A mere 73 years ago local legend the late C.J. "Pappy" Hart in Santa Ana, California, created the first drag strip. Yes, there had been other strips here and there before that, but those were ...

We kids who grew up dreaming drag racing dreams, and later came to write about our favorite sport, are fortunate. The very men who gave us drag racing, the world's first all-American motorsport, are ...

Willie Walter "Pee Wee" Wallace had two passions: his family and his dragsters. In the 1950s, '60s and '70s, he drove in thousands of races at hundreds of drag strips, traveling the East Coast from ...

Introduced in 1949 and built until 1999, the 88 is one of Oldsmobile's longest-running and most iconic nameplates. It was the company's most profitable line from 1950 until 1974, and it's famous for ...

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 ...