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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Cruise Coverage: The 34th Annual Great Labor Day Cruise At The Orange County Fairgrounds In California

For more than three decades, hot rodders from all over southern California have been gathering at the Orange Couny Fairgrounds to hang out and participate in the Great Labor Day Cruise. This event...

Cruise Coverage: We Hit Two Cool Cruise-In Events In The Same Day – Lots Of Great Cars And Trucks!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  Most of the time if two events are scheduled on the same day I will typically choose the one closer to home.  Very seldom is it possible to make two the...

Is AWD Best? Does RWD Have It’s Faults? Can FWD Be Fun? Let Randy Pobst Show You Handle All Three Drive Types On The Track!

My first autocross was in 2010 at Bremerton Raceway in Washington State. Back then, I owned a 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, the one with the V8 up front, and I felt cocky as all hell…I could...

Pro Street Cool or Pro Street Weird? This 1978 Olds 442 Has Real Olds Power!

This one sure falls under the Dare to be Different banner, right? When’s the last time you saw a 1978 Olds 442 let alone one that’s been built into a ground pounding pro street car with a...

Cleetus McFarland Gets A Shot At A LS-Swapped Nissan 350Z At Beech Bend! Check Out The Shenanigans Here!

The Street Car Takeover at Beech Bend earlier this year was a wild event to cover…roll racing, drag racing, car shows, a burnout contest, all while I was near heat exhaustion. In short, it was...

Morning Symphony: Get Your Good Earphones Out For This 3D Binaural Recording From Monza!

The title says everything you need to know: You will have to have earphones in to get the full effect of what you are about to hear, otherwise the purpose will be lost on you. YouTuber...

The Ultimate Chimera: A Wagoneer-Framed, Buick Powered Plymouth Valiant Wagon With Pinto Taillights!

It is very difficult to know where to start with what you are looking at right here, but this is as good a point as any: that lead photo is only the tip of the iceberg, folks. I was looking for an...

AutoMeter’s New Direct Fit Dash For Jeep JKs Is A Perfect Solution To Your Mounting Needs

The whole point of upgrading to nice AutoMeter gauges is to get accurate information on all the systems of your car and as a side bonus, really dress up the cockpit as well. You’ve likely seen...

Watch Doorslammer Legend Tommy Mauney Get A Facefull Of Fire At Shady Side Dragway

Tommy Mauney (pronounced Mooney) is one of the great door slammer chassis builders and racers of all time. He was there for the beginning of pro mod, developed lots of the stuff that has been refined...

Cruise Coverage: Rumbling Into the Lexington Hardee’s For A Night Of Summer Hot Rod Fun

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We’d heard there was a regular cruise-in at a Hardee’s location in Lexington for a while and a few folks said it had a decent turnout with some...

Stirrings At FCA: AWD Challenger And A Special Edition Hellcat (There Is Such A Thing?)

In an earthquake, usually there is a strong tremor or two felt before all hell breaks loose. Consider this bit of news coming out of FCA that tremor: two new Challenger models are coming. One is long...

Day of The Drags 2016: One Of The Coolest Drag Racing Events In The Country Rolls On

(Photos by Robert Paxton) – There are few events in the country with the cool factor that the Kontinentals Day of the Drags event has. This race is a gathering of cool, weird, old timey, and...

How Do You Make The Jump From A Late 1950s Mercury To An Acura NSX? Petrolicious Showcases A Unique Collection Of Cars!

Normally, Petrolicious picks a car for one of their features…something stunningly gorgeous, with a story that needs to be told, some of the best cinematic shooting out there, and that’s...

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BangShift Project Files: Meet The Man Who Can’t Stop Frame-Swapping!

An automobile project doesn’t get much more involved than a frame swap, does it? Undoing that marriage of chassis and body that was made at the factory takes commitment, a near encyclopedic...