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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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Wheelie Video! This Is A Collection Of Cool Wheelstands From The 2016 Season In Australia

While their toilets may swirl in the wrong direction, they may thoroughly enjoy Vegemite, and they steer their cars on the wrong side, Australians are as awesome and hardcore as American hot rodders....

Rough Start: A 1968 Pontiac Catalina Hardtop Is A Great Choice For A New Sled!

I wasn’t looking for anything in particular while searching for this Rough Start find. In fact, the field of finalists that I had located was nice and diverse: a $400 Chevrolet LUV truck that...

This 1960 Cadillac DeVille Convertible Is As Classy As It Is Cool

Both Chad and I love us some classic Cadillac action. The massive cars have a presence about them and for our money, the styling from the 1940s right into the era of the land barges of the 1970s was...

Ford Has Gone SUV Nuts: New Expedition Has Been Shown, And It’s Only The Tip Of The Iceberg!

(Photos: Ford Motor Company) Apparently the theme of the Chicago Auto Show is “new sport-utility vehicle”, because that’s all the news we’ve been seeing so far. Lohnes touched...

Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: Step Two Is Making A Sacrifice To The Pony Car Gods

We are a couple of weeks into work on the Great Pumpkin, our 1980 Mustang Ghia, and it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, to be honest. We’ve had good days where we make progress and...

Awesome Historic Drag Footage: Home Videos From The 1972 NHRA Winternationals – Wild Willie, All The Great Heroes Of Yesteryear!

Wow, is this awesome stuff! I happened to stumble upon this 15-minute home video made at the 1972 NHRA Winternationals by a pair of Australian brothers who traveled over to take in the race. Their...

Progress For A Drag Strip On Long Island, New York? Seems Like It

It has been years since Long Island Dragway in Hampton, New York closed its doors and with it, left drag racing fans with no other option but to head to places like Atco and Englishtown. Since then...

This 1960 Bonneville Convertible Has A 389, Tri-Power, And A Four Speed That Looks Wrong But Is Totally Right

When we get our time machine perfected, we’re planning on making a trip back to 1960 and if there was any question about what car we’d want to be driving, it has now been answered. This...

Australian Nationals Footage From Calder Park: V8s, Rotaries, And…Wait, Is That A Previa?!

Now that the Super Bowl is over for us here in the Northern Hemisphere, can we finally get to drag racing? Please? For most, the answer is still “no”…unless you live in a place...

Winternationals Video: This Footage From The 1970 AHRA Winternationals Is Simply Great

For many years, there was more than one Winternationals race to kick off a drag racing season. While the NHRA’s event at Pomona was always the better known of the two, the running of the AHRA...

How Does A Brit Enjoy A NASCAR Racer From Behind The Wheel? Check This Out!

Some automotive spectacles don’t exactly translate too well. Auto racing is formed by geographical features and culture. Take NASCAR, for example: geographically, we have plenty of open area...

Leno Gets A Real Historical Piece In The Garage – One Of The Three Lola Mk6’s!

Racing royalty isn’t a phrase that needs to be thrown around. There are important elements to racing, sure, and they are worthy of their own moment in the sun, but “royalty” should...

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Perfection At Park Lane – This 1966 Mercury Droptop Blends Big Topless Cruiser With Just Enough Muscle!

So Lohnes has been gawking big drop-top cruisers lately. Can’t say I blame him any…I think we all are looking forward to Spring with a vengeance, but in his case I’m also willing to...

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That’s A Wrap: Our Final Round Of Photos From The 2017 Grand National Roadster Show

You never thought it was going to end, did you? The seemingly relentless charge of photos from the 2017 Grand National Roadster day after day. We just about shot ’em all at the Pomona Fairplex...