Nothing embodies the “Wild West” spirit of the early days of organized drag racing like front engine dragsters. These often beautiful, usually unruly, and always exciting machines dominated mid-century American dragstrips and were almost always the fastest cars at whatever drag event they happened to be at. Think of them as the grandfather to the modern Top Fuel dragster. But what made them so dangerous and why did they fall out of favor to the rear engine dragsters? Read more about it here 👉 h

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