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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Stunning Video: Watch Physics, An Alert Trucker, And A Maintained Truck Prevent A Tragedy – This Big Rig STOPS

A poor decision by someone driving a tiny car nearly cost them and a passenger their lives in what looks to be Russia last year when this video was taken. What you are about to see is a combination...

Straight Axle Mafia Madness! More Cool Photos Of These Killer Cars at US 60 Drag Strip

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More from the Straight-Axle Mafia cast of characters at US60 Dragway.  Leading off we have Adam Lowhorns’ Falcon which is currently on the sidelines...

PDRA Action Coverage: Drag Wars At GALOT Motorsports Park – Doorslammer Greatness!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We love us some good old PDRA door slammer action around here. Benoit Pigeon, ace photographer does as well. That’s why he hit the strip at GALOT Motorsports...

IMSA VIR Action Coverage: Killer Sports Cars Tearing It Up At A Beautiful Course

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – Well we’re back to the rolling hills of the southern Virginia countryside at one of the most beautiful and award winning road racing courses in the USA,...

Mr Gasket Releases A Ton Of Fresh Products – From Head Bolts to Gaskets, Clamps, and Thread Locker!

The mad scientists at Mr. Gasket have been burning the midnight oil as of late and their work is literally coming to market. In one of the most interesting new parts releases we have seen in a while...

Gassers Down Under: What Happens When Australians Get Straight-Axle Fever!

Altered wheelbases, supercharged engines and straight axles might would put any Aussie cop into spasms, wouldn’t they? Drive a gasser on the street one time and you might as well have knocked...

Truckers, Let’s Hear It: The All-New Mack Anthem Truck Is Here, What Do You Think? (Videos)

It isn’t every day when one of the major truck manufacturer’s in the country releases a fresh rig but that’s exactly the case with the all-new Mack Anthem that the company recently...

The Good Sir Has Dementia: This Turbocharged, Manual-Trans 1978 Rolls-Royce Is A Rolling Sideshow!

Rolls-Royce automobiles are touted as the pinnacle of luxury, the pride of Britain, the top-tier of what can be done when the finest craftsmen actually get their crap together and churn out a quality...

Rough Start: This Shortbed Squarebody Chevy Is Your Dream Muscle Truck, If You Have The Cash!

The basic formula for fun really hasn’t changed much since about the late 1940s: V8, rear drive. After that, it’s details, right? Well, for an up-and-coming gearhead or someone balling on...

Is This The Nicest NAPCO Equipped 1957 Chevrolet Suburban On Earth? It’s Gotta Be, Right?

This big fella is a real stunner. I’ve never been accused of going easy on the hyperbole around here but when I raised the question as to whether this is the nicest nicest NAPCO equipped 1957...

Hoonicorn Meets Pikes Peak: Ken Block’s “Climbkhana” Unveiled To The Masses

I last worked on Pikes Peak in the summer of 2000. Yeah…for a few months, I was either the guy making donuts in the back, manning a cash register up front, or cleaning up things in the tourist...

Old School Brawl: Watch An E-Type Jag and A Cobra Battle At The Goodwood Revival

There’s road course action and then there’s an E-Type Jag and A Cobra hammering on each other corner after corner at the Goodwood Revival in England. This is one of the most fun and...

Remember The Time Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Test Drove A Swamp Buggy? We Didn’t Either!

For decades the swamp buggy races in Naples, Florida have been bringing motorsports fans and gearheads together for fun and excitement on the Mile-o-Mud. Like many of you, we were turned onto the...

Boost, Baby, Boost: Watch The Quickest Five-Speed SRT-4 Do It’s Thing In Charlotte!

The Dodge Neon SRT-4. If there is one car that doesn’t deserve half the ration of grief that it gets, I’ve got to hand it to Mopar’s solid attempt at kicking Honda fanboys right in...