Drag racing, a sport characterized by its high-octane thrills and straight-line speed, has become an iconic part of American culture. With its roots deeply embedded in the American automotive ...

Years before the muscle car era began, radical real-deal hot rods like these were ripping up dragstrips across the country. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...

Back in the late 1960s, drag-racing was a bit of a back-alley sport. It wasn't much more than legalized street racing, where guys would super-tune their pride-and-joy cars and go out to some ...

When talking about the 1960s drag racing scene, we usually think about factory Super Stock vehicles, gassers, and the then-new funny cars. But enthusiasts kept racing true-blue stock rigs at the time.

Before Pose, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Paris Is Burning introduced the art of ballroom eleganza and drag excellence to audiences around the world, Frank Simon’s 1968 documentary The Queen cast a ...

Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...

36.51 x 30.48 cm. (14.4 x 12 in.) ...

ATTLEBORO - As a chief mechanic and a drag racer whose machines operate just on the edge of control, Ralph Poirier has been able to get the most out of men and machines hurtling down the track at more ...

YORK, Pa. — Back in the day, when the hot rod era was at a high among American-made car manufacturers, it wasn’t uncommon to use an airport runway as a drag strip. On Saturday nights for nearly 20 ...