In 1960, Doug Cook returned to Detroit driving Howard's (cam grinder Howard Johansen) orange "eight-cycle" Special Forty Willys that blew off Sam Gellner's '55 Chevy to take class. Montgomery was a ...

The 1960s were a transformative period for sdrag racing, a time when the sport was still in its raw, unrefined form, far ...

It's powered by a 600-horsepower Chevy 454 V8, and it is, as amazing as it sounds, a Volvo. The term “Gasser” is a reference to a style of drag car that was popular in the late 1950s through the 1960s ...

Big John Mazmanian, a legendary racer and car builder prominent during the “gasser wars” era of Southern California drag racing, died July 21 at 80, at a hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. In the 1960s ...