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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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Throttle Therapy: This Petrolicious Feature On A 1965 Mustang Fastback Touches On Many Of The Reasons We All Love Cars

It’s insane to say that a car “helps” you, right? It’s crazy to say that the rolling hunk of steel, plastic, wood, and glass provides some service to better your mental and...

Throwback Speed: Some Of Our Favorite Old Car Websites Still Chugging Along In 2020!

(All images courtesy of their respective websites unless otherwise noted) Believe it or not, the internet as we know it today has been around for 30 years this year. While online bulletin boards and...

Finned Drums FTW: 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix – Tasty Bubbletop!

It’s actually kind of difficult to see this 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix as a car the size of a Chevrolet Impala. It looks tauter, smaller, more nimble. But it’s true…the...

Six For Six: Building A Buick V6 Street Screamer Out Of Grandpa’s Car

From mid-2005 to mid-2009, the main driver in my fleet was a 2001 Buick Regal GS Joseph Abboud Edition. How did I end up with a PGA rental special? When gasoline went from $1.29 a gallon to over...

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Monster Vs. Mayhem: Hoonigan’s ’55 Chevy Against A Legit Monster Truck At The Drag Strip

Any and every time I see a monster truck on something that isn’t dirt or a pile of crap car that’s half-flat already, it looks…wrong, somehow. It shouldn’t, but seriously, any...

Morning Symphony: Test And Tune Trepidation

It’s five days until Beech Bend opens for business. Five days until the first test-and-tune. The first drag racing coverage I shoot in what will be another wild year of action, another round of...

Cleaning Up The Desert With BFGoodrich And The Mint 400 – And You Can Enter To Win A Free Set Of Tires!

I might not be a natural child thereof, but out of all the variations of Earth I’ve seen to date, the American Southwest is the one that feels the most like home. Huge skies, Joshua trees and...

The Monday Shift: Make A 9-Second Pass In A Lenco Equipped 1933 Willys

This video features a quarter mile pass from inside a tiny 1933 Willys coupe. The car is apparently powered by a Ford big block engine and backed with a four speed Lenco transmission. It sounds...

Classic YouTube: Chuck “Malibu” Aaron Flying The Red Bull MBB Bo 105 Stunt Helicopter – No Heli Should Be Able To Do These Stunts!

What you will see here is so far out of the normal for a helicopter and helicopter pilot that it is almost beyond belief. The pilot is Chuck Aaron, call sign “Malibu”, and he is one of...

Throwing Good Towards Bad: Stuffing A Barra Six Into A 1976 Ford Granada

Oh, look…it’s the car I love to hate. If you’ve never seen me write about one of these before, I’ll make it plain: the 1970s Ford Granada, Mercury Monarch and Lincoln...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Keep A Tally On The Cost Of Your Project?

When I first started building the 1981 Dodge Mirada I scored for $650 in the fall of 2009, I decided to keep a running total of the money I spent on the car. I didn’t have any reason to…I...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Missing Porsches For Club Money

Another week down, another week closer to warmer weather and more action. We can’t wait…in fact, we haven’t! Chad has been out at the ECTA Invitational at Spaceport America...

Watch This Pro Stock Semi Pulling Truck Called Bad Attitude Hike The Front Wheel At The Start And Never Put It Down – Torque At Work!

My favorite competitive beast of burden is a pro stock semi pulling truck. Why? They look all the world like over the road trucks and have immense power, cool names, and many of them have enough...

Here’s Every Round Of Pro275 Eliminations From Lights Out 11 At South Georgia Motorsports Park!

Pro275, the newest class in 275 drag radial racing, is the king of the small tires. Taking everything from Radial vs The World, but on a smaller tire, this class promises to be one of the harder to...