PROCK SETS SINGLE-SEASON NO. 1 QUALIFIER RECORD IN FUNNY CAR; B. FORCE, ANDERSON & HERRERA ALSO TAKE TOP SPOTS AT FORD PERFORMANCE NHRA NATIONALS

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 2, 2024) – Funny Car points leader Austin Prock broke John Force’s record for most No. 1 qualifiers in a single season on Saturday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,...

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230 MPH ROLLOVER During The Wild Qualifying Day #1 At World Cup Finals 2024 Import Vs Domestics

They should call this year’s World Cup Finals the carnage nationals if Day 1 is any indication of what is to come. If you watch the video, or any of the posts on social media, it seems like...

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Cordless Impact Drive Testing: The Torque This Delivers Might Shock You! DeWALT’s New Quiet Hydraulic DCF870 vs M18 Surge

These are impact drivers, not impact guns/wrenches. These are the type that most folks would consider at home on a construction site, home DIYers toolbox, and the like. But this new DeWalt might...

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Drag Car HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder Shares The Story of the Only Surviving 1969 Olds W-31 Factory-Built Drag Car, And It’s A Good One!

We are as guilty as anyone of romanticizing the cars and trucks of the 1960s, and in some ways probably more than they deserve, but this story here might actually make a 1969 Olds W-31 convertible an...

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Dylan McCool’s Forgotten Dart V8 Four Speed Goes Drag Racing! Will It Survive? Probably Not, But It Sure Will Be Fun!

Okay, that’s not fair, because in all reality I am not sure that I’ve seen Dylan at one of the events in Bowling Green where he hurt something bad enough to not survive the weekend. I...

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B. FORCE, PROCK, ANDERSON & M. SMITH GET PROVISIONAL NO. 1 POSITIONS AT FORD PERFORMANCE NHRA NATIONALS

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 1, 2024) – With John Force returning to the track on Friday for the first time since his crash in June, team drivers Brittany Force and Austin Prock both went to the top in Top Fuel...

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2013 Cobra Jet #33 Is Up For Sale. 15 Miles, Never Raced, Better Sales Video Than Ford Ever Thought To Do!

2013 Ford Cobra Jet Mustang #33 is up for sale from the guys at Bullet Motorsports, and they’ve put together a video that is arguably better than anything Ford or GM ever puts out about their...

Central Illinois Dragway – Here’s Our Final Collection Of Photos From The Strip

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Well, we have come to the end of the line with respect to the great photos that Greg Rourke sent us from Central Illinois Dragway. We’re pretty sure that Greg...

eBay Find: Is This 1969 Hemi Road Runner The Ultimate Example Of Factory Muscle? Spectacular Car

The opinions on muscle cars are very passionate and very wide ranging. Starting with trying to determine what the first muscle car ever made was to which car can be rightly considered the ultimate...

Mopar Hemi Shootout On Tap At Indy For 14th Consecutive Year – Elephants Will March At 60th US Nationals

Some good news on the drag racing front today as it has been reported that for the 14th year in a row there will be a super stock Hemi shootout at the US Nationals in August. The 60th US Nationals is...

Freiburger and Finnegan Are Currently Driving Mike’s Hemi Powered 1955 Chevy Gasser Across Country – Follow Along Here!

As lots of you already know, the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour will be kicking off in less than a week and the Roadkill guys have been literally working 20 hours a day to build the 1955 Chevy of...

BangShifty Bits From The Pits A Central Illinois Dragway – Cool Cars, Carnage, And Stuff Galore

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Last week we showed you Greg Rourke’s great action photos from the strip at Central Illinois Dragway. Today we’re taking you into the pits through the lens...

Watch Gary Courtier Suffer One Of The Most Intense And Raging Pro Mod Fires Of All Time

Gary Courtier has been racing pro modified cars in the New England for more than a decade. His machines have always been nitrous injected, they have always been Camaro bodied, and they have always...

Watch An 8 Second Volkswagen Miss A Shift, Causing An Endo, And Then Still Run 170+ MPH!

When Michel Lubberts sent us the tip on this one, after Brian posted the Parting Shift about how bad it was to go from 3rd gear to 2nd gear, I was intrigued by the photo you see above more than...

Action Gallery: The TS Performance Diesel Drags, Beech Bend Raceway – Crazy, Sideways, Smoking Diesel Action

(Words and photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Question: What has enough torque to slow the Earth’s rotation, enough smoke to justify suspicion of an oil derrick fire, and enough turbine noise to...

Watch Steve Matusek Handle A No Parachute Situation In A Pro Mod Like A Boss

There are few things more hairy than seeing a very fast drag race car head through the timing traps and then not seeing the parachutes blossom. While some tracks are longer than others, you know that...

Tommy Johnson Jr Suffers A Boomer Of A Funny Car Explosion At Englishtown

Tommy Johnson Jr. suffered a pretty nasty explosion while driving the Make A Wish funny car at the Toyota NHRA Summernationals yesterday. The car was on what seemed to be a nice, clean run when it...

The Parting Shift: Powershifting Second Gear From Third Gear Is Not Good

Thus far we’ve showcased guys really getting it done with manual transmissions with our Parting Shift items. Today we take an ominous turn into the world of fail. See that tach needle buried...

Friday BOOM: Here’s A Massive Nitrous Explosion From The 2009 Shakedown At E-Town

This is Jeff Rodgers’ Executioner Pro Mod at the 2009 Shakedown at E-Town in Englishtown, New Jersey and at that race the car suffered one of the more massive nitrous pops we have ever...

Craigslist Find: Is This 383 Chevy Powered, 1984 Pontiac T1000 Worth $4,000?

BangShifter Chris Cabe gets the credit for finding this mean spirited little car for sale on Craigslist and sharing it with us. The mean machine is a 1984 Pontiac T1000 which packs a 383 Chevy small...