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It might not look like much, but this ’61 Beetle will lift its wheels and turn the quarter in 11 seconds with nothing more than a 1776 in the back. Here’s how...

There’s an old fable about a tortoise and a hare. On the face of it, in a flat-out race the young, bolshy hare was gonna whoop that quiet old tortoise, but we all know that’s not what happened. And this can sometimes happen in drag racing. You can buy the biggest, lairiest motor in the world but if you blow it to smithereens at the eighth mile, that slower guy in the other lane will take the win.

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