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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: It’s The Second To The Last Stage Of Dakar 2026! Stage 12 Racing Action Is Below!

Here comes Stage 12! There is just one more stage after this, but that doesn’t mean Dakar 2026 is done. It may be getting closer and closer to the end of the 2026 Dakar Rally, but there is...

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Iron Trap Garage Sheet Metal Tech: Fixing Poorly Fitting Hood Sides For The Custom 1938 Ford Convertible With Some Nips And Tucks

The Iron Trap crew are getting back at it, working on the 1938 Ford Convertible. This custom car has seen some action over the years and needs some sheet metal love in a variety of places. The hood...

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She KNEW the ’55 Had It In It ! Sick Week Testing, While Sick, At Centerville Dragway in Arkansas Proves Aero Isn’t Everything

Alex Taylor is back at it, prepping and testing for Sick Week 2026 which is coming up in just a couple of weeks. They aren’t alone, as lots of racers are in full thrash mode getting cars ready...

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FREE LIVE 24 Hour Endurance Racing: All The Racing Action From The Michelin 24 Hour At DUBAI 2026 Right Here!

The 2026 racing season didn’t wait to get started, as we have had racing going since the clock went past midnight to end 2025. We’ve had Dakar Rally 2026 going on, New Year’s drag...

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2026 Pro Stock Practice Tree Winternationals Livestream: hosted by 2025 NHRA Factory X Champion Lenny Lottig Raising Money For Childrens Aid Hospital

Here is a cool event folks! This is taking Practice Tree racing to a whole new level. This is the Pro Stock Practice Tree Winter Nationals, an event that not only measures reaction time, but also...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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SEMA 2016: One Of The Cars We Can’t Wait To See On The Floor, “The Underdog” Ford Maverick: EcoBoost Power, Built By High Schoolers!

One car that unanimously dropped jaws at SEMA last year was “FuguZ”, Sung Kang’s 1973 Datsun 240Z. It was damn hard to not find something to like about the car that wasn’t...

The Trailer For 24 Hour War Has Us Dying To See This Killer Looking Documentary

It is one of the greatest American racing triumphs ever. It was a battle of huge budgets, huge egos, and huge personalities. It was a fight between Italy and the USA, it was a fight between...

This V8 Utes Pile-up Bent Lots of Sheet Metal and Blocked the Entire Track

We showed you a spectacular Stadium Super Trucks crash from Surfers Paradise last weekend, but the V8 Utes Series was not content to be upstaged by Robby Gordon’s big trucks. In the weekend’s...

Your Vintage Party Bus Project Awaits on CraigsList: A 1962 Checker Aerobus

California’s Inland Empire CraigsList is always chock full of desert-preserved classics. The Inland Empire is basically the eastern edge of the Los Angeles metro area and if you’re from the...

Weirdest Drag Car We Have Ever Found: A 1958 NSU Sport Prinz With An N/A Buick V6?!

The NSU Prinz was manufactured between 1958 and 1968 over in Germany. 20,000  of them (give or take) were sold during that decade. We are guessing a very small percentage of those cars traveled to...

The Parade Of Classic American Muscle Continues – More Great Cars From NSRA

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here is the last of the muscle car era stuff galleries that also contain photos of otherwise-unclassified images.  Typically the photos of stuff that...

MOVE IT, GRANDPA: The Old Man And His 215-MPH Twin-Turbo Lamborghini!

At the age of 71 years old, my grandfather Ken (the namesake of the Angry Grandpa Chrysler, by the way) was driving a 1989 Chrysler New Yorker that had the Mark Cross leather, the trick overhead...

Watch One Of The Quickest AWD Drag Cars In The World Get Wild On The Strip – EKanoo GTR

Bahrain’s EKanoo Racing has a fleet of cars that range from big nitrous engined Pro Mods to the insane GT86 Toyota which has made repeated five second runs with a 2JZ engine. The guys also have...

Morning Symphony: Hanging The Tail Out On A RWD-Converted Ford Escort RS Cosworth!

All hail the mighty Cosworth 2.0L four-cylinder turbocharged wonder mill. Paired off with one of the most praised suspension setups in the automotive world and a four-wheel-drive system that just...

Cool Video: COMP Cams Celebrates 40 Years In Business – History, Technology, and Success

If you are a BangShifter you know the name COMP cams. For four decades the company has been on the leading edge of valve train technology, camshaft development, and straight up innovation in the...

Great Chase: BMW’s New Film The Escape Is A Great Watch!

Remember about 15 years ago when BMW released a series of short films highlighting a mysterious driver that did awesome stuff, like make Madonna whiz her shorts in the back seat? Well he’s back...

Watch The 2017 Camaro ZL1 Rip Around The ‘Ring A Full 12-Seconds Faster Than The Last One

When you make a car lighter, more powerful, and pack more technology into it there’s an expectation of increased performance but the boys at Chevrolet may have really out done themselves this...

Watch The Golden Gorilla Actually Become One – The Behind The Scenes Story Of The $60,000 SGMP Win

There have been some great seasons put together by racers in the drag radial world over the last decade but it will be very difficult to best the effort put forth by DeWayne Mills and his entire crew...

The Beast Of Turin Goes On A Road Trip! No Kidding, A 300 Mile Cruise!

Since its unveiling the amazing Beast of Turnin Fiat S76 has been a sensation. The car was built in 100 years ago to shatter land speed records and it did so handily. The car was twice as fast as the...