The 1964 Ford Thunderbolt Was America's First Factory-Built Drag Car . The ... These cars featured race-specific components and lightweight materials that separated them from standard Fairlanes.

For collectors, these cars represent a high-water mark of factory drag racing—a moment in time when the gloves came off and the stopwatches told the whole story. Sources: Classic.com , Hagerty .

The car is still working with most of the same components it had in the 1970's and 1980's, but it was back-dated just a little to have the right old school look.

One thing you can depend on each year at Drag Week is the freak streak that runs through many a Drag Week participant. The 2016 edition is no exception with weird cars, combos and components ...

It's all about the quarter-mile as Chevrolet works to develop drag-race-optimized performance parts for the Camaro. Read more at Car and Driver.

1,350-HP C8 Corvette Drag Car Launches So Hard It Rips Parts Off. The high-horsepower drag racer seemed to have a disagreement with some of its stock components. By Peter Holderith.

Copart largely exists as a salvage auction site, hosting cars that are only worth the literal sum of their parts.It’s the kind of place where you’ll do a double-take if you see, say, a ...

So, for 1972, the drag racing organization allowed small-block V-8s to run in cars with lighter weight breaks than the Bruiser-class muscle machines. It’s just the sort of advantage a mind like ...

It will be offering full rolling chassis racing car complete with a suspension, roll cage, Strange Engineering 9-inch rear axle and drag wheels with Mickey Thompson tires for $89,999. The DC 170 ...