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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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2017 Good Vibrations March Meet Feature: This 1957 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Was One Of The Baddest Of The Hot VWs At The Track!

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised to see a field of fast Volkswagens at the 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet. After all, California has always had a strong Volkswagen culture…Bugs,...

Unhinged: Look, But Do Not Touch!

In the upcoming Fast 8 movie, there is a scene where “the family” of gearheads is walked into a garage of dreams by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) goes full-on...

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Pain Video: This Hillclimb Event In Belgium Is Literally Impossible

I always try to help you though your Mondays. I want to show you people that may be having a worse day than you are at your office. Case in point, EVERY RIDER in this video, which was made at a dirt...

Question of the (Sun)Day: How Much Horsepower is “Enough” For You?

I have occasionally taken the side that “mild” engined Pro Street cars were OK and not lame. I basically marched into a hail of heavy fire on that one and got my ass kicked all over the...

Field Of Dreams…And Beaters: Ratty Muscle Cars’ “No Shine Sh*t List” Morning Cruise-In Gallery!

The weather called for snow or rain, depending on what mood Mother Nature showed up with. The temperature was cold enough to support either on this early March morning, yet in the parking lot of...

The Top 11: Defunct American Car Makers

After running the photos of all the old trucks the other day we got to thinking about the major American car brand names that have slid under the waves in years past. There are a stack of them,...

To Be Honest, This Trip To The Local Quick Lube Place Could Have Gone Better – Video

This video is pretty hilarious mainly because no one got hurt, the car has since been repaired, and the music bed laid down under the footage of this innocent Chevy bursting into flames after an oil...

Heavy Metal: This Hellcat-Powered International Loadstar 1700 Is Jaw-Dropping! Do Want!

Unless your name is Brian Lohnes, paying mind to a medium-duty truck doesn’t really happen unless one is parked wherever you are at, providing a service. Most people aren’t concerned...

Watch 100% Blind Alcohol Funny Car Crew Chief Jay Blake Prepare And Pull An Engine Alone

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Most know of the incredible and inspiring story of Jay Blake, the Massachusetts based crew chief and car owner of the Follow A Dream/Permatex NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car,...

Knowledge Is Power And COMP Is Teaching! Check Out Their Valve Train 101 Classes and Learn!

There are things that seasoned gearheads take for granted, stuff that you once learned by bleeding over a car, making an expensive mistake, or otherwise beating your head against the wall. In...

Awesome Chassis Dyno Video: Watch This 8-71 Blown 440 Big Block Powered Chrysler Roar!

Give us a B-body on a chassis dyno with a motor that’s hanging well out of the engine bay and we’ll love it forever. That’s the case of this chassis dyno video featuring an 8-71...

Still Suffering With Snow? This Geo Tracker On Tracks Will Be Your New Best Friend!

It’s amazing, how a decade or two can re-cast the reputation of a vehicle. Take Geo, General Motors’ rebadged import arm. The Metro might have been dinky and as opulent as a Turkish...

This Used To Be An 1972 Cutlass – It Is Now A “Sports Car”

Tim Booher sent us the link to this car, which used to be a 1972 Cutlass. It is now, according to the seller a “sports car”. We don’t know what sport. We really have no words for...

A Spectre Of The Past? This 1990 GMC Could Be A Factory Concept Study!

In the early 1990s, two trends were happening at the same time: sport trucks and performance trucks. Sport trucks need no real introduction: take a pickup truck, slam it to the ground and customize...