{"id":104999,"date":"2026-02-27T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=104999"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:26:21","slug":"drag-drive-and-repeat-a-sleeper-olds-and-a-powerhouse-nhra-lincoln-mark-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/drag-drive-and-repeat-a-sleeper-olds-and-a-powerhouse-nhra-lincoln-mark-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag Drive and Repeat:  A Sleeper Olds and a Powerhouse NHRA Lincoln Mark VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105000\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/drag-drive-and-repeat-a-sleeper-olds-and-a-powerhouse-nhra-lincoln-mark-viii\/found-on-racingjunk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,359\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Found on RacingJunk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk-300x168.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk-308x173.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RacingJunk-638x357.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael and Eric of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragdriverepeat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drag Drive Repeat<\/a> are still recovering from the glory that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickthemagazine.com\/sick-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sick Week 2026<\/a> right now, but they still found time to cruise RacingJunk for Drag and Drive cars.\u00a0 This go around they&#8217;re looking at a proven beast of a Lincoln and a sleeper Olds that just might be a beast on the street and the track.\u00a0 Obviously, a drag and drive car needs to put miles on the tires and still show up for a party on the strip so there are specific requirements (for both car and driver). Do these two vehicles have what it takes?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJiF7ptpH_s?si=5r-KjJDNxtKDMqFC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out these two contenders, and of course, the weekly podcast, event coverage and more, on the Drag Drive Repeat YouTube Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@dragdriverepeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@dragdriverepeat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gotta a drag and drive car? Let us know! Looking to buy or sell one? Check out the drag and drive section on RacingJunk: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/category\/7054\/drag-and-drive.html\">https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/category\/7054\/drag-and-drive.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Drag Drive Repeat weighs the strengths and weaknesses of two big bodied contenders.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029],"tags":[12919],"class_list":["post-104999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","tag-drag-drive-repeat","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Found-on-RJ-Olds.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-rjx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105002,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104999\/revisions\/105002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}