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Here Are Ten Of The Best Drag Cars On eBay For Less Than $15,000
Here Are Ten Of The Best Drag Cars On eBay For Less Than $15,000-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:44

Are you that special kind of car enthusiast that doesn't require your car to do things like turn or brake? Do front sway bars just get in the way? Do you like tuna with no crust? Yes, yes, and hell yes? Well, it looks like was meant for you. Here are ten cars that will do their best to break ten seconds.

A liter bike is one of the fastest vehicles you can buy, bar none. But with depreciation and the fact that much of western society doesn't really have any sense of imminent danger anymore, and do something absolutely crazy like put a turbo on it for not much money at all. That means you can do wheelies at 120 mph and the quarter mile in well under 10 seconds. Change of underwear not included.

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9. 1971 Chevy Camaro

Sometimes life gets in the way. And sometimes you wait for it to get in another person's way to get a really cool car for next to nothing. . Here are a few reasons this car should be in your high-speed short list, according to :

This monster checks all the right boxes:

-It's a sweet sleeper Camaro

-500 cubic inch new crate engine, making over 800 HP if the ad it to be believed

-New transmission

-New Ford 9" rear end

-Weld-in cage

-Runs on 112 octane race fuel brah

-Hoosier slicks brah

-It weight 3200 lbs without the driver! And it's a big ass Camaro!

Looks like the only missing things are a proper harness and HANS device. I want this thing.

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8. 1978 Buick Regal

. By the seller's estimation, the car has 550 horsepower to the rear wheels, which should translate into a quarter mile time of a brand new Ferrari - for the price of a used (and probably broken) Honda Civic.

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7. 1972 Dodge Charger 400 SE Brougham

A Dodge Charger is, and always will be, a welcome sight at the drag strip. , but it's priced so far under budget that you could likely get a firebreathing big block crate motor and drop it in without too much fuss, both physically and financially. Here's a real way to live out your Dominic Torretto fantasies without having to steal Panasonic DVD players for a living.

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6. 1982 Chevy S10

. It has low ground clearance and isn't actually very aerodynamic. But it will run a 9.3 at 148 mph in the quarter mile, and that just makes it better than any of the pickups that can't do that. Race trucks are best trucks.

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5. 1985 Monte Carlo

What's more intimidating than a sub-10 second car with an enormous hood scoop, painted in a pinkish purple hue? is a true modern, no leaf-springs, classic muscle car, modified to absolutely haul ass one quarter mile at a time. It even has the OEM faux woodgrain on the dash, for that classy look.

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4. 1972 Datsun 240z

The basic formula of a hot rod is tiny car, huge engine, and . Shoehorned into this tiny Japanese shell is a 355 cubic inch Chevy V8, with a healthy shot of nitrous, so you can "too soon, Junior" all over everyone's face at the track.

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3. 1987 Yugo GV With Thundercat 900 Snowmobile Engine

We've all been there - sitting at home on a Friday night, wanting to go out to the track with your friends, but all you have is an old snowmobile and a Yugo. I've seen it a million times. ever. According to the seller, the car is capable of an 11-second pass. Let's hope the gas cap lid stays on.

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2. Smart ForTwo With Any Engine Swap

A Smart car, by itself, sucks. Its asthmatic 3-cylinder engine leaves more to be desired than a first-day unpaid intern demanding retirement benefits. , but swapping in an engine may not be the easiest thing in the world. You can blow the budget and install a with a turbo, or you can do like did and go with a Toyota Paseo 4-cylinder engine with an insanely high pressure supercharger. If you do the work yourself, you might be able to squeak by under budget, but only just. At the very least, it's the cheapest car you can buy that will do wheelies on the street, on command.

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1. Fritz Rear-Engined Dragster

. That means that it will out-accelerate a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport for the price of a salvage title Kia Optima. It's the ultimate weekend toy, and I don't know of anything that would be more fitting at the track than a bona fide dragster with a for-realsies parachute. It's terrifying and fast, and the best damn value for your quarter mile buck.

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