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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 popularity of the class evolved into a category of drag racing with hundreds of cars and drivers competing in Championship series, and large nostalgia drag racing events. The spirit of NSS drag racing has the same models of cars that raced Super Stock between 1959 and 1969—but with certain safety equipment updates. [1]
The history of automobiles and motorcycles being used for drag racing is nearly as long as the history of ... and nostalgia vehicles. The Nostalgia Drag Racing League ...
History [ edit ] The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters essentially a production car chassis with a "souped-up" engine.
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.
Goodguys has been the leading promoter of vintage or nostalgia style drag racing competition since their first such vintage drag race, [citation needed] held in April 1989 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. From 1994 through 2006 Goodguys staged the West Coast Championship Series which at the time was America's premier points circuit ...
Pacers Auto, Inc.® was a popular, record-setting drag racing team in the early 1950s and 1960s. Based in Oceanside , New York on Long Island , The Pacers' " Snizek & Dodge Racing Team " made up of co-owners George Snizek as driver, and Charlie Dodge as tuner, were favored by fans and feared by competitors.