As far as Ted Guth knows, there are only a few drag racing nostalgia cars in the metro area. Of these, only three are funny cars burning nitro fuel. One is the latest version of legendary local racer ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Martina is out at the Sacramento Raceway — ...

Funny Cars are taking over the world-or so it would seem judging by the crowd at the nearly rained out 52nd March Meet drags at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. It was 2010 but looked like, say, 1973 judging ...

“This car we started running in 2019,” Alex says of the unsponsored “Hot 4 Teacher” Top Fuel Funny Car. “I raced Nostalgia Funny Car for about 10 years before that.” And in case you’re wondering, Alex ...

Gary Densham is racing in the past with an eye on the future. The veteran drag racer will watch today as his son Steven, 28, takes over driving his “Teacher’s Pet” nostalgia Funny Car in the NHRA Hot ...

If finding a third-generation Plymouth GTX hidden in a bard sounds like a dream to you, the's a serious chance you might want to find out more about the goodie we have here. This is the body of the ...

Einstein said that if you go fast enough you’ll eventually go back in time. Or was it that time would slow down? Drag racer Ron Capps never met Einstein, but he goes pretty fast, 300-plus mph several ...

At 63 years of age, longtime Funny Car driver Gary Densham isn't quite ready to hand the keys to the newest family hot rod over to his son. The elder Densham, who has been competing on the NHRA ...

Nostalgia drag races, sponsored by the Goodguys Vintage Racing Assn. for pre-1980 equipment, conjures visions of old geezers in top-fuel dragsters and funny cars restored and refurbished from backyard ...

This is a race car. It has everything it needs and nothing it doesn't. It doesn't resemble your Camaro in any way. It swills exotic nitromethane by the gallon. It is a self-contained capsule that ...

Travis Shumake is the son of former NHRA Funny Car driver Tripp Shumake, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1999. At 36, Travis Shumake hopes to become the first openly gay driver in the NHRA ...