Introduced in 1963, the Pontiac GTO is widely regarded as America's first true muscle car, but that's not exactly accurate since some carmakers offered high-power cars as early as the 1950s. Still, ...

Long before corporate sponsorships and wind-tunnel aerodynamics, drag racing was raw, dangerous, and fiercely personal. The ...

Pace cars were a big deal in the golden muscle car era. Not only because they set the pace at iconic races like the Indy 500 but also because many of them morphed into limited-edition production ...

We’re headed back to the drag strip, this time with a matchup between a 1974 Chevelle 454 and a 1969 Olds Cutlass W-31. These two machines will line up for three rounds of straight-line racing, but ...

The photo of what remains of Richard Petty's 43 Jr. drag race Barracuda in Ryan Brutt's "Mopars in the Field" story (Aug. 2015) got us hunting the archive for photos of the race car and some ...

In an age where people are comfortable with real lemons in their furniture polish and artificial ones in their lemonade, some things just don't seem right. Thankfully, Pro Stock racing hasn't gone the ...