I haven’t featured many drag cars in comparison to other build styles on this site, but Slinky from Red Victor 1 Racing over in the UK sent me the teams latest build and I knew it deserved a post. This style of drag car is usually the domain of American builders who focus their attention [...]
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Tags: drag, drag racing, red victor 1 racing, twin turbo, V8, vauxhall, victor 
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I just saw this link get posted on Ratsun a moment ago and knew I had to tee it up for a feature. A Datsun 510/Bluebird coupe gets the full drag treatment over in Japan, with a tube frame chassis, massive slicks taking up the whole rear end, and a potent straight 6 L-series finished [...]
Posted in Build Threads Tags: 1600, 1800, 510, bluebird, coupe, datsun, drag, drag racing, japan, tube frame 4 Comments »
Karey emailed me his tough as nails TA22 Celica, powered by one of Toyota’s best, the mighty 2JZ. Built in true drag racing fashion, it features all the trademarks of a straight-line racer, like a tubbed rear end with 4-link, Weld Racing wheels, and a Ford 9″ diff, textbook stuff. It looks like the car [...]
Chris, a fellow Aussie & VW enthusiast, emailed me this build a while ago. It’s the restoration of a late 60′s/early 70′s front engine dragster being rebuilt at his fathers workshop. Chris tells me that in the drag racing community this is known as a “Cackle Car”, a car which although not competitively raced, is [...]
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