People lost their minds. Tim Reed's '79 Pinto hooked up on 275s, threw chunks of drag radial at the burnout box, and blasted through the quarter-mile traps at 8.02 seconds and more than 171 mph—and ...

This particular hare-brained idea came during a recent visit to the Zimmerman Automobile Driving Museum, my favorite go-to for surprise-and-delight cars. I was surprised and delighted to find one of ...