Don Nicholson is drag racing's answer to Rip Van Winkle. He's cut more lights, raced on more outlaw strips, and won more races since he started driving Don Blair's sprinter back in the late '40s than ...

Around the HOT ROD office he's known as "The Carb Whisperer," not just because Steve Brul can tweak the fuel-metering device like no other, but because he has a knack for hitting the abort button on ...

I’ll never forget my first drag race. It was the 1971 NHRA Winternationals. I lived a block away from the south entrance of the Fairplex in Pomona, where the season-opening event took place, so it was ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, ...