Dragster Baseball T-Shirts

Hot cartoon top fuel rail dragster race car illustration, long sleek and bold blue, popping a wheelie, huge engine blowing flames, very cool design for every car guy and gal.

Junior Dragster Drag Racing Skull Pistons Spark Plugs

Slingshot dragsters of SO-CAL! Bring the speed!

A dragster is a specialized competition automobile used in drag racing. Dragsters, also commonly called “diggers,” can be broadly placed in three categories, based on the fuel they use: gasoline, methanol, and nitromethane. They are most commonly single-engined, though twin-engined and quad-engined designs did race in the 1950s and 1960s. The design of dragsters evolved from the front-engined rail (named for the exposed frame rails) of the earliest days of drag racing, into the “slingshot” (with the driver between or behind the rear tires, or “slicks”) of the early to middle 1960s, to the modern type common in the 1970s. Depending on the class they run in, dragsters can be injected or supercharged (or turbocharged).

Junior Dragster Drag Racing Jr Dragster

Junior Dragster Drag Racing

Yeah that Badditude Dragster with a lot of Attitude is ripping up the landscape with its Elevens stretching down the lane right past your house! And the noise!!! Some say it's a Clean Machine but we all know it's Bad to the Bone. Wear your colors with pride and let everyone know where you're coming from and just how far you're willing to go to win with that competition Badditude of Attitude! ~;0) VivaChas!

The Dork Knight

Featuring the famous tophat and trains!

Slingshot Dragsters are ultrua cool! Vintage but SUPER FAST!

Dragster race car

Huge chrome American style V8 drag racing muscle car hot rod motor with a six pack set of carburetors, blower, drag racing exhaust pipes, tons of chrome, cartoon vector illustration

Drag racing was a far different motorsport back in 1967, when construction concluded on the original quarter-mile. "Supertrack,"a ground up drag strip project funded by a hard-to-believe budget of over $1,000,000. In 1967, drag racing was still struggling to shuck its notorious public image as weekend recreation for juvenile delinquents wearing the inevitable black leather jackets and greasy jeans, but OCIR worked to change those perceptions by building a best-in-class facility that would soon play host to some of the top racing events in the country, including the PDA Championships where legendary drivers and their notorious cars brought the thunder to Orange County.

A collage of a few hot rod and muscle car cartoon illustrations. The perfect design for every car guy and gal.

Who ya gonna race?

This Pennsylvania-based performance legend started out as a maker of motor mounts for engine swaps and floor-shifters back in 1958, but they steadily expanded their product line through the 1960s. Hurst wheels, Line/Loc, and Swifter Shifter gloves were developed among other items, and later, Airheart Brakes and the Schiefer Manufacturing Company, which made clutches and other driveline components, were acquired. Hurst Performance floor-shifters were skillfully engineered, reliable and stirring in appearance, plus, their marketing was in tune with the times, catering to the flourishing muscle car movement of the 1960s. Their shifters infiltrated the drag racing, stock car racing, off-road racing and many other areas of motorsports.

Awesome old school 1957 style hotrod, low and mean, lots of chrome, candy apple red paint, American muscle car cartoon vector illustration

vintage speed shop

Just A Girl Who Loves Junior Dragster

Very cool collection of American hot rods, muscle cars and classic cars. Highly detailed cartoon illustrations, lots of chrome, fire, smoke and power, the greatest eras in automobile history represented in this fun collage. The perfect design for every car guy and gal.

Awesome old school fifties style station wagon, popping a wheelie, huge chrome engine, three carburetors, flames pouring from the exhaust pipes, classic muscle car cartoon vector illustration perfect for every car enthusiast

The coolest bicycle of all time? We think so!

Very cool detailed vector illustration cartoon of a custom hot rod muscle car, popping a wheelie, huge chrome engine, diamond plate background, grungy distressed vintage look, with the words Speed Shop Hot Rod & Muscle Car Parts and Service, sharp graphic for every car enthusiast

The Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout

Junior Dragster Born To Race Built To Win

I never dabbled in the area of drag racing... but this was an awesome big tire car.

Most longtime drag racing fans are familiar with the ultra-swoopy Wonder Wagon Vega that he debuted at the 1973 U.S. Nationals, and some may even remember that the sponsorship program actually began with a completely different team at the end of the 1972 season. The Wonder Wagon was one of the most popular funny cars ever fielded amongst fans, but it’s driver frequently stated that it was the most dangerous too, mainly due to the car’s aerodynamics, or lack thereof. Dangerous or not, the cars and the sponsor was something different, and these bread truck inspired wagons really resonated with race fans.

Just ride.

Cartoon dragster

This World War II era airfield was located ten miles north of Green Cove Springs off of U. S. Highway 17 opened up in 1960. Drag races were held on the northern east-west asphalt runway of the Fleming Island Naval Outer Landing Field and was named after the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft that flew out of the base. The track was back-lit by two big WWII surplus searchlights that would go from idle to full light when the cars staged. Starting was by a liberated traffic light hanging across the track, so no Chrondek type tree here. Races were first every Sunday, but later in 1961, changed to the first and third Sunday.

Just ride.

Awesome old school sixties style hotrod, popping a wheelie, huge chrome engine, classic flames custom paint, American muscle car cartoon vector illustration

The early days of drag racing were largely a run what you brung affair, but by 1954, the true dragster shape and form had emerged and was a refinement of the earlier “slingshot” concept. Built using haphazardly assembled tube steel pipes, these cars gained the nickname “rail jobs.” In 1956, Both Scotty Fenn (on the west coast) and Pat Bilbow (on the east coast) decided it was time for a dragster chassis built of quality materials and welded by professionals. Scotty called his new company “Chassis Research, Inc.” and Pat retained his firm’s already established name, Lyndwood Welding Co. and by 1957, both had produced a pro built dragster chassis and both claimed to be the first, though depending on who you ask, that remains up for debate.

Vintage Gratiot Hot Rod Garage Sign bought to you by MotorManiac

Drag Racing in 1960s