1950s Vintage Race Cars - Tips & Tricks. Let's Go Racing! Dan Kahn Writer Oct 01, 2003. ... There was a lot more going on in the '50s than poodle skirts, whitewalls, and drag racing.

The 2017 York Nostalgia Weekend Honors the Drag Racing Stars and Cars of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Geoff Stunkard Writer Jul 29, 2017. See All 77 Photos.

A Willys truck built on the same frame as the Willys car was also available, which drag racers scooped up whatever was left in the mid-1950s. In 1941, Ohio-based Willys re-named its car the ...

A Willys truck built on the same frame as the Willys car was also available, which drag racers scooped up whatever was left of in the mid-1950s. In 1941, Ohio-based Willys renamed its car the ...

You know, like a drag race between a 1950s rat rod and a 1980s G-body wagon. In this week's most unlikely straight-line duel, we have a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air going against a 1980s Chevy Malibu ...

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Well, the second classic muscle car taking part in this race is just as hot because it's a 1970 Oldsmobile 442. Much like the GTO, it also came with a powerful V8 as standard, but this Olds is one ...

From 1950-'54, the Carrera PanAmericana, as the endurance race was called, ran the entire length of the highway. It was actually a five-day event broken down into stages with the cars leaving at ...

Can you give us a little history of the midget racing as many drivers went on to win the Indy 500 in the 1950s in Indy cars. Thanks much, Kathy M., retired and now living in St. Augustine, FL. A ...

It finished sixth in the Sebring 12 Hours race and then came second in the Mille Miglia, a daunting 1,000-mile road race in Italy. The car was then returned to the factory where the engine size ...