Volunteer workers were busy Thursday sprucing up downtown Utica in advance of Saturday’s Gasoline Alley car show and swap meet. About 300 cars, including hot rods, race cars, vintage dragster… ...

This 1955 Thunderbird looks like a vintage Top Fuel dragster. The kind that Don Garlits would drive on his way to new ET and trap speed records ...

Two engines on one drag-racing car? There are multiple ways to put them together, achieving high speeds even though it's hard ...

The fastest class in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag-racing series, a top-fuel dragster can rocket to 300 mph in less than 4 seconds. We look inside one of these cars to expose the ...

The first-generation Chevrolet Chevelle wasn't exactly a popular platform for drag racers, but some of these cars were converted for track use back in the 1960s. This 1965 Malibu SS model is proof ...

The guy converted it into a small-block gas dragster, and somewhere along the line the car was wrecked, bending up the front end.

We’ve dug deep into the archives for today’s random video. In glorious HD it isn’t. But it's well worth a minute of your time. Back in the sixties, men with melon-sized man-plums would strap ...

This is where it all started, Johnson said, and he and more than 60 vintage dragsters and their drivers and crews will pay tribute to those early days at the Nitro Revival weekend, Sept. 29-30, at ...

We see jet dragsters often during exhibitions, but rarely do you see a jet turbine spinning the rear wheels of a dragster these days. Plus, the driver stares down the exhaust port of the jet ...

Veteran drag racing fans can remember when the grandstands were filled on Sundays at the now-defunct Niagara Dragway. Thousands of fans watched cars classified as “gassers” race down the ...

John Mazmanian was a giant in drag racing circles in a bygone era. But his mark is still on the sport, and his death is mourned by many, writes Bill Stephens.