We're watching as this 1970 Pontiac GT-37 lines to race against a 1969 Dodge Dart 340. Which of these two lightweight muscle ...

and many of these classic rides were purchased to secure bragging rights at a red light challenge. Drag racing was gaining in popularity in the early 1960s, and muscle cars were the automakers ...

The videographer behind the "Drag Racing and Car Stuff" channel on YouTube loves quarter-mile action and brings us a couple of feisty 'old versus new' races ...

Those old-school, all-muscle beasts have a racing pedigree in particular: American cars following the muscle-car model have excelled at NASCAR and in drag racing. When the first of the 60s and 70s ...

Michael Schafer/Wikimedia Commons Most people think of muscle cars and picture Detroit metal—Chevelles, Chargers, Mustangs.

So, for 1972, the drag racing organization allowed small-block V-8s to run in cars with lighter weight breaks than the Bruiser-class muscle machines. It’s just the sort of advantage a mind like ...

Roots-type blowers — which are different from centrifugal or twin-screw superchargers — frequently dominate the front ends of modified muscle cars and ... used in drag racing typically ...