Tag: Drag Racing

Who needs to see out your drag car when you’ve got a rippin’-huge supercharger and all of the decibels?

With a junkyard 5.3 running boost, this patchwork ’80s three-box coupe can walk away from pretty muscle cars.

A twin-turbo LSX parking-lot drag race to end all parking-lot drag races.

Wheel-lifting Camaro runs huge turbo, blows T-Tops off on test drive Ryan Miller’s fourth-generation Chevrolet Camaro runs hard and while 1320 Video caught Miller running the car at a No Prep Series event, it runs fast enough to need a parachute. Ever the symbol of a seriously potent car, the parachute tips off that this […] More »

This Pontiac can hook: big wheelies for the firechicken. Conventional drag-racing wisdom says something like “Giant wheelies lose races.” Apparently, nobody ever told this racer that, as evidenced by going rounds with his wheelie-popping machine at Kansas International Dragway’s No Prep Mayhem. In his all-black 2000 Pontiac Firehawk, the driver found every minute measure of grip […] More »

Aussies run their big V8 engines hard at Calder Park. While street-style drag racing has gotten huge in the United States, it’s become a bit slower to catch on elsewhere. Maybe most countries’ arcane motoring laws have something to do with that, since they tend to make it hard to build crazy street cars that […] More »

When you gotta go, you gotta go. And we mean going, not ‘going.’ We can’t really condone street racing, at all. However, if you’re going to bomb around the streets in a way that would get you summarily executed in some countries, you should at the very least do so properly fueled. That means not […] More »