When J.B. Bracken needed a tow vehicle to haul his awesome land-speed-racing (LSR) bikes back from the 2-mile traps at the Bonneville salt flats, he wanted to do so in style—namely, with a ...

The sport of drag racing saw its first 200-mph pass in the quarter-mile on August 1, 1964, at Island Dragway (Great Meadows, New Jersey) when Don "Big Daddy'' Garlits drove his Swamp Rat VI dragster ...