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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Better Than Rain-X?! Is This The Best Windshield Water Repellent Windshield Coating Ever? 10 Brands Tested!

I am a big fan of Rain-X. I own, and have owned, a few vehicles that don’t have windshield wipers at all and have found that if you apply it right and often enough it works wonders. I’ve...

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Our Final Gallery of 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Pro Mods, Dragsters, Door Cars, And So Much More!

Here’s gallery #4, our final gallery of PDRA East Coast Nationals action, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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The Wild 1981-1985 Era Of Formula One Cars Race At Monaco Again! 1980s F1 Gold at the 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix!

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photos: Our River of Images Keeps Right On Flowing – Photos Here!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So this gallery and the next are made up of the movers of stuff.  These days most of these rarely carry more than a cooler and a chair or two, but I...

Classic YouTube: The 1978 Ford LTD II, Sold By Ron Burgundy Himself

In the beginning, there was Fairlane. Fairlane begat Torino, Torino begat Elite, and Elite begat LTD II. Ford’s midsizer packed on the pounds almost in time with Elvis himself as the 1970s...

The Other Racing Long Car: Check Out This 1980s Film Of Jim Jet Nelson’s Jet Limo At Great Lakes Dragaway

With McTaggart showing us all the way to have big time fun with a germ infested, cast aside, potential rolling meth lab in the form of his Cadillac limo, it triggered a memory about another racing...

This Compilation of 1990s Monster Truck Crashes Captures The Wildest Era Of Monster Truck Competition

The other day I posted a photo on my Instagram account (@BrianLohnes) of an old monster truck and one of the responses it got was a guy saying, “They actually raced these?” At first I was...

eBay Find: This Complete 340 6-Pack Intake and Carbs Would Look Radical On Your Chrysler Small Block

The rev-happy Chrysler small block was one of the most underrated little engines of the muscle car era. With hilariously low horsepower listings of 275 in 4bbl form and 290 in 6bbl form, the small...

This ProCharged, Manual-Swapped Chrysler 300C’s Hillclimb Story Is Too Cool!

First off, I’m happy that I get to add another manual-swapped Chrysler to the list in my head. This car joins the V-10-swapped drift machine in the U.K., and both of the Chryslers that...

2018 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship Photos: The Hardcore Action From VIR Was Big Fun!

(Photos by David Whealon) – When it comes to motorsports, we are not sure sports car racing has had a better era to flourish in. There are loads of cars bring produced now that play to the...

Unhinged: The Difference Between A Simple Project And Mechanical Hell With Boxes Of Parts

My first project car was my fourth car, a 1979 Chevrolet Caprice coupe. I was at the younger end of fifteen years old and I had this image in my head for how I wanted the car to look, act and feel....

Wait…A What? This Four Door 1978 Cougar Is A Rare Find – Maybe Not A Good Find But Certainly A Rare Find

(By Greg Rourke) – When I (an almost 60 year old gearhead) think of the Mercury Cougar, I think of the first cousin to the Mustang. Dyno Don’s funny cars and Fast Eddie’s Pro...

Morning Symphony: 10,000 RPM Track Attack With A Group B Mazda RX-7

Mazda’s place in rally wasn’t well established in the early 1980s. It didn’t take long to realize that the company had effectively brought a knife to the kind of gunfight where an...

2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photos: More Awesome From The Fall Gathering To End All Fall Gatherings!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I’ve never made it a secret that my first and strongest attraction to cars is the pre-49 stuff.  It’s what I grew up around and have always been drawn...

Down But Not Out, Round Two: Country Classic Cars In Illinois Gets Struck By A Tornado

(Photos: St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Last August, the scene in Staunton, Illinois was nightmare fuel for any gearhead: Country Classic Cars, a dealership that specializes in classic vehicles with a...

2018 Houston Autorama Photos: Some Of The Baddest Cars In The Lonestar State Right Here!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – There are a few things we know about Texas. They love drag racing, they can BBQ like nobody’s business, and hot damn can they build a hot rod or two! Our...

The Little Red Death Wagon: Just In Case You Wanted A Project Idea For The Winter!

Not counting the one time I tried to steal my aunt’s Mustang II when I was in kindergarten, I feel confident in saying that most of us got at least one of, if not our first driving lesson, at...

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