I give today’s nostalgia drag racing a solid D-. This is exactly what happened to the original NHRA Funny Car class in the early ’80s. The bodies became so streamlined, the make and model of ...

Today's Nostalgia cars have the body models and ... where they sit behind the cockpit like beer kegs. See All 69 Photos Funny Car bodies have been fiberglass for a long time, but today's are ...

Back in 1997, Nathan Bugg and his father, Bugsy, debuted their first Funny Car, which then competed in the Nostalgia Eliminator 1 class. The team's newest car is a classic Monza body painted by ...

Along with Ed Vanderwoude, Rupert bought Dale Pulde's rolling chassis and an Olds Cutlass ... "He was trying to convince people that the Nostalgia Funny Cars were a lot of fun." ...

This is the body of the Red Dragon nostalgia funny car Tom Padilla used to race, which explains the altered proportions. But why is it separated from the rest of the vehicle? The question above ...

Drag racer Ron Capps never met Einstein, but he goes pretty fast, 300-plus mph several times every weekend in his nitro-powered Funny Car ... While the body is all nostalgia, the chassis and ...

bringing with it both modern incarnations of the high powered funny cars, and nostalgia versions which harken back to the days of Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Ed “The Ace” McCulloch.

Hale said he is running his Nostalgia Funny Car up to five times this season ... before aerodynamics came into play and the bodies became rounded and they had huge spoilers on the back," Hale ...

Martina is out at the Sacramento Raceway — 5305 Excelsior Rd. North of Jackson Hwy — hanging out with the drivers participating in the Funny Car Fever Nostalgia Reunion drag race event at ...

aside from being the only owner of a Nostalgia Funny Car in the state of Utah, has raced cars as a hobby since he was a young man. It started with his father, Lawrence Stanger, racing his 1956 ...