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Pro Comp eliminator had all the makings of a marriage that was doomed from the start.

The Pro Comp concept had all the makings of a great concept on paper, but in reality the classification is one that became

Pro Comp was a star destined to shine, a bridge covering the colossal gap which existed between sportsman racing and the nitro-burning division.

The semi-professional division was actually a salve to ease the sting of losing Top Gas eliminator earlier in the season while elevating many of the “overqualified” Comp eliminator entries.

The 1974 season was one where the NHRA was on the edge of the so-called good old days and a new era of corporate involvement. It also became known for the year the NHRA would face the effects of a worldwide energy crisis.

This season also featured the emergence of second-year Top Fuel phenom Gary Beck and the introduction of U.S. Army sponsorship with Don Prudhomme.

Before 1974, the season champion was determined by the winner of the World Finals event.

Storytellers, the entertaining series created by the producers of Legends: The Series, allows drag racing's legends to tell their stories of the good old days for drag racing.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop, and when the IHRA decided to run a race on the pit road at Pocono Raceway, a rainout turned out to be the devil for Paul Gant.

Understand that Pat Musi and Roy Hill these days are not the same people they were back in the late 1970s. With the race rained out and no place to work on their cars during the torrential downpours, a handful of the Mountain Motor Pro Stock racers engaged in a friendly fire extinguisher war. All's fair in love and war, and when it comes to pranking, the Musi and Hill pairing was as brutal as it got.

We'll let you know; this one is on the edge of our PG-13 standard but you will die laughing if you can envision the situation.

The second year of the NHRA World Finals at Orange County International Raceway produced this gem. Sit back and watch as NHRA championships were clinched by Shirley Muldowney, Frank Hawley and the late Lee Shepherd. Enjoy the golden tones of Dave McClelland and Steve Evans as they call the action.

Take a trip back in time when two of the three professional divisions had championships go down to the wire. This coverage appeared on NBC's Sportsworld, one of three sports variety shows which thrived before the advent of 24-hour sports cable television shows.

In Top Fuel, Shirley Muldowney had to fight off multiple drivers for a chance to win her second NHRA championship at the final race hosted by Ontario Motor Speedway.

The race coverage was broken down into two episodes with one focusing on Top Fuel and the other on Funny Car and Pro Stock. This second part of the video features the historic Pro Stock championship battle between Bob Glidden and the late Lee Shepherd. Ron Colson wins in his final Funny Car race.

NHRA national event racing for 1978 came to a dramatic conclusion this past weekend with the running of the 14th annual Winston World Finals. It was excitement galore at Ontario Motor Speedway: performance-wise, final-round drama-wise, and everything else-wise. It was a picture-perfect finish for the stellar '78 drag racing season, one that the spectators, racers, officials, and manufacturers will long remember.

The NHRA Winston Professional titles in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock might have been sewed up long before the World Finals, but that didn't take anything away from stellar pro action. Rob Bruins, fresh off his Fallnationals triumph, put Gaines Markley's potent mount back in the Top Fuel winner's circle when performance star Gary Beck had trouble on the line. Raymond Beadle annexed the Funny Car crown, stopping Tom McEwen in the final. And in Pro Stock, well Bob Glidden kept his undefeated string alive with his Ford Fairmont by topping Larry Lombardo. - Dave Densmore

Travel back in time to 1979, a season which began a transition of NHRA Winston Drag Racing from the largely independent professional drag racing towards corporate backing. You'll see the greats like Don Prudhomme, Shirley Muldowney and Bob Glidden. But one of the finest moments is in seeing the beautiful Showtime Corvette of Tom Hoover proving that looks can win.

Storytellers, the entertaining series created by the producers of Legends: The Series, allows drag racing's legends to tell their stories of the good old days for drag racing. 

In this episode, Billy Meyer tells about the time getting burned in a Funny Car during the Montreal race in 1977 was the least of his worries. Waco Willie found out just how treacherous getting Connie Kalitta to fly you to the burn hospital could be. Sit back as Billy tells how he cheated death twice in one weekend.

It's the California Hot Rod Reunion, the final stop on the 2022 NHRA Heritage Series. This annual tradition every season to Bakersfield, CA., brings out the best AA/FD and AA/FC competition and everything down the line in terms of nostalgia competition. Thanks to our coverage partners at DragRacerTV, we will bring you the event from start to finish. 

Long before he became a talented Pro Stock driver or a street-legal drag racing champion. or an nitrous-injected, electronic fuel injected engine building phenom, Pat Musi was. a kid who worked his way up the ladder from Modified Production.

In this never before seen footage, Musi and Legends: The Series producer Bobby Bennett sat down for a reaction video from some old 8-mm videos rescued from the back of the shop in Carteret, New Jersey.

They had just wrapped up shooting for an upcoming episode of the series and spent some time reliving the good old days. There's some insightful information, wise cracks and a general good time.