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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 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 project was code named Project Pacers. It was built to participate in the popular nostalgia Cacklefest events that take place around the country. The car won the "Best Original Race Car" award presented by Mirabella Guitars at Raceway Park's 2010 Nostalgia Sumernationals and Funny Car Reunion at Englishtown, NJ July 25, 2010.
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.
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 ...
Top Fuel Funny Car saw a sixteen-car field, but stars including Danny Ongais, "Dyno Don" Nicholson, Roger Lindamood, "Jungle Jim" Liberman, and Jack Chrisman, along with Della Woods and Charlie Allen, failed to qualify. [4]
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 hunt to find rare car photos of early prototypes, hidden for decades, just got a little easier. Merry Christmas. ... The site wowed collectors, gearheads and nostalgia junkies. During the ...