I n the '60s, the muscle car era was in full swing, bringing huge power to everyday models, meaning you didn't need a second specially-prepared race car for a trip to the drag strip on the weekend.

Bob Lee was there to race his 1932 Chevy-powered Ford coupe the day Miami- Hollywood Motorsports Park opened in 1966. “And I’ll be there racing the same car the night it closes,” Lee says.

Vintage drag racing (and a little bit of propaganda) Search. News; ... Watch '60s vintage local drag-racing gold. ... Wesley Wren has spent his entire life around cars, ...

From 19671969, Roger Johnson and his younger brother Gene drag raced "Sweet Thang," this 1928 Ford Model A roadster. A serious injury forced Roger to give up racing after only three years, and the ...

Every one of 'em. The soft guys pretty quickly found a way to turn racing clubs into car-show crowds, but by the early '60s, even pop culture told everyone that flogging the throttle was way more ...

Street-car culture went legit in the 1950s and 1960s, as drag racing spread from California to the rest of the country. Ohio quickly became a hotbed for it -- in part because it was central to the ...

I think his quarter-mile performance claims are off, but it’s still cool to see these two cars lined up for a drag race. The female hostess agreed to a bet that would have her washing the 60s ...

The McLaren F1 supercar and Tesla Model S P85D sedan can both do 0 to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds. But they're not fast, not really. Not when there's an electric car that will do 0 to 60 in less than 2 ...

In the United States, drag racing began as an underground pastime on the dry lake beds of California, and by the 1930s, quarter-mile speeds were topping 100 mph. Things got more organized and ...