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Ramchargers Speed Shops Shuttered
Gearheads tend to remember the Ramchargers as the southern Michigan club and racing team that fielded a variety of Mopar-powered competition cars in the quarter-mile, from Gassers to Dragsters to Pro...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1924 Ford
T-bucket? No. Dragster? No, not one of those either. If anything, this creation, listed as a 1924 Ford, reminds me a bit of Al Bergler’s More Aggravation competition coupe, but even then, there’s a...
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How’s this for a birthday gift: Two Chrisman dragsters donated to NHRA on its...
What do you get for the 60th anniversary of the organization that’s done the most to legitimize and foster the growth of the sport of drag racing? How about a couple of dragsters? That’s what drag...
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Werewolves beware – the Silver Bullet lives!
I figured it wouldn’t have taken long to identify the streamlined dragster that we plucked from the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool recently, and I was correct: It’s the Silver Bullet, which ran mostly...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Dragster
Conventional drag racing wisdom has the East Coast home to the stockers and super stockers, with the West Coast as the natural habitat of nitro-huffing rail dragsters. Exceptions abound to convention,...
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Four-Links – Airstream caravans, more vintage trailers, Ford painting...
* If you’re into vintage Airstreams, you know the name Wally Byam. Not only was he the founder of the company, according to Men’s Journal, he also organized Airstream caravans to rather exotic places...
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Four-Links – Chevrolets you never knew, Antarctic dragster, Dick Dale’s...
* Mac’s Motor City Garage dug up some of GM’s lesser-known uses of the Chevrolet bowtie, largely out of the United States, including the Brazilian Veraneio above. Heck, the whole article could have...
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Carl Grimes’s 1954 “De Oldsley,” the first NHRA Nationals-qualifying...
Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Somebody’s gotta be the first. And in September 1955 on an old airstrip that once saw B-26 bombers come and go, that somebody was Carl Grimes, who said he just...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Crosley dragster
There’s a long history of using Crosley bodies in dragster builds, as we saw from the Carl Grimes De Oldsley that recently sold at auction, so this 1948 Crosley dragster for sale on Hemmings.com isn’t...
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Art Chrisman, father of the dragster, selected for Petersen’s Lifetime...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. First to break 180 in the quarter-mile. Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club. Builder, mechanic, driver, pioneer, Art Chrisman did it all and he did it...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – Rain for Rent dragster
Ninety-nine percent of the cars and trucks that appear as Hemmings Finds of the Day are probably ninety-nine percent more practical than the Rain for Rent Top Fuel dragster from the mid- to late...
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Dragster pioneer Art Chrisman dies at 86
Photo courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Legendary drag racer, hot rodder, and land-speed racer Art Chrisman – whose dragster set the pattern for many other quarter-mile conquerors and who racked up...
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