Nowadays, professional drag racing is all about top-fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, but back in the classic era, it was production vehicles launching off the line. The cars were souped up for the ...

The technology behind a both an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car is stunning ... (Cory McClenathan put the drag-racing world back in its traditional orbit at the second specialty race ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car ... making drag racing a profession. That is without making the leap up to Top Fuel or Funny Car ...

As you'll find with cars like this 1972 Mach 1, it's very possible to get classic Mustang thrills ... And that's not all; you'll find plenty of drag racing accouterments around the rest of the ...

One states it was coined by an announcer who thought the drag-racing stock cars looked "funny." Another (backed by racing historian Leo Levine) gives credit to the head of Mercury's racing ...

Southern California drag racing legend John Force ... LA's News Headlines newsletter. John Force Racing teammate Austin Prock won Sunday's Funny Car division, topping Bob Tasca III in the final ...

BILLINGS — The Menholt Classic, featuring the Hocus Pocus jet funny car on Saturday, is this weekend at Yellowstone Drag Strip. Free spectator tickets are available at Denny Menholt Chevrolet ...

The 2-time defending World Champion of Funny Car drag racing also jumped into the NHRA Funny Car season points lead just before he won the final elimination round at Bristol, TN. CBS 8's John ...

Drag racing legend John Force, 75, had a catastrophic malfunction in his Funny Car at full noise in the first round of the NHRA Virginia Nationals on Sunday. Force was taken to a hospital where he ...