What the 11-year-old Joe didn’t realize at the time is that the car he had fallen in love with was the impetus behind a brand-new car-building trend that would burn hot and bright to the current day.

The Pro-Street build style—a mashup of NHRA Pro Stock and the flamboyant street machine look of the 1970s—has been praised and cursed over the decades, but there’s no denying Pro Street’s massive ...

Modifying and repurposing cars goes back nearly as far as the automobile itself. And whether the changes are made with the intention of increasing performance and speed or for purely aesthetic ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...