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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Unknown Parts Counter Guy: When The Good Idea Fairy Goes After The Computer System

One of my swiftest complaints to come flying out of my mouth involving the store, any store, is the computerized catalog. It’s the bane to older generations, the parts Bible to the incoming...

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Is This The Hot Rodders Hoverboard? This Is One We Think We Could Get Behind…errr… ON!

We’ve got friends that are all into their hoverboards. In fact, our friend Richard Holdener has been known to ride his all over Westech Performance Group in the wee hours while working on the...

Grudge Match: Hell Boy Vs New New Half Track Wheelstand And $2000 On The Line!

The World of Grudge Racing is changing and growing and getting crazier by the day it seems. More and more really fast, I’m talking REALLY fast, cars are coming onto the scene, and yet the...

Ice, Ice, Baby: Here Is A Preview Of The Fun On Ice Many Of You Will Be Experiencing Soon

Since it’s getting colder and colder, and even SoCal is getting near freezing temperatures at night the last few days, I thought it was time to post a preview video of things to come once the...

eBay Find: A 1968 GMC Pickup That Checks Every Last Box…Except For The Wheels, You Pick Your Favorites!

You can’t exactly blame Freiburger for coining the term “Muscle Truck”. The concept has been around for years, mainly because when you combined the larger engines trucks were...

Quad-Turbo, 6.0L Powered Rubber-Nosed Camaro Junkyard Build…Recycling Done Right!

Yes, folks, it’s another late-second-gen Camaro sporting an LSx swap. I’d say “don’t groan yet”, but I’m sure I was beaten to the punch. Apparently the trend is to...

The WTF? Files: Check Out This Beast – Part Dodge Magnum, Part Ford Ranger!

The Dodge Magnum station wagon did come with available all-wheel-drive from the factory, essentially Mercedes-Benz’s 4MATIC system. It was popular in places where snow is an actual concern, or...

More Donut Derelicts Photos From SoCal’s Premier Cruise In

It might be cold and snowy in a lot of the country, but it’s still cruising weather for most of us here in SoCal and that means Donut Derelicts baby! We shared some of our photos from this...

How The Hell Does A 1982 Corvette End Up In Iceland?

Watch this video from the gang at Petrolicious and you’ll find out! It makes sense we guess, after all it is a Vette which means way less to rust out since it’s all fiberglass. And based...

This 1973 Cadillac DeVille Caribou Is Way Too Perfect For A Ute, Even If It Is A Unicorn

“I felt like destroying something beautiful.” That line is from the movie Fight Club, and that is currently the conundrum I find myself in as I stare at the pictures of this 1973 Cadillac...

Creative Turkey Cooking With Vaughn Gittin Jr. And Ford

I have to say, this is one way I never considered cooking a turkey, but knowing Vaughn Gittin Jr. like I do it doesn’t surprise me even a little bit. He and Ford got together with a new Mustang...

Reach For The Sky: Wild Wheelstands From Redemption 6.0 – No Prep Guys Hooking Better Than They Should Have!

It was cold as all hell during the first day of Redemption 6.0. That’s not hearsay or known by looking at an app – I was standing in the bucket of a construction lift with dew freezing to...

Muscle Or Buzz Bikes: Current Fun For Future Hot Rodders

When Bill Tichenor sent this to us, we smiled the entire time we read it. It reminded us of our first barn finds, which were bicycles and motorcycles, and had us remembering what it was like getting...

We Hit Donut Derelicts In Huntington Beach And Have Photos To Share Right Here

Donut Derelicts is one of Southern California’s most famous weekly cruise spots and it happens early in the morning in an average looking shopping center in Huntington Beach. Most weekends the...