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The Last of our Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our last 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 to...

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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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Robin Shutes Onboard Video Pikes Peak 2026. 2nd Overall, 1st in Super Unlimited, and Sets the All Time Rear Wheel Drive Record!

If you are like me you are going to watch this video and think how much fun it seems it would be to be driving, and also that this dude could have been going even faster. Yeah, that’s not a...

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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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GM Is Asking The Government To Increase The Gas Mileage Standard And More…Thoughts?

It’s often easy to say that manufacturers don’t care about consumers, so long as the money is filling the coffers. Not entirely wrong, it is? As long as people are lining up to buy...

Here Are Friday’s Number One Qualifiers From The NHRA Toyota Nationals In Las Vegas

NHRA’s Toyota Nationals is Round 23 of 24 in NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and fans from all over the west have flocked to Las Vegas for this one. They are hoping to see Championship...

A Home-Built RV That Isn’t Scary! This 1942 Chevrolet G506 Army Truck Is Beautiful!

World War II ramped up manufacturing in the United States like nothing else had before. Factories cranked out ships, planes, trains and trucks by the millions in the name of the War Effort. Everyone...

Records Fell Like Flies At The Southern California Timing Association’s First El Mirage Meet Of Fall

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Man the conditions at El Mirage could not have been much better this past weekend! I’ve been to El Mirage a bunch of times and can’t remember it being more...

The Exhumation: The 1983 Chrysler LeBaron That Got Buried Gets Dug Up! Will It Start, And Will It Talk?

At the beginning of this year, we showed you one man’s final answer for a K-car that proved to be too much to tolerate. Tyler Hoover of Hoovies’ Garage bought this 1983 Chrysler LeBaron...

Nothing But Cars For Sale And On Parade At The Pomona Swap Meet

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) The Pomona Swap Meet was huge and awesome, as usual, which is why we always go! It’s a riot hanging out with friends, looking at cool parts, laughing at stuff we find,...

Big Rigs, Big Rigs, And More Big Rigs From The Great American Trucking Show In Dallas

(Photos by Rob Bennett) The Great American Trucking Show is like the SEMA Show of Big Rigs. With over 500 exhibitors, representing more than 52,000 trucking industry products, and a truck show that...

27th NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion Crowns Event & Series Champions!

  (Photos by Dyan Lover and Darr Hawthorne) – Last weekend’s 27th California Hot Rod Reunion finished up competition at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, crowning not only event winners but also...

This Australian Dodge Phoenix Is Going From Derelict To Big-Block Cruiser For A Cause!

First off, how surprised are you that a 1963 Dodge of any type was in Australia as a local-sale car, complete with right-hand drive? All of the American manufacturers stuck their nose into the...

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Drive Green: A 1977 AMC Hornet AMX That Was Still Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Musclecar!

The true pinnacle of Malaise might be about 1980, but 1977 wasn’t that great, either. Pontiac fans were doing well enough, the Z28 Camaro had returned after a two-year hiatus, and if you knew...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest City in America That Has A Race Track?

As I’m writing this from a hotel room in Las Vegas before the 2018 NHRA Toyota Nationals get kicked off around here, it got me to thinking. There are a load of cool cities that have race tracks...

Richard Okerman’s Super Gas Wreck From 2004 Is Proof That No Matter The Speed Safety Gear Is Paramount

So many people want to complain and generally whine about safety equipment in race cars. At a recent event I was at, there were probably a dozen guys who came to the tower complaining because they...

Unhinged: Don’t Let The Television Ad Titilate You Too Much, Now…

So this happened: in the United Kingdom, Ford, FCA and Nissan recently had their advertisements banned because, according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), they were too much for viewers...

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2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Swap Meet Photo Coverage : Parts, Pieces, Cars, Trucks, and More!

(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, OH. ...