Today, HOT ROD Drag Week and events like it around the world test the mettle of street cars through rigorous street drives and daily drag racing. For HOT ROD, it’s five dragstrips in five days with ...

You can tell when the drag racing season is almost over just by looking at one of the cars. The quarters and wheelwells are coated with an inch of spent rubber, bugs hitting it at 200 mph have taken ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

The quickest Chevrolet to storm the quarter mile in the early 1960s did not wear a Corvette badge or a Camaro script. It was a plain-looking full-size Impala hiding one of the rarest engines the brand ...

The general view is that the 1960s muscle car era kicked off with Pontiac's 1964 introduction of the GTO. The GTO would spark a revolution across Detroit's automakers, putting the youth market in its ...