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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Vice Grip Garage ALMOST Won A Helicopter At The Freedom 500!.. And Then He Accidentally Destroyed His Friends Turbo Pacer

The Freedom 500 is one awesome race, but that’s not just because the action is fun to watch. This race is something special because the people racing in it are some of your favorite YouTubers...

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Texas Street CASH DAYS Action From 1320Video: Huge Wheelies, Close Calls, & MORE! Plus Win A Corvette!

Texas street racing royalty, and some new characters alike, were on hand for the Cash Days street racing that was going down during the dark hours after TX2K at the Texas Motorplex. It was the first...

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Our 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos Continue: Door Cars And Drag Cars Tearing It Up At GALOT.

We’ve got our third photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as well. (Photos by...

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DNE Motorsports Is Ready For Bonneville! See What They Are Bringing To The Salt

We’re heading to Bonneville Speed Week in two days, and we’re excited to see all our friends, fellow racers, and fans, and to step on the salt for the first time in the past couple years....

Best Minivan Burnout Ever!?!? Our Friends From Rawr Racing Do It Right!

When we met Travis, and the rest of the yahoos associated with Rawr Racing, during Rocky Mountain Race Week we knew immediately that they were a little bit…hmmm how do we say...

This 1956 Austin Healey is Hemi Powered And Fat Fendered

Austin Healeys are cool little cute cars. Cute being the operative word. Sure they have tons of racing pedigree and all that. We aren’t discounting any of that. But they certainly aren’t...

When You Have a Bunch of Half-Cars Lying Around: A Bizarre Buick Regal/Plymouth Scamp Hybrid

To paraphrase Jurassic Park chaotician Ian Malcolm: “Your bodywork guy was so preoccupied with whether or not he could that he didn’t stop to think if he should.” And just like the dinosaurs...

Russian Off-Road Racers Repurpose Old 3.5-Ton Trucks to Race Offroad and, Yes, It’s Awesome

Short-track offroad racing has been popular in Europe for many years and while there all kinds of classes in the United Kingdom (like rallycross) and the United States (like off-road truck racing),...

Morning Symphony: Blown Third-Gen Hemi Goodness – The Supercharged Chrysler SRT-8 Is Back!

After waxing poetic on the idea of late-model rides having blowers through the hood, I had to go back and check up on one of my all-time favorites, “Mad Matt” Leischer’s 2006...

Watch This Alky-Injected Crosley Snort and Rip On a Dyno

Crosley engines don’t get much love in the world of modern racing, but the miniscule engine not only powered Crosley’s cars in the 1950s, it was also a favorite among SCCA racers in the...

260ci and 1,000hp – Automotive Specialties Has Built A Very Nasty E-Motor For Bonneville

Keith and Jeff Dorton from Automotive Specialties are known across the country and across the globe as two of the most serious, innovative, and all around bad assed engine guys alive in the world...

A Twelve Second Ford Fiesta ST? Bring On The Party…And Plenty Of Hurt Feelings!

There’s nothing wrong with the Ford Fiesta ST. It can run up to 197 horsepower if you get into “overboost” mode, is small and nimble, and at 2,700 pounds, is a lightweight among new...

In the 1980s, Chuck Yeager Wanted You to Fasten Your Safety Belt and Drive a GM

You likely know Chuck Yeager from his aviation exploits, which are probably at or beyond those of just about any other human being. Not only was Yeager the first man to break the sound barrier in...

This 1969 Mercury Marquis Is An Awesome Boat To Cruise The Vegas Strip In!

It’s a fantastic fantasy: land somewhere with money in hand, buy a car immediately and just drive it for the rest of the summer to wherever the hell you feel like going. I don’t know if...

MAHLE Aftermarket Celebrates The Success Of Pullers Using Their Pistons

For many of you, when you think about MAHLE Aftermarket and the products that they make, Cobra Jets, drift cars, muscle cars, and all kinds of racing/muscle stuff pops into your head. Well you need...

Aussie Budget Builds: Mighty Car Mods Pits Their Mitsubishi Lancer Against Their Re-Purchased Nissan 180SX

We can dig budget builds around here. Sometimes, you just have to play with the hand you are dealt and make the most out of what you’ve got. For Mighty Car Mods, that’s what this battle...

Half Mile Drags! Action Coverage From The Revvolution Shift-S3ctor Indianapolis Airstrip Attack

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Racing on an airstrip used to be a necessity for early hotrodders. With nowhere else to go, racers turned to old airstrips and lakebeds to wind their...