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Pro Street Video: The ULTIMATE Pro Street Muscle Car Compilation – Big Tires & Blowers!

Pro Street is not dead, and never really has been. Sure it’s not nearly as popular as it was in the 1980s, and 1990s, but based on all the attention that these Pro Street machines are getting...

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GUMBY THE HOT ROD GET’S MORE LOVE! Check Out The Build Progress On Freiburger’s 1929 Model A Ford Coupe!

Model A Fords are cool. Period. They are just one of those iconic machines that the hot rodding and racing world has always loved, and we totally get why. This one that Freiburger has is a cool...

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John Jackson Found The HOTTEST Custom Car and Truck Show In Oklahoma! This is Slamboree ’26!

I was planning to attend Slamboree 2026 at Osage Casino this past weekend, but a variety of things kept me from being able to make the trip. But you can imagine how excited I was when I found out...

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Even More Problems for Big Cordless Tool Brands from Walmart! These Walmart Brands Kick Ass! Watch Milwaukee Cower!

A couple of weeks ago we shared a Torque Test Channel video that was putting Walmart’s newest cordless tool brand, Greenworks Pro, to the test where it passed with flying colors. So much so...

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KALITTA, TODD & ANDERSON RACE TO WINS AT MUCKLESHOOT CASINO RESORT NHRA NORTHWEST NATIONALS

– Kalitta rolls to second straight TF win – Todd gets first FC win of 2026 – Anderson goes back in PS points lead SEATTLE (July 26, 2026) – Funny Car’s J.R. Todd won for the...

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BROWN, WILKERSON & G. STANFIELD GET MISSION #2FAST2TASTY CHALLENGE WINS AT MUCKLESHOOT CASINO RESORT NHRA NORTHWEST NATIONALS

Josh Hart, J.R. Todd and Dallas Glenn power to No. 1 spots at Pacific Raceways SEATTLE (July 25, 2026) – Four-time Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown earned his first Mission #2Fast2Tasty...

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Dodge Announces Durango SRT – 475hp SUV That We’ve Been Expecting For A While

This is not exactly shocking news that Dodge has announced the creation of the Durango SRT. McTag and others have been following this one for a while now and the end result is a 475hp SUV that will...

BangShift (Off) Road Test: The 2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tony Sestito) – Athletes come in all shapes and sizes. From the string bean marathon runners to the brutes that power lift twice their body weight, there’s a...

And He Stuck The Landing: This High-Flying Chevrolet Lumina Just Might Be The Coolest One Out There!

When the description of the YouTube video of a car being jumped includes the phrase “KID LIVES!!”, you watch the video. It’s not because you want to see whether or not the uploader...

Fast Friends: Krista Baldwin To Race NHRA Winternationals In A/Fuel With Support From Baldwin Filters and McLeod

Our pal Krista Baldwin will be appearing at the NHRA Winternationals this coming weekend in an A/Fuel dragster for the second year in a row, which is awesome. Baldwin is the daughter of the late...

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...