It was a warm, sticky summer afternoon at Maryland’s Capitol Drag Raceway back in the mid-1970s. I was fresh out of high school when a ’63 Chevy II roared up into the staging lanes for a smoky stage.

With 500-inch big-blocks and nitrous oxide, mega horsepower and torque have become easy targets to hit. Combine that power with sticky DOT-legal tires or slicks, and the strain on axles and rearends ...

In the 1970s there was a show on TV called the "Six Million Dollar Man." As the story goes, some poor astronaut crashed his ship upon reentry to earth and was "barely alive." The doctors took the near ...