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Is Finnegan’s New Trailer The BEST Drag And Drive Trailer EVER Built?! A Few Stand Out, And This One Might Be At The Top Of That List

Drag and Drive trailers range from the sublime to the ridiculous and everything in between. I’ve built big ones, small ones, and medium sized ones, but at each drag and drive event you see more...

Trying Again To Get That 7 Second Time Slip With A 5.3! Will Dave Get That Monkey Off His Back? Or Is Another 8.0 In The Cards?

Can a Fox Body Mustang street car, with a 5.3, run 7’s in the quarter? Dave has been chipping away at it and with a couple of 8.0s in his pocket he’s trying to crack the 7 second barrier...

Drag Car TIME CAPSULE with a Surprise – The One that Got Away From The Hot Rod Hoarder

Tommy Lee Byrd and his family have a pretty cool collection of old hot rods and drag cars. To a lot of people these wouldn’t be much to look at, because Tommy tends to leave them alone as much...

HOW TO CONTROL 12,000 HORSEPOWER in a Top Fuel Dragster! A David Freiburger Extra

If you know Clay Millican, then you know just how much of a regular car guy nut he is. The dude is awesome, and is always smiling and laughing and having a good time. I’ve known Clay for...

Nice Duda Is A Bad Bad Man! His 3000 Horsepower 23 Degree Headed Small Block Corvette Is The Fastest In The World

When Nick Duda shows up at a race, everyone pays attention. Not only because his Corvette is awesome looking, but also because he does things that nobody else does with a 23 degree headed small block...

This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 6: The Vintage Dragster Gets Front Hubs, Engine, Trans, And Seat Placement!

This cool vintage dragster project is going to be something fun, that’s for sure. As simple as it is, there are a lot of steps to making it right and lucky for us we get to see each and every...

This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 5: Narrowing A 9 Inch For The Vintage Dragster Rear And Installing Front Suspension

The Race of Gentleman has spurred a bunch of renewed excitement for traditional hot rod drags both on the dirt and sand, as well as on the dragstrip. They didn’t invent these events, but they have...

The Hot Rod Hoarder Featuring The DIXIE TWISTER And Other Cool Stuff at the Buford Auto Summit

The Buford Auto Summit is one cool event, and in the video below our friend Tommy Lee Byrd, aka the Hot Rod Hoarder, shows us all the cool stuff, and puts together a feature on the Dixie Twister...

Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Get’s A Front Suspension Redesign And Rear Upgrades Too!

If you missed it, Dane Thompson’s Maliboom smacked the wall in Oklahoma during Rocky Mountain Race Week a few months ago and he’s been thrashing on it since. Despite lots of conjecture, it turns...

The Holy Grail of Chevrolet Muscle – The SUPERCAR REUNION At Beech Bend Raceway Park In Bowling Green Did Not Disappoint!

Tommy Lee Byrd, aka The Hot Rod Hoarder on YouTube, was at the Supercar Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green and boy does he have some cool video to share! This is a special event with...

Stock Eliminator Greatness: Running 10s in a 1968 Mustang Coupe with NA Power Using Mostly 1968 Parts!

Stock Eliminator is a class of NHRA Drag Racing that is near and dear to my heart, because that is what I grew up with my dad racing. He ran his 1968 Z28 Camaro in F/Stock. When you see the class...

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...

LEGENDARY Racers and Cars at Brainerd Nostalgia Drag Race! Cool Nostalgia! Super Stocks, Pro Stocks, And More!

Old drag cars are awesome! You can call them nostalgic, vintage, whatever you want, but they are awesome. Take the Loose Caboose Road Runner, for example, and just look at how cool this car is today...

FAST – Factory Appearing Stock Tire Racing’s Frostbite Nationals! The Horsepower Depot BROKE Their 1967 L88 Corvette! 9 Second Vettes on STOCK TIRES! 427 Big Blocks Oh My!

If you aren’t familiar with Factory Appearing Stock Tire, then you are welcome because you are about to see what they are all about. We’re talking about big block powered muscle cars that...