The Best of 1970s Drag Racing.Dave Kommel fell in love with drag racing in 1960 as a 10-year-old reading about Don Garlits in Hot Rod Magazine. He went to his first race in Union Grove, WI, in ...

Rated at 450 horsepower, the LS6 made the Chevelle one of the meanest and quickest muscle cars of its time. But is it fast enough for the 1970 Buick GS Stage 1?

Drag racing was gaining in popularity in the early 1960s, and muscle cars were the automakers' attempt to give the people some track performance for the streets.

The 1970s produced some of the most notable drag racing icons of the era, including these five cars that dominated a quarter-mile run with blistering speed.

Nitro-burning hot rods used to speed along two lanes of asphalt on the land where the partially completed The Lake District ...

And this drag race proves that the late 1960s and early 1970s were pretty exciting. On one lane, we have a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS, a classic muscle car that needs to introduction.

Walls was introduced to the sport while attending a boat race in Marble Falls in the 1970s, but it wasn't until recent years he decided to compete himself.

John Haas of Allegan was well aware of the dangers involved in racing drag boats at speeds of nearly 250 miles per hour. But the danger was one aspect that attracted Mr. Haas to the sport. “I ...