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At 6Sixty Street’s Pre-72 class, there’s one rule that never bends: if your muscle car wasn’t built before 1972, it doesn’t line up — and if it can’t drive itself to the start line, it doesn’t race at all. No trailers, no tow rigs, no exceptions. It’s a throwback that turned a grassroots meetup into 44 minutes of Nova-on-Nova rematches and one Ford truck nobody saw coming.

Forty-nine of the fastest small-tire cars in the country lined up at Darana Raceway chasing a $12,000 purse, and the results didn’t go the way anyone expected. ProTreeVideos captured the entire King of Columbus Backside Battle from the pit walk through the finals, including an upset that had the comment section arguing for days. No-prep racing rewards driver skill over raw horsepower, and this event proved exactly why. Watch to see which cars actually made it to the winner’s circle.

Brown County Dragway’s eighth-mile is narrow enough and beat up enough that grass grows between the lanes — and once a year, the fastest small-tire no-prep cars in the country race there anyway, often past sunrise. This year’s War in the Woods XIV coverage from 1320video doubles as a tribute to a community figure the crew clearly lost, and includes a Fox-body-versus-Firebird finish fans are still arguing about. Watch to see why this event has no real competitor.

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