It never fails; someone comes up with a really cool idea, then someone else has to screw it up to the point that it’s no longer cool. And I hate to say it, but that’s where we are with nostalgia Funny ...

Funny Cars are taking over the world-or so it would seem judging by the crowd at the nearly rained out 52nd March Meet drags at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. It was 2010 but looked like, say, 1973 judging ...

As far as Ted Guth knows, there are only a few drag racing nostalgia cars in the metro area. Of these, only three are funny cars burning nitro fuel. One is the latest version of legendary local racer ...

Race cars develop in fits and spurts. Only rarely can an innovation be traced back to one specific person, although often it's whoever first won with a new idea that gets credit for it. The modern ...

The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion opened its three-day run on Friday at Famoso Dragstrip in impressive fashion with the quickest eight qualifiers in Nostalgia Funny Car history.

They are called “funny cars,” but when you watch the speed with which they get down the quarter-mile at New England Dragway, you can’t help but take them seriously. The Funny Cars Under the Stars ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Martina is out at the Sacramento Raceway — ...

Nostalgia drag races, sponsored by the Goodguys Vintage Racing Assn. for pre-1980 equipment, conjures visions of old geezers in top-fuel dragsters and funny cars restored and refurbished from backyard ...

Einstein said that if you go fast enough you’ll eventually go back in time. Or was it that time would slow down? Drag racer Ron Capps never met Einstein, but he goes pretty fast, 300-plus mph several ...

Gary Densham is racing in the past with an eye on the future. The veteran drag racer will watch today as his son Steven, 28, takes over driving his “Teacher’s Pet” nostalgia Funny Car in the NHRA Hot ...

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