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Nostalgia drag racing is a form of drag racing that uses cars from earlier eras of drag racing, as well as cars built to fit the guidelines of earlier eras using parts that would have been available in that era. The cars raced are a mixture between restored originals, while others are re-creations of older cars. [1]
The class recreates the style of drag racing very popular in the 1960s with drivers like Ronnie Sox, Dick Landy, Butch Leal and Judy Lilly. NSS's roots go back to the early 1980s, when retired Super Stock racers Dave Duell, Arlen Vanke and others started exhibition racing 1960s style Super Stock at nostalgia racing events. The popularity of the ...
The Wally Parks NHRA Nostalgia Nationals, formerly known as the National Hot Rod Reunion, is a gathering of nostalgia drag racers, street rodders and automotive enthusiasts. It is run by the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum and based on the California Hot Rod Reunion .
Finding subjects on the drag strip. Stenberg had a passing interest in drag racing — he had watched races a couple of times at the Woodburn Dragstrip — before making documentaries about the ...
None of these four-wheel designs bore fruit; the development of tires designed specifically for drag racing made four wheels unnecessary. In keeping with the austere nature of a dragster, the heavy cranking motor and battery needed to start the engine were two of the items removed to save weight, requiring that the dragster be push-started.
The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly a "nostalgia drag racing" event. In the 2000s, "Saturday Nitro" events featured Fuel altereds then switched to nostalgia funny cars around 2010. After a driver died in an on-track hit on the guardrail, they stopped hosting these non-sanctioned events.
The now-defunct Nostalgia Drag Racing Association began promoting the March Meet from 1989, but failed to attract enough competitors or spectators to remain viable though ran it anyway. The March Meet continued as a "nostalgia drag race" in 1994 under sanction by the Goodguys Vintage Racing Association.
The automotive nostalgia cycle has finally reached the 1990s. After two full decades of American companies building enthusiast-focused lineups around the greatest badges of the 60s and 70s, this ...