The 1960s were a transformative period for sdrag racing, a time when the sport was still in its raw, unrefined form, far removed from the corporate-driven spectacle it is today. This era marked the ...

The 1960s were a cool time for American cars. Car culture was huge. It was not just about getting from one place to another. Teenagers would hang out at drive-ins and people who liked to race would go ...

Burnouts. Hot rods. Hemis. Horsepower. The smell of racing fuel. Trophy girls. Drag racing back in the day wasn't polished or corporate — it was raw, loud, and rebellious. From two friends squaring ...

During the 1960s, drag racing competitions sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) reached unprecedented levels of popularity, so American manufacturers introduced a series of ...

Dom Toretto may live his life a quarter mile at a time, but you know who doesn't? Drivers in the NHRA's Top Fuel and Funny Car classes. Organized drag racing has been around since at least the late ...

In 1952, the brilliant Rod & Custom magazine writer Roger Huntington did some math to figure out the quickest possible quarter-mile time drag racers would ever achieve: Just 9.1 seconds at 166 mph. He ...

Image Credit: Miguel Lagoa / Shutterstock.com. The 1960s was the golden age of American muscle, when horsepower was cheap and quarter-mile times were all that mattered. While modern cars have the ...