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FREE LIVESTREAM: PDRA Testing For This Weekend’s Maryland International Raceway Event! Live Testing Action.

We’ve got some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams are on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they get ready for this...

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They Built a BANNED F1 Car From the 70’s! Well Kinda, And It’s Awesome! Who Wants To Build One Of These?

I know I’m not alone in saying that the Tyrrell P34 is one of the coolest looking F1 cars ever produced, not only because the lines are good on it, but also because it’s a freak show with...

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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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The Dodge Phoenix Big-Block Build Continues! A Good Cause Requires A Lot Of Hard Work!

The last time we saw the 1963 Dodge Phoenix that Street Machine was building to take to the Running On Empty festival, an event in the town of Cobar that raises money for a WW1 monument and has a...

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Old School Drag Video: Here’s The 1999 IHRA Winternationals From Darlington Dragway!

From top fuel to mountain motor pro stock, this is a show that’ll have you smiling. For many, many years the IHRA opened their season with the Winternationals at Darlington Dragway in South...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Are You Getting Done This Winter?

Yeah, yeah, I know…winter doesn’t start until December 21st. You wanna know something? I don’t care. Far as I’m concerned, the moment the calendar says “December”,...

Unveiled: 2020 Jeep Gladiator – Welcome Back, Jeep Pickup!

The last Jeep J-series, was built in 1987, the last Jeep truck, the Comanche, ended in 1992, and the last “jeep”-based truck-style unit, the CJ-8 Scrambler, ended production in 1985. Ever...

Legends Video: The 2018 NHRA SEMA Breakfast Assembled Amato, Prudhomme, Bernstein, and Force – The Stories Flew!

There’s something awesome about getting legendary racers together and letting them yak. At the 2018 NHRA SEMA breakfast, four of the greatest drag racers ever were put on stage and effectively...

The Hoonicorn Was Supposed To Be A Maverick? Hoonigan Tells Some Secrets Behind Gymkhana!

After ten different Gymkhana videos that require tons of back support, lots of details and tons of planning to pull off properly, there’s bound to be some stories that haven’t been told...

2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photo Coverage: Sweet Cars And LOTS Of Great Parts!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We’d always been told the Pumpkin Run was large and that we ‘had’ to go.  This event is held at the Clermont County Fairgrounds in Owensville,...

Ride Swap: Jimmie Johnson Hopped In Fernando Alonso’s F1 Car and Alonoso Hopped Into Johnson’s Stock Car In Bahrain!

It is always cool when racers swap cars and have some fun. Inevitably it is done because of a sponsor connection or some overriding media concern but the fun still exists and the whole thing can be...

Number One On Our Christmas List: Check Out A Walk-Around Of The “Rerun” Chevrolet Camper From SEMA!

The 1972 Chevrolet C30 camper that was parked, well-hidden off of the far end of the Las Vegas Convention Center might be my most favorite vehicle from the 2018 SEMA show. “Rerun”, as...

Unhinged: The Road To Salvation Smells Of Ocean Spray And Evergreen Forests

Late 2009 was not a good time to be me. I was in the process of ending a marriage, I learned that my Army career was going to end well before I wanted it to end, and the world overall seemed to be...

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It’s Ford vs Plymouth vs Chevrolet In This 1966 Station Wagon Showdown – Narration By Lorne Green

Remember the good old days when car companies actually made cars? We live in an era now when seemingly every week we see news that car companies are discontinuing the production of, well, cars. Back...

Grand Theft Auto: You Can Still Get Into A Trans Am GTA Like This One Without Breaking The Bank!

Third-gen F-bodies often get typecasted as the ultimate mullet-mobile, but really, that is kind of an undeserved reputation. First off, the real mullet cars were the rubber-bumper second-generations....

Fox vs Trans-Maro Spectator Drags Mayhem: Getting Crazy And Bent Up At Beech Ridge Speedway

We have highlighted awesome spectator drags action from Beech Ridge Speedway in Maine for a few years now. The Carbon Videos channel is on top of all the action at that place and there are usually...

The GM Future Transformation: What Is Getting Cut Out Of The General’s Current System

DETROIT – General Motors (NYSE: GM) will accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the comprehensive strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, capitalize on the...