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Tony Schumacher Returns To NHRA Drag Racing For Six Races Starting At Denso Spark Plugs US Nationals

Tony Schumacher will have an interesting role to play in the majority of the rest of the NHRA season as Don Schumacher Racing has announced that Tony will be back in the seat for six races starting...

Listen Up: TJ Zizzo and Angelle Sampey Are This Week’s Guests On The NHRA Insider Podcast – Honest, Cool, Inside Stories!

TJ Zizzo and Angelle Sampey join Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider Podcast to talk about their careers, recent successes, and how the long and winding road of drag racing has taken them to places both...

Man Puts 1-Million Miles On Nissan Frontier – Is Given Identical Truck By Nissan

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Nissan Frontier: A truck that’s been around for 17 years without a major update has hit a milestone. A man from Texas put a million miles on his 2007 Frontier and Nissan...

Classic YouTube: Durability Testing A Volvo Dump Truck By Letting A Four-Year-Old Operate It

Certain things in life are inescapable truths. Volvo, regardless of who owns them, has always been hell-bent on making sure that every vehicle that carries their name is safe for anyone, anywhere,...

Kept Precious: Jay Leno Walks Through His Owned-From-New Dodge Viper

In a crowd of Chrysler minivans, Ford Escorts, GM full-size sedans and four-cylinder imports that were starting to get surprisingly good, the Dodge Viper had all of the impact of a Tito Ortiz punch...

Rippin’ Grip: This Beefy Little Ford-Powered Miata Can Get Down On The Strip

The combination of an AC Ace, the Ford Motor Company, and a chili connoisseur from Texas combined to make one of the most fearsome sports cars ever devised, the AC/Shelby Cobra. In small-block form,...

Unhinged: A “Knight Rider” Reboot? Somebody Needs To Be Rebooted.

In 2000, Nicolas Cage became Randal “Memphis” Raines for the reworking of the H.B. Halicki legend “Gone in 60 Seconds”. In 2004, “Starsky and Hutch” got reworked,...

Rough Start: 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Sedan – A Bit Of Sage Advice

A few days ago, while driving through town, I spotted a vehicle I would’ve never expected to see still on the road in 2020: a G-body Buick Regal four-door from the mid-1980s. In a sea of...

Bonneville Speed Week 2020 Photo Coverage: Images From Sunday Morning On The Salt – Speed and Beauty!

The Bonneville Salt Flats have been challenging the smartest, bravest, and most innovative hot rodders the world has to offer for more than 100 year now. Since the initial speed runs were made on the...

No Frills Fun: This 1964 Chevy Biscayne Has A Four-Speed, A 283, and Nice Black Paint

We constantly hear guys telling us that all they want is the most basic, no-frills, old-school car to have fun in. Well, fellas are it is. We found this 1964 Chevy Biscayne for sale on...

Follow The Starting Procedure Of A Vintage DC-3 With The Most Experienced DC-3 Pilot On Earth – This Plane Is Flying Today!

The DC-3 is one of the most iconic and successful aircraft of all time. As versatile as a Swiss Army Knife and as durable as Sherman tank, these are machines that still have a place in the modern...

Indy 500 History Video: The Incredible Salt Walther Wreck During The Ill-Fated 1973 Indy 500

This weekend, yes this August weekend in 2020 the Indy 500 will be run. It will be run without spectators but the race will be run and we’re sure there will be a monster television audience...

Wait, What? The Start Of The Jeep Grand Wagoneer Reveal Process Is Decidedly Weird

(By Tom Lohnes) – Just as the hype for the new Bronco simmers down, Jeep teased the expedition-sized Wagoneer in about the weirdest way possible. Releasing pictures of the back half of the...