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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 7 Regional From The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 7! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Drag Racing Photos: Our Final Gallery Of Photos From The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway!

Here’s the 4th, and final, gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check them out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: From Chassis to Rolling! 4 Link, Axles, Crossmembers & More!

Shannon and Jess are moving right along on the FJ40 and things just keep getting better. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might not...

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Semi-Final and Final Round Racing From The Postponed PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway!

Our friend NC Promoder was on hand for testing at the PDRA East Coast Nationals yesterday and caught all the semi final and final round racing action from the postponed Carolina Nationals...

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Drag Racing Photos: More Photos From The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway. Great Cars And Action!

Here’s the 3rd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check them out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: Check Out The PDRA Testing and Carolina Nationals Eliminations from Darana Motorsports Park in Benson NC

We’ve got some live track testing going on at Darana Motorsports Park 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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She’s Stacked! This 1973 ‘Cuda With Stack Injection Is A 12-Second Street Bruiser and Wally Winner

It’s tough to do something original these days, especially with the cars of muscle era, right? How many different ways can you stick these things together so that you stick out of the crowd....

Fun Footage: Watch This Vintage Caterpillar Crush An Old Car and Nearly Throw The Operator In This 1936 Movie Clip

We love old videos and when we stumbled upon this gem from the 1936 movie Earthworm Tractors we couldn’t help but to share it with you. In the clip we see a vintage Caterpillar tractor...

Found The Fuse! This Pontiac Tempest Throws A Temper Tantrum And Breaks Heavily!

In racing, you need to have a “fuse”. That is the part of the power pathway between the engine and the tires that is going to give up first when the insane amount of forces being exerted...

This 1990 Motor Week Review of The Then New GM “Dust Buster” Vans Is A Funny Look Back Into The Past

There are certain things you remember from being a kid. I remember being 10 and seeing these bizarre vans roll into and onto the lot of Damon Pontiac, the local dealer of that brand and just being...

Rough Start: Searching Kenosha For A Clean AMC Netted This 1972 Hornet SST!

As much as I try to stay out of Rust Belt areas doing the Rough Start searches, I couldn’t help this one. Kenosha, Wisconsin is the former home of American Motors, the central location for just...

Project Raven Imperial: It’s Time To Feed The Raven!

The sun was shining, the weather was clear, and I was on a mission: the 1983 Imperial was going to get it’s 367ci small-block Chrysler engine shoved into the bay come hell or high water. Yeah,...

Callaway Corvette #2 Is For Sale – The First One Is In The National Corvette Museum (This One, Too!)

Color us shocked. We were cruising around RacingJunk.com and decided to pop into the Corvette section. Our intentions were semi-nefarious. We were going to find some dogpiled hunk of sad fiberglass...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Best “That’s Not Appropriate” Car You’ve Seen On The Track?

I started autocrossing out at Bremerton Raceway in 2010. I had worked a race back in 1998 as a cone-shagger, a volunteer detail for the NJROTC unit I was attached to in high school, and what it...

Oh, This Blows (oil all over the place): Ever Wanted Your Car To Get An Oil Bath? Here’s The Quick Way

(By Greg Rourke) – So today out in front of my place of employment a Mack ready mix truck came to a smoking, slimey stop. That’s motor oil all over everything,  it was coming out of the...

Perfect Pass: Watch This Brazilian Team Lay Down A Stick Shifted 4.60 Eighth Mile Rip

We always talk about drag racing as being its own kind of international language, right? Well this video is further proof of the accuracy of that opinion . Why? You are about to see a Brazilian drag...

Miss Misery Strikes Again – The Radical Four Wheel Drive Drag Truck Wrecks Hard and Early

(Video by Blown64Vette – YouTube)- There is no more determined man in drag racing than Bobby Dodrill and there is no more aptly named vehicle in the sport than his four wheel drive rig called...

Matt Hartford Will Be Running NHRA Pro Stock This Weekend At The Mile High Nats – Watch His Wild Ride From 2013 In Denver

Matt Hartford will be racing NHRA pro stock this weekend at the NHRA Dodge Mile High Nationals outside of Denver, Colorado. Back in 2013 Matt had a bad ride in his Total Seal Piston Rings car during...

Columbus Goodguys 2018 Photo Coverage: From Ratty Gassers To Modern Hot Rodding Art, The Show Had It All

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – When people hit a major show like the Columbus Goodguys event, they have expectations. They want to be entertained, they want stuff to do, and they want variety. We all...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Given $300,000 And 24 Hours To Buy Only Car Stuff, How Would You Do It?

So we know how the McLaren guy performed this challenge but how about BangShifters? In today’s question we’re giving you a dream or potentially nightmarish scenario. You are given...