When you look at the mega-complicated, mega-buck operations that take place these days for Top Fuel Nitromethane cars to run sub-4-second 1,000-foot passes at well over 300 mph, it's easy to forget ...

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 ...

Drag racing was just another fun part of everyday life for kids growing up in California. I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley during the 1950s through the 1960s and it seemed like almost every other ...