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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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MAHLE Is Giving Away A Free Set Of PowerPak Pistons And You Can Win Them! Enter Here

The crew at MAHLE is pretty awesome and they prove it time and time again. Their latest hunk of coolness is a giveaway where the winner will be walking away with a set of off-the-shelf PowerPak...

Auction Alert! We Have Found The Coolest Old Car Auction That’s Going On Right Now (It Ends 10/1)

(By Greg Rourke) – Here we have an auction of a bunch of classic iron, about 130 in all. It was the collection of the late Bill Pinkley, his story would test anyone’s marriage. It seems...

2016 Rumblers Cruise To The End Of The Line Coverage – These Cars Rule

(Words and photos by Anthony Festa) –  The Rumblers have been hosting their party in Brooklyn for 20 years now, and while the days of partying under the BQE are gone, they’ve relocated...

This SpaceX Video Of How Their Proposed Interplanetary Transport System Will Work Is Amazing

With everything negative going on in the world today it is very easy to lose sight on the awesome stuff that is happening. In the greatest example of how humanity runs the gamut from mouth breathing...

Question Of The Day: How Would You Build This Dirt-Cheap Mercury Mountaineer?

Hot rodding is all about taking what is old and unloved, the throwaways of the automotive world, and turning them into something that is awesome, performs better than even the factory could have...

More Sweet Drag Week 2016 Photos From Norwalk – Summit Motorsports Park Was Jamming!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Here’s some inside baseball for you. On the night before the last day of Drag Week 2005 I sat at a table with Freiburger, Wes Allison, Rob Kinnan, and maybe...

One Of 25 With Overdrive: Take A Ride In A BMW-Powered, Original Paint 1958 AC Aceca!

Even before you read these words, you saw “1958 AC…” and immediately looked at the car to see if it looked anything like an AC Cobra, didn’t you? Well, let’s get kind of...

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Dajiban! Another Great Look at the World of Dodge Race Vans in Japan

Dodge Ram vans don’t really stand out in this country. Most have been worn down to the nub and the custom vanning scene, while enjoying a resurgence, isn’t as keen on the old Mopar haulers as...

Big Luxurious Bomber: This Twin-Turbocharged HSV Grange Is Beastly!

The HSV Grange is a wicked-up Holden Caprice. Think of it like a Chrysler SRT-8, or a BMW M5: the power is part of the equation, at least equally with the luxury, in a large car. It’s not an...

Get a Close Look at This 200 MPH Volkswagen-Powered Lakester

Most people don’t put “Volkswagen Jetta” and “200 mph” in the same pattern of thoughts, but Bonneville has a way of mashing together two unlikely things. We should say, of course, that Dan...

Big Cam Cummins And Enough Attitude For Everybody: This Hot Rodded Peterbilt Is Bitchin’!

Where do old semi tractors go when they die? If they are lucky, they get handed down through a series of owners before unceremoniously winding up at the back of a field somewhere as the old truck...

Chris Harris Loves the Viper ACR and You Should, Too

“The man from America I met said, ‘You can’t slide that car,’” Chris Harris quips before tossing the bright blue Dodge Viper ACR sideways on the Top Gear test track. I’m about 99 percent...

The One Man Railroad – A Look Back At The Tiny, Long Running Illinois Midland Line

(By Greg Rourke) – Shortline railroads are a necessary part of moving goods across our great land. Before highways the big railroads built branches and sidings to virtually any business that...

Race Of Gentlemen East 2016 – History Once Again Rumbles To Life On The Jersey Shore

(Words and photos by Anthony Festa) – On June 4th and 5th, racing came back once again to the shores of Wildwood, NJ. Brought to you by the Oilers CC and Stultz & Green, The Race of...