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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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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...

You Will Not Believe That This Pro Mod Crash Ended With The Car On All 4 Wheels And The Driver Walking Away

We see a lot of crazy crashes, after all we’re at the dragstrip more than most anyone you know. And sometimes it is a wonder that someone could survive some of them. But it is rare that someone...

BangShift Tune-Up: “My Sweet Shadow” by In Flames (2004)

The October Rush has hit BangShift Mid-West again. In one corner of the yard sits the Cadillac Limo, which has been entered in for at least one King of the Heap event at NCM Motorsports Park, which...

Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Goodguys Lone Star Nationals At Texas Motor Speedway

(Photos by Rob Bennett) This is it, the last one, there will be no more. If you missed any of our photos from the Goodguys Lone Star Nationals, then click the link below to see them all. But if you...

Behind The Scenes: This Is How Carbon Fiber Race Parts Are Made.

Carbon fiber race parts are not cheap! We all wish they weren’t, but they are, but if you see just how they go together you’ll understand why. Fiberglass race parts take a lot of work to...

Here’s A Craigslist Ad For A C-10 That You Are Not Likely To Soon Forget

People send in Craigslist ads and story ideas to us all the time. And sometimes people send us funny Craigslist ads. Often those funny ads are too “colorful” in the language department to...

Forces Of Time: Does A Properly Prepared 1989 Ford Thunderbird SC Have A Draw?

Everyone always wants to make a crack about building the wrong car, until someone puts together the “wrong car” the right way. Ever notice that? Nobody liked 1973-77 Chevelles, it seemed,...

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A Different Kind Of Fairmont: Paul Hamilton’s XA Ford Is A Violent Handful!

There were Ford Fairmonts before the Fox body. They look an awful lot like Mad Max’s Pursuit Special and are not common in the United States. In fact, I’ve personally only seen one, ever...

The Mickey Thompson Million Dollar Bracket Race Is LIVE Right Here!

This is the 23rd year of The Million, one of the richest purse events in the history of drag racing, and everybody that is anybody is on site trying to take home the big bucks at this 4 day...