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Mad Thrash Video: Watch Stevie Fast And Crew Perform A Time Lapse Engine Swap In Three Minutes (70 Real Time)
There’s no messing around at the track when you are a professional level drag racer. The difference between winning races in the NHRA E3 Spark Plugs pro modified category and losing them is...
Flying Cars Video: Free Life Films Collection Of Cars Launching Skyward Is Impressively Insane
The modern landscape of drag racing looks lots different than it did even 20 years ago, especially when we look at performance. Full bodied cars on comparatively tiny rear tires are doing things that...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
The Bumper Doesn’t Count As A Wheelie Bar! This Nitrous Small-Block Malibu Launches Hard!
The first time your racing machine tries to make the move from horizontal to vertical and nearly succeeds is the point where wheelie bars should really be considered. You can be forgiven if...
Cheap Racing LUV: Broke Bastard Garage Is Building A Chevrolet LUV For The Zip-Tie Drags!
If you didn’t know, Chevrolet LUV pickup trucks are a strange little kink around BangShift. Chad’s son Cole is building a monster out of one and I’ve got a pretty strong history...
The Proper Compromise: Legal Street Drags In Hartshorne, Oklahoma
If there is a sure-fire way to get opinions flying and tempers simmering up to a boil, it’s the discussion of street racing. Some have great memories of stoplight drags and the quiet street in...
Dick LaHaie Has Died At Age 76 – Relive A Top Fuel Win With He and Kim From 1985 – A True Legend
He was one of drag racing’s true gentlemen. Dick LaHaie was a racer that it was nearly impossible to root against. He and his daughter Kim were sentimental favorites during their rise to top...
Takeoff Is Approved: 1/8th Mile Airport Runway Racing From Ballarat
If you go back into the early days of drag racing, you will find that World War II had a strong influence on the motorsport. Don’t just blankly stare the screen, it’s the truth: GIs who...
Look To The Sky: Free Life Films Shows Off The Wildest Rides Of 2018!
December is the start of many things: holiday music, wrapping paper hell, the time when your kids bring you lists of stuff that need to be decoded and checked to see what your budget will allow....
The Other Racing Long Car: Check Out This 1980s Film Of Jim Jet Nelson’s Jet Limo At Great Lakes Dragaway
With McTaggart showing us all the way to have big time fun with a germ infested, cast aside, potential rolling meth lab in the form of his Cadillac limo, it triggered a memory about another racing...
Cool Drag Video: This 1981 Footage From A Track Rental At OCIR Is Awesome!
This is the type of drag racing video that you really have to kind of be a dork to fully enjoy, BUT, anyone that was live in 1981 will appreciate it as well. You are going to watch some shockingly...
Historic Video: Watch The Public Debut And First Run Of Art Arfons’ Cyclops In 1961
Some racers are defined by their creations, some are defined by their success, others are defined by their ability to come up with new ideas and employ them in ways that others haven’t been...
Hot Saw Action! Watch Chainsaws Powered By V8s, Four Bangers, and More In Competition
It’s the part of any lumberjack competition that gearheads love. Its’s a place where creativity and wackiness being supreme, and it is a place where the objective is like any other drag...
Watch The 1980 Drag Racing Documentary Life In The Quick Lane Right Here
We love old drag racing films around here and we know you love them too so that’s why when we found this three part film called “Life in the Quick Lane” which was made in 1980 on...