There's a dragstrip in Maine, just a few miles south of Bangor, called Winterport Dragway. It has the flavor of the hundreds of regional strips that once covered the country, and it's doing its best ...

The career of drag racer Wally Booth is a David vs. Goliath story that evokes the mystique of early Pro Stock racing, a place where heroes were born of talent, intelligence, hard work, and integrity.

The sheer idea of building a (drag) monster out of an AMC Gremlin, a vehicle that was introduced as an inexpensive response to subcompact imports back in 1970s, is ridiculous, which is why such ...

At first, few took it seriously, but once it hit the strip and started shattering records, this purposely-built drag car became a fan favorite among the muscle car crowd. The American Motors ...

Historians may have consigned Pontiac and American Motors Corporation (AMC) to the history books, but fans of both car brands are keeping the spirit alive and putting the classics through their paces ...

The main point of the Golden Age of American Muscle was to produce cars that could blow the doors off of other cars. Detroit didn't crank out fast cars just so they would be driven responsibly, and ...

Burnouts. Hot rods. Hemis. Horsepower. The smell of racing fuel. Trophy girls. Drag racing back in the day wasn’t polished or corporate — it was raw, loud, and rebellious. From two friends squaring ...

The Pinetree Jamboree resurrects nostalgic heads-up flathead racing at one of New England’s oldest surviving historic drag strips.