Stick Shifters! This Early 1970s Toy Commercial Has Us Thinking These Were The Best Drag Toys Ever
I had some really fun car and truck toys when I was a kid. Stuff that would drive and crawl and make noise, etc. Those were exceptionally fun days back then, using your imagination and playing with...
RacingJunk Find: Blue Oval Brute – This 1968 Ford F-350 Is A Mud Slinging Beast
If you only think a hot rod needs to sit low to the ground and hustle down the asphalt aisle as quickly as possible, you are really missing the point. Why? Because you’d never think that stuff...
Video: This LIVE NHRA Today From The 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals In Texas Is Awesome
Now THIS is fun drag racing TV, to us anyway. You are going to watch an episode of NHRA Today made at the Texas motorplex 26 years ago during the 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals in Texas. It is fun...
Awesome Video: Saving A 1934 Plymouth Hot Rod That Was Hidden In The Basement For Decades!
(Words and video by Tommy Lee Byrd) – In a time when it seems every barn, shed or field has been scoured, looking for the next great “barn find”, we’re pleased to announce that old cars...
Watch Justin Martin And His Nova Make The Quickest Limited Drag Radial Run In History 4.09!
Justin Martin was a solid player in the Limited Drag Radial category of competition at Diamond Pistons No Mercy last weekend. The car was rattling off numbers in the low ‘teens despite the...
2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure Car Show Photo Gallery: More Sunny Southern California Cars and Trucks
(Photos by Wes Allison) – Admittedly I have always been kind of obsessed with Southern California as this kind of promised land for hot rodding and stuff. Stripping away the “real...
2018 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Gallery: Photos From The Rainy Portion Of The Day – No One Melted
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Help me out here. I have never understood why people leave an outdoor car cruise/show when it’s raining unless it doesn’t have windows or a top or...
Don Garlits Picks His Six Favorite Swamp Rats And Tells Us Why!
As much as Don Garlits was defined by his slew of amazing performances on the track during his career, he was also defined by his cars. There were a total of 37 machines that carried the...
2018 Cynthiana Rod Run Photo Gallery: Muscle Car Coolness From Then and Now
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – If you like modern and older muscle-car era stuff then we’ve got three galleries that are right up your alley. I will mention a few in here that caught...
Quick Tech From COMP Cams: The Proper Way To Find Top Dead Center
Finding top dead center is a critical procedure for many facets of building and hot rodding an engine. Being able to be 100% sure that things are assembled correctly and that valve timing is set...
LS Killer: This Aussie Ford Falcon Has A Warmed Up Barra Inline 6 and It Goes 9s
In a country fully obsessed with LS swaps, LS performance, and LS bragging rights, it seems inconceivable that there would ever be a challenger to the king of cheap horsepower. That challenger comes...
‘Splosion Video: Mark Oswald Suffers A Titanic Boomer At The Texas Motorplex Circa 1990
This weekend, Mark Oswald will be crew chiefing the Matco U.S. Army top fuel dragster of Antron Brown but in 1990 he was a kid driving the Ford Motorcraft nitro funny cars and doing a fine job of it....
BARRIER BROKEN: Turbinator Becomes First Wheel Driven Car To Break 500mph!
Yesterday was one of the most incredible days in land speed racing and the storied history of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Dave Spangler, driving the Team Vesco Turbinator became the first human being...
