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Caption This: Automotive Jenga At It’s Finest Was Captured In This Northern Arizona Accident!

Ah, Prescott, Arizona…I miss that place. I lived there three years and loved just about every day I was there. Don’t mistake Prescott for “cactus and lizards and HOLY HELL...

Leah Pritchett Wins 2018 NHRA SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown World Championship In Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak

As the NHRA season winds across the country to its eventual close in Pomona, California class championships are being decided in many of the various forms of competition that the organization...

Watch Annie Whiteley’s High Speed Trip Into The Texas Motorplex Sand Trap – She Was OK

My obsession at finding and seeing as many drag strips on this planet as I possibly can stems from the fact that while all of them are (at base) long strips of asphalt and/or concrete, they each have...

RacingJunk.com Find: This 1965 Dodge A990 May Be A Tribute But We’re Deep In Love All The Same

There are times when we would prefer a tribute car over the “real” example of an iconic machine from Detroit and this is one of those times. Why? If we had the real version of this car we...

Rough Start: The C4 Corvette Of Your Cheap 1980s Nostalgia Dreams!

A few days ago, Chad put up a question in the form of a C4 Corvette that was very well built, clean as a whistle, and in need of a bit of minor maintenance that the owner wasn’t willing to...

2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure Photo Coverage: Our Last Shot Of SoCal Photos

(Photos by Wes Allison) – After a few hundred images we are finally at the end of our run of photos from the 2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure car show. This time it is hot rods, muscle cars,...

Timeless Angles: A Full Field Of Pre-1966 Race Machines At Imola’s Motor Legends Festival

Curves that let the air roll around the car instead of meeting it like a barn door at speed. Deep air intakes meant to emulate jet aircraft intakes, directing massive amounts of much-needed air to...

AutoMeter Sizzling Summer Savings: Get 10% Off All AutoMeter Branded Gauges Until October 31st

Now’s the time! The time for what? The time to shop for new gauges for your hot rod, truck, race car or cruiser from AutoMeter as they are having their Sizzling Summer Savings sale which is an...

Saying Goodbye To The Ford Falcon At Bathurst The Right Way…Racing It With A Mustang And A GT!

Put the final nail in the coffin, the Ford Falcon is utterly dead as a new car goes in Australia. When the folks at Bathurst are saying their final farewells to a car that has deeper roots than it...

2018 Cynthiana Rod Run Coverage: More Photos From The Packed House In Kentucky

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Though I missed a bunch events through the summer many of those were either rained upon or rained out.  Our area has gotten more than usual thus far in...

2018 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Photo Coverage: Raindrops Were Falling But The Cars Still Came

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – By the time the droplets of liquid stopped falling from the clouds we were getting pretty hungry.  Good thing this year the Hullabaloo had three food...

Project Candidate: How Would You Finish Up This Straight-Axle 1971 Ford Maverick?

Just my personal opinion: not many cars built after 1965 can, or should, be made into gassers. For the most part, it just doesn’t look right. You hear “gasser”, and you see Willys...

Classic YouTube: Teaching The Press How To Drive A Rally Car In 1974

For those who are lucky enough to make a living writing about cars, the pinnacle highlight is being cut loose with someone else’s car and doing a touch more than just putting about from Point A...

BangShift Sound Check Video: Crank The Speakers And LOVE These Sounds From The Classic 12 Hours Of Sebring

The HSR Classic 12 Hours of Sebring is one of the coolest vintage races that happens in North America each year. We often share videos from events like this because they are awesome and the cars are...