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2020 was a very unique year for many and DodgeGarage was no exception. The year started off like any other with major planning of high-octane adven...

The second half of 1959 saw the growing use of parachutes in drag racing, particularly for vehicles that ran over 130 mph. But overall, the lack of...

1959 was an important and jam-packed year for drag racing. For starters, it was the 10th year of drag racing being an organized, legitimized sport ...

A final structure for NHRA races still hadn’t yet been set in 1958. But as Jack Beckman explains, this didn’t cause too many issues. As...

For the world of drag racing, 1957 was a year of big progression. On February 3, 1957, the speed record was broken via a 165.13-mph run. The offici...

Unsurprisingly, the drag racing scene in 1956 looked and operated very differently compared to the sport today. Timing experiments were conducted f...

In 1955, drag racing still had a lot of variety existing within the sport: powerplant options, body styles, fuel choices, etc. But one thing every ...

We’re at the part of hot rod history when most drag strips were running independently under 3 main sanctioning bodies: The NHRA, NASCAR and A...

With hopes to curb illegal street racing, police officers played a large part in showing racers where they could legally race. Of course, those new...

In this episode, Jack Beckman gives insight into where drag racing began in Southern California before it picked up speed and quickly spread across...