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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Is A Solar Generator Right For You? Should You Have Bought A Solar Generator Years Ago?

Have you seen these Solar Generators lately and wondered if they were worth having? They are a battery pack, available in multiple sizes, with an inverter built into them so that you can run both 12v...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational Las Vegas: More Photos! Here’s How The Race Results And Season Points Shook Out

Here’s our second gallery of photos from the Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Vegas! (Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA ran their Ultimate Street Car Invitational...

Sexxy Red: The ’63 Chevy Impala That Ate SEMA 2024. Love It, Hate It, Or Both. The Most Talked About Car Of The 2024 SEMA Show?

Sexxy Red. It’s amazing how one 1963 Impala lowrider could make such a splash, especially when you consider that it was parked outside next to a huge selection of brodozers and a handful of...

Camaro, Chevelle, And El Camino Enthusiasts Rejoice! Classic Muscle Parts Has Holiday Deals And Free Shipping Specials!

I love the holiday season, because no matter what week it is there are specials and sales going on that entice me to stock up for the build season. Our friends at Classic Muscle Parts are growing...

Maple Grove’s Dutch Classic Was Off The Hook, And We’ve Got The Drag Racing Photos To Prove It! Wheels Up Action From The Last National Open Of The Season.

Check out the sixth gallery of Dutch Classic drag racing photos right here and if you missed the first one you can use the link below to see them as well. And as always, if you click on a photo it...

Truck Feature: Project Lockjaw – Big Tire Garage’s M715 Custom Rock Crawler

At the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the number of Bro Dozer style trucks in attendance was insane. This show truck trend has been around for the past few years, and because I’m a you do you...

TURBO LS PORTED HEAD TEST. HOW MUCH ARE PORTED HEADS WORTH ON AN LS3, 408 STROKER OR TURBO 4.8L?

Richard’s latest series is all about what a particular bolt on can be worth on your LS engine build. It started off with a video on oversize throttle bodies, then went to intake manifolds, and...

This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 7: The Vintage Dragster Gets A Mid-Plate And Comes Off The Chassis Table!

It’s about to get exciting!!! In this video update on the Vintage Dragster project, it gets a mid-plate and then comes off the chassis table to sit on the ground for the first time! Plus the...

Vintage USA vs New China: Which Sledgehammer Will Survive A Giant Hydraulic Press!

Everyone is always going on about how Chinese products are junk when compared to American, and especially when compared to good “old” American products. The phrase, “They...

Freiburger’s Job Is Over! Here’s How He Got Started, Some Advice For Newbies, And A Reminder That He’s Not Dead Yet

I feel like all the doom and gloom that has come around over the last week or so, following the news that Motortrend was no longer going to produce the shows we all know and love, makes it sound like...

The CarCapsule Folks Have Come Out With The PaintProStation Professional-Grade Mobile Inflatable Paint Station!

Over the past couple of years we’ve seen all kinds of inflatable paint booths come to market, but most of the ones that I have seen have been aimed at the DIY crowd and don’t look all...

When You Take 16 Chainsaws, Build A V16 Out Of Them, And Swap Them Into A Lada, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

If you don’t follow the Garage 54 crew on YouTube, then you are missing out on a level of crazy you just can’t understand. These guys are in Russia and certainly know how to have fun...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational Las Vegas: Who Wins And Why? Here’s How The Race Results And Season Points Shook Out

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA ran their Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI) at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas for the 17th time and Bob Sobey’s 2013 Nissan GT-R emerged...

Reviving a Legend: Jay Leno’s Garage Is Restoring the Iconic Chrysler Turbine Car

The early 1960’s was a really interesting time in American automotive history, because the entire world was infatuated with the idea of space travel, rockets, etc. That spilled over into the...