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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Show and Go: This 1986 Pulling Footage Rules Because Of Awesome Trucks, Big Revs, and Showmanship

Now this is some awesome video fun! Let’s take a trip back to 1986 and act like a fly on the wall of this truck pull. The class we are going to watch is the 6,200lb Modified four wheel drive...

Last Race Standing: PDRA Postpones Season Opening East Coast Nationals At GALOT Motorsports Park Due To Pandemic

The last major event on the United States drag racing schedule that was still hanging into a scheduled spot has been postponed. PDRA series officials announced the other day that their season opening...

Old Haunting: 1982 Dodge Mirada Nostalgia Pro Stocker – Add Motor And Go

I saw my first Dodge Mirada in a Colorado Springs junkyard in late 2000. I raided the turbine wheels off of the bronze machine, a car that might have been loved at one point but had since been put...

Muscle Wagon: Americans Seem Destined To Perpetual Annoyance Over The Lack Of An Audi RS4 Avant In Showrooms

(By Tom Lohnes) – Audi’s Avant series is about the most lusted for series of automobiles in America that we’ve been limited on getting. The wagons have much better styling than their...

Dissection Time: The Mechanical Fuel Pump – Anvil-Simple In Detail!

It’s taken a couple of days and more cleaner than I’ve ever used in my lifetime on only half an engine, but it appears that the “melted ice cream” sludge that coated...

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Drag Racing Update Video: What Happened In Drag Racing Last Week? More Than You Think!

In my work for the NHRA, I have been keeping tabs on stuff that’s been going on around the sport of drag racing. While we might not be racing currently, it doesn’t mean that...

Classic YouTube: Bob Mayer Versus The 1978 Mercury Zephyr

The aspirations were high for the platform that debuted in 1978 as the Fox chassis. Originally meant to be a “world car” design that would replace the American Ford Falcon and Pinto, the...

Misery 2: Mighty Car Mods’ Toyota MR2 Is Proving To Be A Rusty Nightmare

As much as anybody could bitch about any car they are actively turning wrenches on, some cars are more of a nightmare than others, aren’t they? Third-gen F-bodies and their spark plugs,...

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Vintage Drag Racing Video: 8mm Footage Set To Classical Music From The 1964 NHRA US Nationals!

This is one of those videos that you watch when you know you have the drag racing thing bad. Why? Well it is some really amazing 8mm footage set to classical music from the 1964 NHRA Nationals. The...

Quarantine Project Corner: Make Your Own BBS RS Wheel Out Of A Steel Wheel?

How’s your extended cabin fever going? Hopefully you haven’t eaten all of the snacks yet, and that you are doing a proper job of rationing the toilet paper you may have been hoarding....

Ride On The Roll Bar Of An Awesome 1960s Formula Junior At Goodwood – Small Engine, No Weight, and Speed!

We love the minimalist nature of the 1960s Formula One cars. Sure, they were dangerous as hell and could not survive a rough contact with curbing let alone a shunt with a fixed object but they sure...

QuarantinePiece Theater: This 1967 Massey Ferguson Film Called “The Red Giants” Is Awesome

Previously on QuarantinePiece Theater I have showed you a few classic drag racing films. Today? Today we’re heading into the fields with this killer 1967 Massey Ferguson film called “The...

The 1983 Chevy Blazer Was The Right SUV For The Time And They Sold Like It!

Automotive history is an interesting thing because so often we focus on the failures more than the successes. It’s actually more interested to dissect something that did not work than to go...

This Vintage AMC TV Spot For The AMX Shows That Even American Motors Wasn’t Past Calling Out Others

“The Ugly American”. You’ve no doubt heard the phrase, which describes the obnoxious, loud and frankly rude behavior stereotypes that a lot of foreign countries have about American...