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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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2018 Houston Autorama: More Texas Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, and Trucks – Check Out The Images

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yeah, that’s a crazy Gremlin race car. What’s it to ya?! The Houston Autorama is not just all about some sort of collection of big dollars show cars,...

Money No Object: 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra R With Sincere Racing Pedigree

The fun thing about getting older as a car freak is that you get to see whether or not your suspicions on which cars would be great and which cars won’t be was an accurate guess or the ultimate...

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...