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Classic Workhorse: This 1965 Dodge D600 Flatbed Truck Is The Perfect Foundation For A Salt Cruiser!

Are any of you shocked that Brian and Chad both are going nuts over the rigs that are out at Bonneville right now? No, not the race cars…the big trucks and RVs that are serving as homes on the...

More No Prep Nuttiness! This Radial Equipped Nova Spins A High Speed 360 and Only Hits Cones

We’re back with another crazy video from the no prep race at Kansas Speedway the other night. This time we see a pair of genuinely beautiful Novas lined up next to each other. Both cars have...

The Want Is Strong: ICON’s “Reformer” Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 – For When You Want To Intimidate Every Left-Lane Hog Everywhere

Nothing against our own Buford T. Justice Caprice, but…well, it’s the truth: this super-trick 1994-96 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 trumps it in just about every way: power, performance, gadgets,...

Buy These Two Whitney Twin Wasp 800hp Radial Engines And Start Your Bonneville Freak Today!

So this week at the Bonneville Salt Flats has done what it usually does. It gets our brains spinning at like 8,900rpm and we want to build some sort of bizarre freakshow car or truck to come out and...

The Scoop! Here Are All Of The Cars (and Trucks) Making Record Run Attempts On Tuesday Morning

The winds kicked up on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday afternoon causing SCTA officials to cut the Monday portion of Speed Week off earlier than planned. Runs were halted around 5pm and the...

Poteet’s Speed Demon Sets New B/Blown Fuel Streamliner Record At 416.511 mph Monday Bonneville Speed Week 2016

He’s done it again! George Poteet, driving the Speed Demon Streamliner, has set another record here at Bonneville Speed Week 2016, breaking a 16 year old record held by the Teague, Welch, Banks...

Nobody Is Slowing Down! Bonneville Speed Week 2016 Photo Coverage Continues

Overcast skies and moderate temperatures were a welcome change for competitors at Bonneville Speed Week 2016 on Monday, and everyone was lined up early to see what kind of number they could lay down...

More Speed, More Power, More Bonneville Speed Week 2016 Photos Right Here.

You’ve seen us posting several galleries a day of photos from Bonneville Speed Week 2016, but this one is a little special because not only do we have killer cars, the people that drive them,...

We’re Drooling Over Some Cool RVs At Bonneville Speed Week 2016 And Here Are Our Favorites

It’s a given that you are going to see a ton of killer race cars when you come to Bonneville Speed Week, and of course a lot of hot rods, but what surprises some folks are the interesting tow...

White Salt, Blue Skys, And Big Horsepower: It’s Bonneville Speed Week 2016 And We Have More Photos

If you’ve started going through withdrawals, wishing for more Bonneville Speed Week coverage today, then you are in luck as here is our second photo gallery of the day featuring race cars,...

Ever Wonder What NASCAR Racing Would Look Like In The Rain? Check Out The Footage From The Soaked Xfinity Race At Mid-Ohio!

It’s the biggest dig most any other auto racing community can make at NASCAR: once drops start falling from the sky, it’s time to go inside. Normally, when rain starts to fall on a race,...

Crusiers, Trucks, and Haulers From A Salty Sunday At Bonneville

Speed Week follows a kind of natural arc and Sunday is part of that program. There are lots of spectators (several thousand this year) that come out for the weekend and then head back towards home on...

Mail’s Here! This Gasser-Style 1979 AM General DJ-5 Is Pretty Neat And Certainly Unique!

The good old Mail Jeep…no matter how long it’s been since the United States Postal Service retired them, I still smile when I see one somehow still toddling along. Yeah, it boils down to...

2016 Mopar Nats Gallery: Mopars Shining In The Glory Of A Lovely Saturday Morning!

By all accounts, our first day at the 2016 Mopar Nats was a success: I had driven over five hours from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Hebron, Ohio and only managed to knock my alignment out slightly in...