- Written by webmin
Conventional drag racing wisdom has the East Coast home to the stockers and super stockers, with the West Coast as the natural habitat of nitro-huffing rail dragsters. Exceptions abound to convention, including this Connecticut-based 1963 dragster chassis for sale on Hemmings.com. The tubing comes complete with wheels, body panels, and a name – the Flower […]
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Tagged drag racing, dragster, Flower Child, front-engine dragster, Hemmings Find of the Day, Hemmings Muscle Machines, racing
- Written by webmin
I figured it wouldn’t have taken long to identify the streamlined dragster that we plucked from the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool recently, and I was correct: It’s the Silver Bullet, which ran mostly out of Wisconsin in the mid-1960s, and as we quickly found out, it’s still around, though not in any presentable form. Stan […]
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Tagged aerodynamics, dodge, drag racing, dragster, Hemmings Muscle Machines, homebuilt, racing, Silver Bullet, Stan Johnson
- Written by webmin
What do you get for the 60th anniversary of the organization that’s done the most to legitimize and foster the growth of the sport of drag racing? How about a couple of dragsters? That’s what drag racing collector Bill Lindig recently did when he donated to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum two dragsters campaigned […]
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Tagged Art Chrisman, drag racing, dragster, Hemmings Daily, museums and collections, NHRA, NHRA 60th anniversary, NHRA museum, racing