As a guideline, Petersen Publishing discouraged the use of wreck and fire photos in the publications for some obvious reasons. No one likes to burn down his race car or scare the kids with a rollover, ...

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 ...

The main point of the Golden Age of American Muscle was to produce cars that could blow the doors off of other cars. Detroit didn't crank out fast cars just so they would be driven responsibly, and ...

Gas Ronda, a star of the 1960s drag racing circuits in Southern California and a member of the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, died Wednesday in Palm Desert. He was 91. Ronda died in his Palm ...

Pam Hardy, the iconic figure who became a drag racing icon for her role in backing up the legendary "Jungle" Jim Liberman and his iconic Funny Cars, hasn't missed a step. Hardy, who in four years of ...

Ford and Chevrolet have been going against each other since the early days of the automobile. Nowadays, it's mostly about tow ratings and all-electric range, but back in the 1960s, these Detroit-based ...

While not as iconic as the Camaro and the Chevelle, the Chevrolet Nova developed into a highly competitive muscle car in the late 1960s. Available with both the 350- and 396-cubic-inch (5.7- and ...

Among the best channels for old Montana footage on YouTube is that of user Woody Woodford. Much of the channel is filled with amateur movies of drag racing in the 1960s and 1970s, including footage ...