Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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Richard Petty’s Drag Racing Legacy: The Hot Rod Hoarder Separates The FACTS from The MISCONCEPTIONS Right Here

One of our favorite hot rod historians is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, because he’s a fount of information and really gets into his subject. He’s so good at the history behind...

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Here’s IHRA’s Full Schedule For 2026: Triple Crown, Specials, Purses, And So Much More Right Here!

IHRA has been putting out tons of announcement for the past several months, and if you have missed any of them you can use the link below to see some of the bigger ones. But if you want to see the...

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Carburetor Tech: Predator Carburetor Deep Dive Part 1 – How They Function and How To Rebuild Them. What About Parts?

We’ve talked about the Predator Carburetor before, most recently with a video from DD Speed Shop where he was having issues, which you can use the link below to check out. But Predator...

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Tool Tech: The BEST Swivel Adapters for Sockets! Putting Swivel Adapters Through Their Paces To Find Out Who’s Best

We’re back with more tool tests, which you know we love around here, and this time it’s swivel adapters that are being test. We all love a good wobbly socket, but if you don’t have...

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What is Tony’s LEAST FAVORITE part of Hot Rodding? Finishing One. But That’s The Plan For His 1970 HEMI Dart Swap!

I think most hot rodders have the same problem as Tony when it comes to finishing our rides. I know I’m the same way. I think it’s Attention Deficite Hot Rod Disorder. ADHRD. We all...

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Retrowave: 1985 Dodge Daytona Racer…Time To Make This One Howl!

Have you ever seen that meme that ends with, “…because in thirty years, nobody is going to be excited to open up a barn and see a Honda Civic?” or whatever low-end car they can come...

Double Duty Video: Chad Green Raced Nitro Funny Car and Pro Mod At Indy – Live The Weekend From The Inside Out!

When we first got the news that Chad Green was going to run both nitro funny car and pro modified at the NHRA Lucas Oil Summernationals at Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis we were pumped up. It had...

Dare To Be Different: This 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside Pro Street Truck Is Awesome

Different can be cool, different can be weird, and sometimes different can be wrong. In the case of the 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside pro street truck, different is radical! We’re kind of...

Historical Footage: 1983 NHRA World Finals At OCIR Courtesy Of Diamond P!

What better way to kick your week off than with the voices of Dave McClelland and Steve Evans announcing some excellent drag racing action for you? Let’s go back to 1983, the year that the Ford...

New Project Alert! Motion Raceworks Kick Off The Drag Week/Rocky Mountain Race Week Extreme Blazer Project!

Before too long everyone at Motion Raceworks is going to have a car ready to run on Rocky Mountain Race Week and Drag Week! They’ve been getting Novas and GTOs ready and now it’s time for...

Moonbeam: This 1965 Ford Ranchero Straight-Up Gets It!

Action might be a little thin on the ground once again, but the Southeast Gassers Association have had no issue getting around and making a bit of noise. Some of our favorite racing comes from this...

Studezilla: “This Is The Most Bad Ass Thing I’ve Ever Stepped On The Gas In.” Scott Palmer

Our friend Chad Ehrlich is a guy that has a pretty cool business selling old cars and trucks, and he’s also friends with some pretty cool guys from the midwest. Scott Palmer, or Scotty to those...

Junkyard Like A Pro! Here’s How To Pick The Right Junkyard Engine For Your Next Project

Getting an engine from the right vehicle at the wrecking yard matters! There are lots of things that can result in a vehicle finding the end of its usable life and moving onto a wrecking yard to be...

Four Digit Stomper: Check Out The Parts And Pieces Freiburger Is Going To Turn Into 1,000+ Naturally Aspirated Horsepower

Everyone has goals, right? Somedays our goal is to make it a full day without covering our shirt in mustard, somedays it is to get some work on a project knocked out, and somedays it is to find cool...

Four Minutes Of Slick Wrapping, Ant’s Eye View, Slow Motion Drag Launches

Our pal Javier Padron made this video and it is four minutes of drag car launches shot with what we’d consider to be an “ant’s eye” view. Even more neat is the fact that the...

Money No Object: 1979 Pontiac Catalina Brown-Bag Special

Oh, karma. You have decided to visit me once again, I see. Back when I was in middle school, I helped turn a Catalina just like this one in light blue into a ragged-assed demolition derby car. There...

Unkillable: This Video Talks About And Shows A JE Piston That Lived Through Two Hours Of Racing And 10 Minutes At WOT

Racers are a punishing lot, right? During competition they are using their machines to go as fast and as hard as possible, pushing the bounds of physical and mechanical endurance. What do they do...

BangShift Pocket Drag Biography: The Freight Train Top Gas Twin Engine Dragster – A Nearly Unstoppable Force!

Top Gas dragsters are largely forgotten today, which is really too bad. Born of the NHRA’s ban on nitromethane that lasted from 1957-1963, Top Gas dragsters really started as weak-suck little...

Watch A Crewman Escape Death By Inches At Byron Dragway – Dragster He Is Standing Next To Nearly Runs Him Over

In nearly 20 years of going to the drag strip now (mostly in a working environment) I have learned a few things but the most important thing I have learned is that the starting line is an incredibly...