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Filmed at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey on March 13, 2016, this Street Wars footage captures American muscle going grudge-race to grudge-race against import tuner cars in front of a rowdy trackside crowd. With over 19,000 views, the video has become something of a time capsule now that Englishtown’s storied drag strip has since shut its doors for good. Commenters still argue over who really won the night, and mourn a track that can never host another race.
Shot at the historic Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, this amateur upload from daredevil7442 captures a lineup of Hemi and big-block Mopar muscle running the quarter mile at one of the East Coast’s most storied drag strips. It’s grassroots drag racing rather than a professional NHRA broadcast, but the track underneath these cars has hosted some of the sport’s biggest names for decades. Watch to see American muscle running down a strip with genuine drag racing pedigree.
Ford built roughly 50 genuine Cobra Jet Mustangs in each limited run since reviving the nameplate in 2008 – and every one of them was designed to run a specific index number, not chase outright records. This car left that rulebook behind entirely, pulling 1,400 horsepower from just 305 cubic inches of supercharged Coyote. Read on for how the outlaw racing scene around cars like this got started, and why a small-block ended up making numbers Ford never advertised.