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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 cubic inch displacement of the engines in Nostalgia Super Stock is not a tech item, and motors as large as 620 cubic inches (10 L) has these cars running as quick as 8-seconds in the quarter ...
The cars raced are a mixture between restored originals, while others are re-creations of older cars. [1] Today, nostalgia drag racing events are held in the United States from coast-to-coast run by organizations, groups, tracks along with the NHRA and IHRA. Nostalgia drag racing is gaining in popularity as the original drag racers become old.
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.
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. These early dragsters were nicknamed "rails", due to the ...
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.
Grumpy's Toys: The Authorized History of Grumpy Jenkins' Cars is an authorized biography of drag racing legend Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, with Jenkins himself writing the book's foreword. [ 1 ] The book was written by author Doug Boyce, who has also written the book Junior Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan .
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The Fremont Dragstrip was a racing venue for dragster automobiles that was located in Fremont, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, operating from 1959 until the end of In its final years, it was part of Baylands Raceway Park .