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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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Which Of These Two Iconic German Race Machines Would You Choose? Mercedes or Porsche?

It is kind of amazing what you can find on ebay. Everything from 99 cent chachkies to cars and trucks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Since we aren’t much for 99 cent chachkies, you can...

The Fastest Donks In The Country Battle It Out At Street Outlaws Event

Drag racing donks makes almost no sense. Or at least it didn’t make sense to me before. Now, I can respect it because it takes a lot of boost control or nitrous programming to make one of these...

Routeless Episode Three: It’s More Than The Destination, But The Destinations Are Fun!

If you haven’t been thrashing minutes before, and after, you are supposed to leave on a trip or for a race, you are no hot rodder or racer. That’s how it works sometimes. You work your...

Check Out The Hi-Speed Build Action Going On With The Track 1 Camaro

(Words and Photos by Ridetech) The first Goodguys Autocross of the year is fast approaching and we can’t wait to drop the hammer on both team cars — the 48 Hour Camaro and its evil twin, the...

REPLAY: Mid-West Pro Mods On BANGshift From The Texas Motorplex – Watch Here!

That’s right folks, the 2018 Season Opener for the Mid-West Pro Mods is coming to the Texas Motorplex in Ennis and their famed concrete surface promises record performances for the MWPM...

Lonestar Throwdown Was One Of The Baddest Truck Shows We’ll See All Year

If you haven’t been to a Lonestar Throwdown truck show, then you are missing out. We believe it is one of the best all year, they claim it to be the best in the world. We aren’t going to...

When A Cherry Picker Just Isn’t Enough For You, Build A Gantry Crane Like This!

After all, who can’t use the ability to lift jillions of pounds? Well the real truth is most people can’t. But, most people also don’t like a normal cherry picker or engine hoist....

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What Could Possible Entice You To Build Something This Weird?

Putting two or more cars together to build one ultra cool hot rod is nothing new. Chassis swaps, engine and trans swaps, and the mixing and matching of body parts from several models or makes it...

This One’s A Doozy! Jet Powered Pinto Wagon Anyone?

Does it make me a really sick bastard because there is a part of me that would love to own a jet powered Pinto wagon? I thought so too. But you do have to cut me some slack. I mean come on! Have you...

Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Are Next Weekend At Texas Motor Speedway!

That’s right folks, the Lone Star State’s famed Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals is coming to Texas Motor Speedway next weekend! In a state that has a lot of great car, truck, and...

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A Jillion Spikes, A 5.3 LS Swap, Nitrous, And A Yugo Body Makes This Ice Racing Greatness

The Merrill Ice Drags are hilarious because while a bunch of the cars racing look like normal drag cars with spiked tires, some are built by folks that march to the beat of a different drummer. Such...

Breaking News – 2018 Detroit AutoRama Great 8 Riddler Finalists!

(Words by John Drummond and Eric Geisert. Photos by Eric Geisert) Craving information on this year’s Pirelli Great 8 Ridler award finalists from the Detroit AutoRama? Our friends at Fuel Curve...

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Burnout Video: The Gnarly Hot Rod Freightliner I Rode In Boils The Hides – 903ci Diesel V8 Sounds Amazing

In a couple of weeks I will be headed down to Charlotte to announce at the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals and that got me thinking about one of the most fun days I have ever had, which came a couple years ago...

Watch This Ferrari 458 Racer Survive A Crash That Would Have Killed Him 15 Years Ago – Major Violence!

Sometimes, you get away with one. And sometimes, you don’t as you French driver Sacha Bottemanne learned last weekend during a French GT Tour race at Nogaro. While racing his Ferrari 458 GT3, he...