Chevrolet's Powerglide transmission hasn't been made in over half a century, but drag racers still love and use it. Here's ...

Automatic transmissions are now used in most street machines, street rods, off-road vehicles, and drag race cars. With the addition of recalibration kits and new forward and reversed valve bodies, ...

Pity the poor Powerglide. The two-speed automatic, when introduced in 1950, brought automatic transmission availability to lower-priced cars and became ubiquitous in Chevrolets of the 1950s and ’60s.

Think of it this way: The best equipment is only as good as its weakest link. It makes no sense to connect a full-competition trans to the stock column shift. Besides, with its reversed shift pattern, ...