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4th of July SALE! Visit Ridetech.com Between Now And July 7th for 10% Off Late Model Suspension During July 4th Weekend Sale!

That’s right gang, if you are looking for some real savings this 4th of July weekend, to celebrate 250 years of American pride, then now is your chance to save 10% off your late model...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage at Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Question of the Day: What’s the Coolest Factory Backed Race Car of All Time?

With the racing seasons of  Ford/Chevy/and Dodge factory efforts starting and  all three companies continuing to build factory race cars and sponsor race teams we wanted to quiz you to find out...

Rough Start: Alternative Studies With A 1968 Mercury Montego MX

From the moment I started to understand platform sharing, I couldn’t understand why one version was more expensive than the other. A Fox Mustang versus a Fox Thunderbird, or a Chevrolet Caprice...

Eyeballing A Modern LT1/LT4 Swap? Howell EFI Has Your LT1/LT4 Needs Covered! Harnesses Galore

More and more hot rodders are looking to the LT1 and LT4 engine packages for swaps into their classic iron. The most modern generation of small block Chevy contains more technology and more...

Room To Grow: NCM Motorsports Park Has Purchased An Additional 208 Acres Of Land For Potential Expansion

If you haven’t seen the size of NCM Motorsports Park in it’s current configuration, trust us, it’s pretty impressive. The road course, Kartplex, and open asphalt areas that can be...

2019 Grand National Roadster Show: Here’s The End Of Our Indoor Photos, More Outside Coverage To Come!

Well whether you wanted it to or not, our indoor coverage of the 2019 Grand National Roadster Show is coming to a screeching halt after this selection of images. The well has run dry, we have...

Boss Move: Yanking The Wheels On Your Licensing Pass In Your Turbo LS Chevy LUV

“Dude, don’t worry. If you wind up in prison, you just establish dominance. Find the biggest dude in the place and whoop his ass. Nobody will mess with you then.” Oh, to be young...

RacingJunk: Want To Be A Pro Stock Hero? Start With The Same Raw Chevrolet DRCE 3 Block They Do

A couple of weeks ago, Bruno Massel and I got to shoot a bunch of fun tv footage from the KB Racing shop in Mooresville, North Carolina. We made a shop tour video, shot multiple tech segments, and...

Big Comfy Beast: Who Wants A Four-Speed 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix?

“Personal Luxury Coupe”. See also: big, slower than it should be, overstuffed, pretentious, baroque, disco barge…do I need to continue? It is difficult to equate the change from the...

Kill It Like You Mean It: Rallycrossing A Beater LTD Until It Blows Up!

Come this Saturday, the Dirty Cougar will face down NCM Motorsports Park for Round 3 of this season’s King of the Heap series. I’ve had fun bringing the forlorn Mercury up to snuff, and...

Day Two PRO Winter Warm-Ups, ’18 Mello Yello Fuel Champs Lead The Pack!

(Photos by Big Bob Snyder) – Day two of the PRO Winter Warm-ups at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park brought out more teams, racecars and bikes wiping out the cobwebs. With only a handful of days...

2019 Grand National Roadster Show Photos: Yes, We’re Still Showing You Cool Stuff!

Weird station wagons, weird customs, weird people. Yeah, this show had some weird, but any good automotive event does, right? It gives you something to talk about with your buddies on the way home....

Morning Symphony: J. Malcom’s “Project Cheapskate” S-10 Tearing The Rears To Shreds!

A little less than a year ago, Justin Malcom decided that he was going to do a budget build up for himself. The car in question at the time was a G-body Monte Carlo and the budget was supposed to be...

Forget The Super Bowl This Year – Instead, Watch This Volvo Smartphone Game For A Chance To Win A Car Subscription!

The Super Bowl will be played this upcoming Sunday. In my household, my wife will be cheering on the New England Patriots while I’ll be anywhere else, not caring one bit. It’s a ball...

Rough Start: This Hillclimb Ready Monte Carlo Is Your Ticket To Heaven

One of my favorite race cars to ever appear at Pikes Peak is Layne Schranz’s 1997 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Ok, whether it was really a Monte Carlo or a stock car that got real Monte sheetmetal up...