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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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Raise The Roof: The Bus-Turned-Car-Hauler Program Continues On!

Earlier this year, we learned about one of the more ambitious projects we’ve taken notice to: the conversion of a 2005 Thomas bus into a half recreational vehicle/half car hauler setup. Using a...

SEMA 2019: Hoonigan’s Take On Las Vegas, From Their Burn Pit To The Show Floor!

In a few days, I’ll start sharing the good photos I took when I went back into the Las Vegas Convention Center after hours on Wednesday. After taking a dinner break to hang out with a friend...

LuxuryLiner: Regular Car Reviews vs. The 1970 Imperial LeBaron Sedan

One of the first cars to ever impress me with power was a 1973 Chrysler Newport. My late cousin Vance owned it, a two-door that was a rather unfortunate shade of brown with the funky paisley interior...

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Flowmaster FlowFX releases Toyota Tacoma Cat-back Systems – Toughen Your Toyota Up!

If you drive a 2005-2019 Toyota Tacoma, the Flowmaster division of Holley has just what you need to make more power and toughen your truck up. That’s right, FlowFX exhaust kits are not...

SEMA 2019: More Randomness, More Beautiful Paint Work

Is it safe to confess here? This year, I have to admit that in the grand scheme of things, there weren’t a lot of machines that really grabbed me like in years past at SEMA. There were good...

Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr Has Died At Age 89 – Brilliant Indy Mechanic and Crew Chief – 15 Race Winning Engines

(Photos: Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum) – There are few things more difficult in life than trying to live up to a legendary last name in the same industry where it was forged. Louis...

2019 Mopar Southern Classic Coverage: One Last Collection Of Photos From This Chrysler Powered Throwdown

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Somehow I managed to not include a single burnout photo in this group of pictures.  That was not my intention, but we know how the best of those can turn...

Richard Hammond Needs Your Help: He Bought A New Morgan And YOU Get To Pick The Interior Color – Seriously – Video

We know many things about Richard Hammond. We know that he loves American muscle cars, he like motorcycles, he gets attacked by May and Clarkson because of his tastes regarding certain automotive...

Rust Coagulation: Making An Old Chevy Truck A Little More Solid

One of the highlights of my annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas is that I get the chance to see friends and associates in the business that I wouldn’t normally see elsewhere. Case in point is Derek...

Pressure Building: Four Turbochargers And One Blower – This Volvo Will Run!

This isn’t a race car or a street car…this thing is an internet meme that came to life. You can almost see crude, hand-drawn characters yelling at each other. “Volvo racecar!”...

2019 PDRA World Finals – One Last Blast Of Images From Virginia Motorsports Park

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – There are certain things that happen at every “last race of the season” whether we’re talking about racers stepping up and delivering at their...

Drag Challenge 2019: Australia’s Grand Drag Racing Tour Kickoff Party!

As the leaves continue to fall and the frost continues to form on our quickly freezing arses, the Australians are just cracking their necks and preparing for the summer racing season....

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Post-SEMA Randomness

It’s been a week filled with travel, photography, glamour and cheap dinners, cars and reunions with friends and associates. And mercifully, it’s over. My poor work boots have never been...

SEMA 2019 Gallery: Morning Roaming, Including The Optima Alley

Is there such a thing as SEMA hangover? There’s the SEMA plague, which I think I managed to avoid this year. There’s the SEMA crunch, which I’m not going to be in danger of finding...