Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Christmas With Vice Grip Garage! – Derek and Jessica Open Gifts From Fans On This Holiday Special!

I know that a lot of YouTubers get gifts and stuff from fans and viewers all the time, and many of them do videos where they are opening mail and packages from them. But when it’s Christmas...

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Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Cars, Trucks, And Coolness Galore In Bowling Green

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While the weather was not cooperative during the weekend in Bowling Green, it did not take the wind out of anyone’s sales or dampen spirits at all during...

BASTARDS: Thieves Steal $1,000,000 In Race Engines And Parts From Charlie Buck Racing Engines – Help Find ‘Em!

We have to thank Jeff Lee for sending us a tip to a story that has our blood boiling. Charlie Buck Racing Engines has been a force to be reckoned with in the nitrous and heavy duty drag racing engine...

Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Our Photo Blast Begins NOW!

(PHOTOS BY BRYAN MCTAGGART) – While mother nature doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with the plan at the 2015 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we’re on the grounds and...

Irwindale Starts Saturday Night Racing! Be There July 11th!

After years of packed house racing on Thursday nights, Irwindale is going to start a Saturday program starting July 11th! Southern Californians are in a better spot than ever before with the...

Mopar HEMI® Challenge 15th Anniversary At 2015 U.S. Nationals

Six time and defending Mopar HEMI® Challenge Champion Charlie Westcott Jr. in his War Fish ‘Cuda. Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt For the 15th consecutive season, Mopar will underscore its...

Thornhill Dragway Nostalgia Drag Photos: Freaky Funny Cars, Straight Axle Mafia Coolness

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So what we have here are the Straight-Axle Mafia and some other classic-style racers that came to play old-time drags.  The racing was 1/8th mile and was...

Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s

Chances are that you’ve never heard of the Best and Gordon Purple Haze A/Fuel dragster from the early 1970s. Don’t worry, you are not alone because we hadn’t either, and frankly...

2015 NHRA New England Nationals: Our Last Great Photo Collection – Drivers, Crowds, Racing Action

(Photos by Rich Pasley) – The second of a three race back to back to back stretch on the east coast for NHRA teams the NHRA New England Nationals was another success for the venerable drag...

Amazing eBay Find! This Quadruple Four Barrel, Straight 8 Powered Street Roadster Was A 1970s NHRA Killer

We see lots of cool old drag cars around here but this one is in a league all of its own. For sale on eBay is this absolutely awesome former NHRA street roadster class machine that can in the C/SR...

Look! New Edelbrock E-CNC LS3 Heads That Will Help You Make Big Power NA or Boosted

Let’s face it, the magic in GM LS Engines is in the cylinder heads. The rest of it is just so much stuff that consists of a bunch of metal that holds a crank, rods, and pistons. There is NO...

Hard Guys Nitro Funny Car Heads To IHRA Nitro Jam At MIR With High Expectations

After a winter of building engines, upgrading the car, and testing in recent weeks the Hard Guys nitro funny car is ready for its first true test of the 2015 season at this weekend’s IHRA NItro...

Drag Action: Our Last Blast From The Mega Mopar Action Race At Maple Grove Raceway

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – It was a great weekend of showing, racing, and hanging out at Maple Grove Raceway for the Mega Mopar Action weekend. From the SS/AH cars that blistered the strip and...

NHRA New England Nationals Photo Journal Continues – Header Flames Galore On A Beautiful Friday Night

(Photos by Rich Pasley) – If there is one thing that people love about going to the drag races it is seeing records set. Track records, national records, whatever it is, those little slices of...

King Of The Streets 2015: Pit Photos From The Showdown At Great Lakes Dragaway

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – Combining the elements of an awesome, historic drag strip with the new wave movement of no-prep drag racing  was the name of the game at the King of the Streets...