Nostalgia drag racing started in the late 80's when a few old racers pulled their front-engine dragsters and funny cars out of their barns and garages and decided to fire them up to run them down the drag strip once again. Today, you can find nostalgia drag racing events from coast-to-coast run by organizations, groups, tracks along with the NHRA and IHRA. Nostalgia drag racing is gaining in popularity and there are many nostalgia drag racing teams trying to preserve the vehicles and racing culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
In 2008, in support of Nostalgia drag racing, NHRA Museum started the Hot Rod Heritage Series, which has races across the U.S. with most of the points races on the West Coast. The "Cacklefest is something to behold. The old push starts down the return road like the old days, flames shooting high out of the zoomies. The smell of nitro in the air everywhere.
The March Meet is the biggest sporting event in California every March. Despite the current recession, there is still record attendance as Nostalgia drag racing is one of the only sports that continues to grow.
In Marion, Ohio in August of each year is the largest gathering of old-school blown alcohol nostalgia funny cars at the Marion County Nostalgia Funny Car Nationals.
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2010 Marion County's Nostalgia Funny Car Nationals
Famous quotes containing the words drag racing, nostalgia, drag and/or racing:
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)
“Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)