In late July, the NHRA —under the new leadership of recently appointed President Peter Clifford — made a very significant announcement with regards to the future of its Pro Stock category. First of ...

A local Southern California drag enthusiast, Larry Mollicone of Bill's Garage, built this stout 366 Chevy engine. The Boss 351 Ford engine is the basis for the construction of the stroked 366 Ford ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, ...

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 ...

Randi Lyn Butner has rewritten the record books in drag racing, becoming the first driver to break the elusive 3-second barrier in the Extreme Pro Stock category. This milestone feat happened on ...

Team owner Harry Melling won a NASCAR Cup championship with Bill Elliott in 1988. These days, Harry's son Mark Melling is getting his racing fix and collecting trophies not in NASCAR, but in the NHRA ...

This summer, word spread through the drag-racing community that six-time NHRA Pro Stock champion Erica Enders would be leaving the class and moving into a Top Fuel dragster. Enders told WFO Radio's ...

When Jegs transitioned from a family-owned company to an investment group controlling the reins in 2021, the aftermarket high-performance auto parts company’s involvement in the NHRA Pro Stock Class ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...