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OG SMALL TIRE RACING IN THE MOUNTAINS!!!! KILLER STREET AT ELK CREEK DRAGWAY JUNE 2026!!!!

Oooh yeah! Elk Creek Dragway is something special, and with racing like this we understand why. In this video you’ll see Killer Street 275/28 and more as the 5.30 and 6.30 index classes take...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Full Race | Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from WWT Raceway

Just a couple of weekss after the famed Indy 500, the IndyCar Series was back at it for another weekend of racing. This time it was at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 World Wide Technology Raceway...

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Finnegan’s 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Drag Car Build Is Getting Closer! Interior At Home. Check It Out.

I talked to Mike the other day and he said that they are seriously working on the Cadillac to get it on the road this year. Sure, there is a lot to do, but they keep chipping away at it and in the...

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They CLOSED a Public Road for a Street Race and Heavy Hitters Came Out! Cash Days Street Racing Greatness!

We’ve livestreamed a few city sanctioned street race events over the years, and have heard of a few others, but it never gets old to hear that folks want to see Cash Days street races to go...

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New Right-Angle Impact Totally Resets the Scoreboard! These Aren’t Supposed To Be This Good!

Right angle impacts have really made a splash recently, and if you are like me and think they are just an over hyped cordless ratchet, you’d be wrong. Yes, I said it, I was wrong. I love me...

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Eating Dirt: Serious Mud-Romper Mangling Footage From All Over The Place!

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” That’s the quote, right? The big dude in the corner who usually gets by on sheer intimidation factor alone can get walloped by the...

Because GM Wouldn’t Do It: 1979 Pontiac Grand Am With A 455

If you look back at some of my musings of Pontiac in the late 1970s, you will often see me refer to a civil war kind of mentality within the GM division. On one hand you had those who were all about...

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The Speculator: This 1973 Olds Omega Is For Sale, The Asking Price Is Optimistic, The Information Is Hopeful

We actually kind of dig this guy’s angle. If we were in the position to be selling a brown-ish 1973 Olds Omega with a decent number of options we’d be pulling out all the stops as well....

Building A Big Horsepower B58 Inline Six For Your Supra Or BMW? MAHLE Motorsport Has A Piston For You!

With a little less weight and little less compression than the factory piston, this new unit from MAHLE Motorsport is designed specifically for those hot rodders out there who are planning to cram...

Classic YouTube: LeMans 1966 And How Ken Miles Really Lost First Place

Between the Ford v Ferrari film and a general knowledge of the 1966 sweep at the 24 Hours of LeMans for Ford, you probably have a fair understand of what happened to Shelby American driver Ken Miles...

This 1965 Film – The Hot Rod Story Drag Racing – Is Officially The Best 1960s Drag Movie We’ve Seen

We know that we fall into the “this is the best old drag racing film that we’ve ever seen” trap far too often but the problem is that we see an incredible film that we have never...

Restrained Yet Deeply Customized, The “Volkstream” VW Bus Is Handcrafted Beauty

This is one of those SEMA vehicles from last year that caught me up for a moment…mainly because I had spent nearly most of the week walking by it not noticing it. When I walked down the aisle...

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That Good: The 1990 Corvette ZR1 Was Perhaps America’s First Legit Super Car – Fun Video

It’s pretty wild to think that the ZR1 Corvette turns 30 years old this year and it’s even wilder to think about what a revelation this car was back in 1990. With a 0-60 time clocked at...

Morning Symphony: The 11,000 RPM JUN-Powered Subaru BRZ

If you’re preparing to make some kind of Fast and Furious crack, shove it back into the “venom” folder from where it came. This Subaru BRZ might look the part of an extra on one of...

Life Goals: A Max Wedge Mopar And The Ramp Truck To Haul It On!

As much as it pains us to say it, driving a race car around on an open flatbed truck is a risky venture anymore. Too often, we’ve heard the stories of race car and workhorse disappearing into...

Unhinged: Maybe The Train Needs Another Look After All

Every single time I make the trek into Southern Illinois, I’m reminded that Amtrak really does still exist. I never give train travel much thought. Either I just want to drive it myself, or I...

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The Dragster Jerry Darien Won The 1981 Winternationals And March Meet In Is For Sale – Awesome Car!

If you are in the market for a cool, old dragster boy do we have a good find for you! This machine was built in 1976 and was raced by the legendary Jerry Darien, a guy who has had a near 50 year...

Morning Symphony: Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione – Nothing Sound Like A Ferrari V-12

Ferrari crafted just over 1,400 365 GTB/4 vehicles between 1968 and 1973. Out of that production, only a handful featured the lightweight body, the plexiglas windows, and even fewer featured the 450...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Should OEMs Start Thinking About Keeping Successful Models Instead Of Engineering New Ones?

Of all the vehicles I ever expected to see the buying public clamor for, a Chevrolet Astro is not on the last. Along with it’s GMC Safari twin, the S-truck based Astro and Safari vans had a...