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After Watching This Clip Of “World Figure-8”, We Think We Have Found The Next NASCAR Race Type!

Let’s be honest here: the only reason most people watch NASCAR anymore is for the crashes. That’s it. The racing…meh. The fights…yawn. But when a cookie-cutter racing machine...

Casey Woodside’s Fifth-Gen Camaro Is His First Car, His Race Car, And His Daily!

It’s a daily driver, it’s raced hard enough to place in the Optima Ultimate Street Car challenge and to hang with the serious builds during the LS Fest autocross and 3S Challenge, and if...

1970’s Meets Pro-Touring? Could This Be One Bad Ass Fat Tire Camaro?

This 1967 Camaro looks crazy. There is no doubt that it will hold a 315, or any other tire it’s little heart desires, but could you take this style of car that looks like it was built in the...

This Fox Body Mustang From Garage Built Racing Nearly Ran 7’s At LS Fest On First Few Hits!

We got such a kick out of watching this Matt Allred and Garage Built Racing Fox Body Mustang during LS Fest last weekend. The crew had literally built this car from the ground up and had it...

ACED: AutoCross Every Day! 1971 Corvette Tears Up Autocross At LS Fest 2015

LS Fest was awesome! And the autocross course was really run, well for some people anyway. This video shows one person who was most certainly having a great time throwing this beautiful 1971 Corvette...

Street Racing In Sweden Means Big Inches And Nitrous Meet LSX Turbo Power In Volvos!

What’s so awesome about this video, besides the fact that Kyle got to travel to Sweden to shoot it, is that I have looked at Volvo wagon’s a jillion times and wanted to take one to the...

Watch This Dodge Dakota Catch On Fire During A Burnout Contest!

Rubber fires burn forever, and apparently they burn even better with some accelerant! This Dodge Dakota pickup is getting it’s tire smoke on, when all of a sudden the tires burst into flames....

NMCA Announces 2016 Event Schedule: NMCA Classes And Special Events At Each Race!

Besides all the great drag racing you expect from NMCA, they are once again turning up the boost on another year with even more special events at each and every venue! From Sealed Stock shootouts to...

I Hate It When Collector Bolts Come Loose! Here Is The Fix!

Daphne’s wagon has great Hedman Hedders with ball and socket collectors on them that require no gasket and never ever leak. Except when the bolts come loose. Which they do about once every few...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: So Long, Store Manager, And Best Of Luck

Well, it was bound to happen: Store Manager made good on his threat to the new Regional, the guy who brought in so much stress that it ended up putting a guy who I had no issue working for in the...

Performance Figures And Prices Released For The Ford Focus RS:

It’s been a long time since a four-cylinder pocket rocket made us salivate with anticipation, and the Ford Focus RS is that car. Handed down from a lineage of hot-rod Focuses that were not...

Flashback Feature: The Mid-Engined 1978 Oldsmobile 442 – How Many Of You Remember This Ride?

The moment I saw the pictures, memories of seeing this car in the old magazines I had pawed through for years came flooding back. Some cars stand out because of the owner and their antics, or because...

John Force Says Thank You To NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon At Charlotte Race

Words and photos by John Force Racing   John Force’s memories of Jeff Gordon go back to the early 90’s when the two drivers were just getting started on their impressive championship...

A Look Back At Mitsubishi’s Better Years With A 1973 Colt Galant GTO GS-R

Currently, Mitsubishi is one of those car manufacturers that is sitting on everyone’s “Death Watch”. We get the Outlander and the horrifyingly bad Mirage, a car the shape and color...