer, the ’58 Chevy in the background, the fuelie set-up, the b...
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...
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...
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...
If you’re here, you’re probably into muscle cars. If you’re into vintage muscle cars, you’re probably a drag racing fan. And if you dig the Digs, you probably have a soft-spot for vintage dragsters, ...
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...
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...
In keeping with the theme this week, we’re totally geeking on race car haulers up in here. Whether it’s an open trailer, a home-made single-axle, a ramp truck, a flatbed, an enclosed deal, or even pu...
Time for another poll, kids! This week, we’ve got the legendary and much-pined-for Ford Galaxie on our bent, little minds. And, since we can’t leave anything well enough alone, we’re thinking about c...
While there’s nothing better than some great historic celluloid to get our little black hearts pumping, sometimes a video that’s nothing more than a pile of great old photos stitched together with a ...
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...
One of our favorite features of the Muscle Machines weekly is this historic photo thing we’ve been doing for awhile now. And, by the number of responses, we think you all agree! Couldn’t be happier a...