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Sick Week Day 4 Video: A Full Day of Racing Brings NEW Leaders, WRECKS & Blown Engines For Veterans And Newbies Alike

After a long drive, and a rained out day of crappy weather the past two days, racers were really looking forward to Race Day 4. Unfortunately for some they pushed it just a bit too far and that means...

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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026 REPLAY: Watch Every Race From King of the Hammers 2026 RIGHT HERE! Every Livestream Is Right Here To Replay

This is it, the biggest and baddest of the bad attacking the rocks, sand, and dirt at Johnson Valley’s King of the Hammers! This is what all the week leads up to and is what many say is the...

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Sick Week 2026 Video With Alex Taylor Racing: Day 4 Racing Action Means Some Carnage, Some Scares, And More!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 4 video blog post from Sick Week 2026 and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, as well as Alex Taylor and the ATR crew are...

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NHRA 75th Anniversary Classics: Here Is The Complete 1976 NHRA Gatornationals TV Broadcast – Awesome Historic Action!

The National Hot Rod Association is celebrating 75 years of drag racing in 2026 and that means some special NHRA 75th Classics for the YouTube channel. One of the greats is this 1976 edition of the...

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Day 10: Shannon and Jess Campbell’s King of the Hammers 2026 Daily Adventures: Watch Shannon In King of the Hammers 2026 With In Car Video And More Right Here!

We shared some of Shannon Campbell’s history at King of the Hammers the other day, and you can use the link below to check that out, but here are Shannon’s Daily Updates from the Lakebed...

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Sick Week 2026 Video With KSR and Alex Taylor Racing: 370 Miles And Then Rain Was Not How This Stop Was Supposed To Go!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 3 video blog post from Sick Week 2026 and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, Alex Taylor, and the Drag Drive Repeat boys are...

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This Chrysler Promotional Film For The Dodge Power Wagon Is Awesome – WWII Was Fresh On Their Mind

There are few vehicle nameplates that we associate more with WWII than Jeep and Power Wagon. There’s something just totally awesome about these tough as nails trucks that wee built to meet the...

Automotive Design Master Marcello Gandini Reflects On His Time With Alejandro de Tomaso

Marcello Gandini can pen a car’s beauty without thinking twice…his lifetime’s career work is a choice list of the best cuts from Italy: the Alfa Romeo Montreal, the Bugatti EB110,...

1959 Drag Racing Video: Industrial City Drag Strip In Henderson, Nevada Was Where Vegas Drag Racing Blew Up

Industrial City Drag Strip was the second place that hardcore hot rodders plied their trade of speed in the Las Vegas area. Located in Henderson and built as a bare bones strip for completion by...

The Bullet Holes Add Character: Check Out The Story On This Valiant Pacer!

I’ve seen them in Washington, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and plenty of other locations: a car that for some reason or another, was absolutely killed, stripped of any semblance of...

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Watch Andrew Alepa’s Radial vs The World Corvette Make More Than 5,200hp On The Hub Dyno!

It’s really hard to explain to someone how incredible Radial vs the World drag racing is until they see it. No, these cars do not have the raw insanity that nitro cars do, but they perform in...

Classic YouTube: Student Drivers In The AMC Rebel, Proving It Can Take The Ultimate Abuse!

AMC might have been trying to shake their small, economy car image for 1969, but they knew better than to even shy away from their reputation for making anvils wearing license plates. Regardless of...

Impulse Purchase: What Would You Do With A Dirt-Cheap Checker Aerobus?

Unless you have enough cash to burn that you don’t really care what you spend it on, a car should not qualify as an “impulse purchase”. You know what does qualify? A candy bar, a...

Old School Drag Action Photos: Action Images From The Little River Dragway Vintage Drags!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – When it comes to cool drag strips, Little River Dragway in Texas is near the top. Operating since 1957, this place is a time warp to a no-frills era where the main...

The Jokes Write Themselves: 44,000 Pounds Of Steel Balls Flopped Out Of A Truck In Seattle

A key point for any driver to ram into the back of their brain about driving is “expect the unexpected”. Once you get comfortable behind the wheel, you get complacent. Once you get...

Pomona Swap Meet October 2018 Photos: More Cool Cars and Trucks For Sale

(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re back with more potential, more hopes and dream, more heartache and bad decisions. Yes, we are back with more swap meet coverage from the massive Pomona...

Vintage Drag Racing Film: Long Before The Strip They Were Drag Racing In Nevada

When The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was built in the not too distant past, it was no so much the introduction of drag racing to Las Vegas but it surely was the continuation of the...

Hooker Blackheart Stainless Shorty Headers For CTS-V Caddys Are Now Available.

I grew up a Cadillac fan, and still love them. But never, and I mean never, growing up did I expect that Cadillac would come to the high performance market in the way they have with the V line of...

Morning Symphony: The Magic Of Audi’s Turbocharged Five Cylinder

Would you believe that the Audi Quattro exists purely because of the Volkswagen Thing? It’s true: in the late 1960s the German military had been trying to create a vehicle to replace many of...

The Purple People Eater: How Often Would You Drive This 1974 Chevrolet LUV?

For a section of time in the mid-1990s, my stepfather was enamored with Chevrolet LUV pickup trucks. One was slammed on it’s nuts and was a sprightly little thing, dressed in primer gray all...