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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Flames Up Video! This Look Back At Craziness During The 2019 Pulling Season is Truly Awesome

This is not exactly what you’d call a “best of” video. Instead you’d call it a “bucks up” video because everyone featured in it had to lay down some seriously...

100% BangShift Approved: This 1964 Opel Kadett Wagon Is Kind of Weird, Kind Of Rough, and 100% Totally Awesome

The land of old drag race cars can be a scary one. It can also be a boring and repetitive one as well. The car you see here is neither scary nor boring, in fact it is one of the neatest little gems...

Drag Racing Action Coverage: Race Report And Killer Photos From The 2019 Fall Mad Mule Event at GALOT Motorsports Park

(Words by Greg Parker/ Photos by David Whealon and Benoit Pigeon) When the Mad Mule Shootout weekend comes to GALOT Motorsports Park, it never fails to bring the best racing. Seven different classes...

2019 Keeneland Concours D’Elegance Coverage: A Collection Of Everything European!

(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – The featured marque of this year’s show is Aston Martin and several were in attendance.  The extent of my knowledge of the breed is limited to knowing...

2019 Mopar Southern Classic Coverage: More Tire Smoke And Killer Chryslers Drag Racing In Kentucky!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The phrase ‘Mopar or no car’ is manifest in the folks wailing and wrenching on their machines at this event.  Anyone can see their pride for the...

Sidecar Motorcross…Because Nothing Makes A Dangerous Sport Better Than Sharing The Fun With A Friend!

Hopping on a dirt bike, getting onto a track with a handful of like-minded lunatics, and blasting around until you either finish the race, finish off the bike or end up in the back of the meat wagon...

Unveiled: 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – 760 Horsepower, Can Hit Tens In The Quarter

I can imagine a scene in an office somewhere near Detroit: a photo is thumb-tacked to the face of a dartboard. The image: a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. 707 horsepower of “America, F-...

Big Body Alert: 1992 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon – The Stormtrooper Mover

When Chevrolet redesigned the Caprice for 1991, it could be argued that they really missed the mark. Compared to the taut, trim and boxy 1991 car, the 1992 car looked like a flabby potato. At least,...

Classic YouTube: The 1940 Ford – Technological Advancements Early On In Cars

Every year, manufacturers trot out new cars and new features. Digital gauges, pop-up headlights, sound systems that can shake your brain inside of your skull, power everything, plusher this, quieter...

A Proper Test: Which Of The 1992 BTCC Race Cars Was The Best?

At the final race of the 1992 British Touring Car Championship, the racing was better than just about any NASCAR race of the last thirty years. The battle between Steve Soper, John Cleland, Will Hoy...

NTPA Pulling Action Photos: More Cool Photos, More Flying Clay, and More Late Fall Pulling Fun!

(Photos by David Whealon) – Last week we showed you the front half of David Whealon’s killer photo collection he shot at the NTPA pull during the North Carolina State Fair. Well, today...

Show Coverage: 2019 Mopar Southern Classic at Clay City Dragway- Some Awesome Chrysler Action!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So, I broke my long-time rule of not covering or attending model/make specific events.  It was my birthday and I wanted to do something car-related and I...

Factory Freak or Fanciful Fraud? Did This 1973 International Travelall Really Come With A 3-53 Detroit Diesel And A 5-Speed?

Make no mistake about it, we think that this truck is 100% bad ass. We’re also not throwing rocks at the seller for advertising the rig as he is. We’re guessing that he was told the same...

Foose on Design: Chip Foose Walks Us Through Why The 1932 Ford Became An Icon

This is a brilliant, BRILLIANT video. Hagerty gets credit for making this “Foose on Design” footage (which we hope will become a series) where one one of the best known automotive design...