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Killer Video: Dirt Modifieds Attacking the Road Course!

Like the Crown Vic wagon we showed you on the autocross earlier this week, putting dirt cars on asphalt is our kind of awesome. The cars normally spend their lives turning left only, so switching...

More American Motoring History: We Love These Photos From The Dawn Of The Automotive Age – Fresh Old Stuff

(Photos from Detroit Public Library Digital Collection) – So we’re back with more killer photos from the turn of the 20th century and the vehicles that launched the world’s...

Know Your Tech Guru: Aeromotive’s Brett Clow Personifies The Company’s Hands on Approach

The thing we really love about the high performance aftermarket is that the companies that produce the things racers and hot rodders use are not filled with drone-like worker bees. They are filled...

This Restored US Army WWII M2 Half Track Is A Cool, Functional, Bad Ass Piece of History

There’s a short list of things we all have that we want but really could never actually own for one reason or another. On mine is a WWII M2 Half Track. Why could I never own it? I have nowhere...

35 Years Later It’s Still Huge – Ride With Chuck Etchells For The First Funny Car 4

The late Chuck Etchells notched his name into the stone tablet of funny car history back in 1993 when he became the first driver to punch his way into the four second zone in a nitro funny car. On a...

Have A 2010-2015 Camaro SS With An L99 Engine? COMP Has Released A CARB Legal Swap Cam That’ll Pick You Up 30-50hp

COMP Cams never stops innovating and they never stop coming up with solutions for modern hot rodders. Here’s a prime example. The company has released a performance camshaft designed to be used...

Watch This 557ci Kaase Ford Hemi Belt Out 844 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno

The Boss 429, which is the basic inspiration behind the overgrown Kaase version here is one of the neatest engines to ever come out of a Detroit manufacturer. Like the “Cammer” V8s of the...

2018 Edelbrock Car Show Photo Coverage: Our Last Photos From The Yearly Party

(Photos by Wes Allison) – So we have reached the end of the hundreds of photos that we shot at the 2018 Edelbrock car show, a yearly Torrance, California tradition that we’ve loved...

The 48th Antique Nationals At Fontana’s Auto Club Dragway!

(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The Antique Nationals is arguably the original nostalgia-racing event, long before large, multi-day reunions and cacklefests.  Today, the single day 48th...

This C10 Short Bed Sits Right, Has Great Patina, And Is West Texas Perfection

Lowered C10 Chevy pickups are arguably one of the more perfect things on earth. We LOVE seeing them lowered at just about any level, and the truth is all years look great when closer to the earth....

Here Are More High Flying Photos From Holley’s LSFest West In Las Vegas

That’s right folks, we’re not done by a long shot with our coverage from the 2nd Annual Holley LSFest West at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. We’ve got lots more photos, of...

Is This Camaro Too Far Gone? Or Is A Hot Rod Always Worth Saving?

How many times have you, or one of your buddies, brought a project home that you just KNEW could be saved but everyone else that looked at it thought it was junk? Or how about those cars you see...

Jeff Arend Dominates NHRA Heritage Series Nitro Funny Cars at Firebird’s Ignitor!

(Photos by Annette Barton, Kim Fuller & Robert Grice) – With consistent 5.70’s during eliminations, four-time NHRA Mello Yello event winner Jeff Arend dominated NHRA Heritage Series nitro...

Cowboy Up! NHRA Pro Stock Veteran Mark Pawuk Joins Don Schumacher Racing As Driver Of Second Factory Stock Effort

One of the neatest moments for me at the recently passed NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina was hanging out with Mark “The Coyboy” Pawuk who was a longtime...