How to prepare my car for the dragstrip?

Gee, I wish you could have been there the time I wound up in the walnut orchard as the result of popping a wheelie, so you could have explained to the California Hwy. Patrol officer that it couldn't POSSIBLY have happened!

Daredevil and Commando, you're comparing apples and oranges. Your cars are a LOT heavier, and have a much longer wheelbase, than a '62 early-early A-body car does. How old are you guys? You don't seem to be familiar with the early-early A-body. Maybe you just don't go back far enough to remember them.