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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals 2018 Gallery: Our Final Look From This Year’s Gathering Of The Classic Chevrolets!

The 2018 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals lived up to the expectations, populations, and car counts that have been a hallmark of the show ever since it first came to Beech Bend a few years ago. For days,...

Will It Grip? The Hoonigans Try To Launch A Rally Car On A Ton Of Dish Soap!

If you have never seen a late-model rally car launch from a standstill, you need to find the nearest event to you and treat yourself. Those hyperactive little screamers go from nothing to ballistic...

Not Malaise Yet: This 1973 Plymouth Road Runner Was Still Trying To Stay True

Sitting on a used car lot in Colorado Springs in the spring of 2000 was the dead-ringer clone to this car. A bronze 1973 Plymouth Road Runner, 340/auto, with the exhaust tips, Slapstick-shifted...

Make It Better: MCM Starts The Rebuild Of The “2Sexy” Mitsubishi – Engine Upgrade Time!

It’s one thing to spend time, money and effort on a car that any and everyone would agree is worth the effort. But what about when someone finds a car they love, but nobody else does? They...

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American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch A Bad Ass Run 5.70s In The Eighth With A Screaming Small Block 4-Speed Camaro

This is a 62-year old dude named Kurt who has himself one nasty Camaro. The car runs deep into the 5.70s in the eighth mile, which translates in the 8.90s on a quarter mile track. It has a...

Morning Symphony: Hillclimbing In An Opel Kadett

This is the case for the small car, the little four-banger that’s an absolute featherweight. What you are looking at is an Opel Kadett C, a car that doesn’t look like it’s root...

UNFC Championship Series “Double Point” Finale at Spokane County Raceway This Weekend!

(Photos by Dyan Lover) – This year, the Inaugural Good Vibrations Motorsports United Nitro Funny Car Championship Series has been dominated by one nitro funny car. With four of five races...

The Hits Keep On Coming: More Bonneville Photos For Your Viewing Pleasure

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – Thursday is a very unique day at SCTA Speed Week and that is because it is the final day to qualify for a record. If you go fast enough to make impound you will...

Classic YouTube: Using A Dodge Intrepid As A Rally Car!

You can blame this one on my recent fixation of converting a Dodge Intrepid into a rear-drive, V8-powered hide-in-plain-sight kind of machine. I’ve shown you before just what that can look...

Video: Running Over The Christmas Tree In Brainerd

It’s time again for the Lucas Oil Northern Nationals. For all the drag races I have been to, reported from, and announced at, I had never actually seen someone crash into the Christmas Tree in...

Bet 88 MPH Isn’t A Problem: This Holden Kingswood Is Good For A Megawatt Of Power!

Power ratings for engines can be strange. Most of the time the unit is horsepower: 550 ft/lbs per second. Sometimes you’ll see a different system, like PS or other terms, which are metric...

SCTA Bonneville Speed Week 2018: More Photos From The Salt As The Week Heads To A Crazy Conclusion

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – As the week wears on during SCTA Bonneville Speed Week 2018, some really interesting stories are developing. Yesterday the Flashpoint streamliner made its best run...

Money No Object: The “Chemical City Coupe” 1932 Ford 5-Window With Buick Nailhead Power Would Look Great In Your Driveway!

I’d love to sit down one day and figure out where Chad, Lohnes and I sit on typical cars. Not big trucks, not rusted Chevrolets, and not weird-ass Mopars…builds that really matter. Builds...

Want To Buy An Icon? The MOB Fuel Altered Is For Sale – Great History, Nitro Burning Madness

It is not often that an awesome and historic legacy name in drag racing comes up for sale. In this case it is not just the name but the latest iteration of the car that made it so famous. The MOB was...