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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $50,000 Sunday

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Two On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More!

Here’s our 2nd gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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The 908’s Flat-8 Engine Might Make a Porsche Believer Out of You

Classic Porsches: They’re like a weird cult that you either join or you don’t. I tend toward the “don’t” side of things more often than not, but some of the company’s early purpose-built...

Gallery: More Street Rods, Hot Rods, and Memories From A Car Show Filled Summer

(By Doug Gregory) –  Didn’t see a lot of cars this year riding high.  There were some straight-axle types with a nose-high attitude, but not as many as I’ve seen in previous years.  Lots...

Badass Aviator Bob Hoover Has Passed Away at 94

Bob Hoover might not be a household name in the way that Charles Lindbergh or Chuck Yeager has become in the world of aviation, but many will tell you that Hoover was the greatest who ever lived. And...

Project Angry Grandpa: The BFNY Performance Two-Day Thrash

The deed is done. After 124,400 miles of faithful service in mostly stock form, Angry Grandpa, our in-house 2006 Chrysler 300C project car, has finally moved on to a higher level. I wasn’t...

SEMA 2016: Will The Steel Bodied 1967 Buick Street Funny Car From SEMA 2015 Be Topped?

(Editor’s note: As the 2016 SEMA show is approaching with the speed of an asteroid coming for the Earth, we’re going to look back at 2015 over the next couple of days to show you our...

Race Everything! The Street Eliminator UK Has Some Quality Oddballs

The biggest place to go drag racing in the United Kingdom is the old air base-turned drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway. With a fairly bustling racing scene, that makes for a fairly packed schedule...

2016 Gran Turismo Awards Registration Is Open! Will Your Car Be Immortalized In The Iconic Game?

Registration for the 2016 Gran Turismo Awards is open right now and if you are showing, building, or helping finish a car for SEMA 2016 then you need to throw your hat into the ring and perhaps see...

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...