The future

Hot rodding and drag racing and “muscle cars” are bigger now than ever before. The big three are all putting out factory cars with over 600 hp. In the street racing scene you are a nobody unless you are pushing 1000+ hp. Drag racers and drag racing channels have over 1,000,000 subscribers on YouTube. The stands are packed at radial races and no prep races. Test and tune night gets a bigger turnout than 10k bracket races.

It’s not old men throwing twin turbos on their LS powered cars. It’s not old men staying out street racing until after the sun comes up. It isn’t old men making 1320 video and Cletus McFarland into YouTube millionaires. The horsepower wars and drag strip wars going on right now are arguably bigger than they were in the 60s. I’ve been around drag racing and hot rodding for a long time. Back in the 90s things were not looking good and a lot of old timers thought the hobby would be dead in 20 years and now it’s bigger than ever.

Guys have been racing since the beginning of time. Weather it was on foot, on horses, in chariots, in boats, in Henry j gassers, or blown hemi’s. In 1000 years we might all be flying around in jets or driving electric cars but you know there is going to be a group of kids in a garage trying to make their junk faster than the other guys.