It's been the core of grassroots hot rodding since the very beginning: you're on the street with your car, another rodder pulls alongside and you go -- drag racing to see who has the quicker ride. Illegal street racing found its way to sanctioned tracks as early as 1949 and that's when street-driven cars began to morph into pure racecars. Yet for 65 years, hot rodders have remained interested in real street-driven cars that are also fast on the strip. David Freiburger traces the history of street-legal drag racing, with insider information on the development of the Fastest Street Car Shootout in the '90s, the HOT ROD Pump Gas Drags in the mid-2000s, and the current challenges facing HOT ROD Drag Week.