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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

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! We’ll have all the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $100,000 SATURDAY!

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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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Two On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More!

Here’s our 2nd gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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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 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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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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Watch This Wild Video Of A Train Cruising The Streets Of Chicago

(By Greg Rourke) – Chicago has always been a railroad town. Lots of railroads congregated here, and many still do. Railroads often had branch lines and industrial spurs to service businesses...

Strange Flex, But Ok: 1998 Chevrolet Tahoe 2-Door, With Manual Transmission, Duals, And LS Swap

I swear, readers, I was not trying to find the weird stuff when I found this thing. I promise. What I was looking for, honestly, was a 1992-1998 Chevrolet Blazer or Tahoe that had two doors and three...

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Buy It: The 1965 Koch Special Is An Incredible Window Into The Era Of Homebuilt American Sports Race Cars

When most people bemoan the loss of the “good ol’ days” of racing they are talking about drag racing and how much stuff has changed over the years in terms of technology, rules, and...

Unveiled: Tesla Cybertruck – Who Ordered The DeLorean Crossover?

On one hand, it’s easy to count how many times Tesla was underrated, expected to fail, seen as a hopeless money pit and wound up delivering. The first Roadster, the Model S, Model 3, Model...

Random Car Review: The Chrysler Kit Car Program – The Original Saturday Night Special

It is strange to picture just how incompetent management inside of Chrysler actually was during the 1970s. Lynn Townsend, who had been a strong benefit to Chrysler after the disastrous 1957 model...

The “WTF?!” Files: 1JZ-Swapped Ford Taurus – Um…What?!

The Ford Taurus has a fantastic reputation from the moment it was introduced as Ford’s eye to the future of the family car for 1986 through 1995. After that, things went…well, okay, they...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: Is There Really A Justification For The V8?

I hear the buzzing, I see the nest perfectly fine, and yet I’m still picking up the stick and preparing to swing. It seems like the perfect time to smack the hornet’s nest with this...

Smoking Hot: Five Corvettes At Fire Sale Prices!

I don’t need to know the person who wrote this ad to understand what is going through their mind. The listing and the pictures say it all: five Corvettes – a 1961, a 1964, a 1970, a 1972,...

Get Your Popcorn: General Motors Just Filed A RICO Lawsuit Against FCA!

Ladies and gentlemen, settle down and prepare to witness a very entertaining spectacle. On November 20, 2019, General Motors filed a RICO lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, claiming that FCA...

Tough Ride: This Look Back At The Wreck Frank Soldridge Had In His ProLine Powered Mustang At Sweet 16 Is Hardcore

Hans at Free Life Films is one of the hardest hustlers in the drag racing video game. This is a guy who has amassed a huge archive of footage from any number of different events. He is a staple at...

Incredible: Jianna Salinas’ NHRA Finals Victory Was Among The Most Improbably Awesome In History (Video)

There are ways to get your first win and then there’s how Jianna Salinas did it at the 2019 NHRA Finals. Not only was it her first win, it was on a deciding pass for the world championship of...

Million Dollar Baby: This Ferrari 250 GTE/GTO Reconstruction Is An Interesting Piece Of History

The Ferrari 250 GTO is the most valuable car in the world. The few that have been sold at auction bring tens of millions of dollars and they escalate in value each time one of the rare machines is...

Finnegan’s Winter Project: Getting His Twin-Turbo Jet Boat Closer To The Water!

For quite a bit of time now, most of what we’ve seen out of Mike Finnegan has involved his 1955 Chevrolet, “Blasphemi”, and his racing trips that occur in-between rebuilds of the...

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Money No Object: 1966 Chevrolet Caprice 427 – Aiming Much Higher

It’s 1966, and while some understand what’s going on, it’ll be a couple more years before the first musclecar era goes from low-key to buck wild. Chevelles, Polaras,...