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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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Charlie Westcott Jr. To Make NHRA Pro Stock Debut In His Mustang At E-Town This Weekend

There’s a lot of interesting stuff happening at Englishtown this weekend for the NHRA Summernationals. For starters, Ricky Gadson will be riding in NHRA pro stock bike for the first time in a...

Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Cutting Loose At Monza – Tire Smoke And Turbos Are A Wonderful Thing!

Decry burnouts and stunts that turn tires to vapor as wasteful all you want to…some days, it’s the only sort of thing that will scratch the itch every gearhead I know gets every once in a...

How To Sell A Car 101: Take A McLaren 650S On The Hakone Turnpike In Japan!

Marketing isn’t easy, but sometimes everything just falls into place and it looks easy. Think about it: If you can get a hot model to take a big bite out of one of your cheeseburgers, chances...

AFCO Performance Group Acquires Robbie Stanley Racing – Premier Quarter Midget Builder Joins Group

It is a fair statement to make that racers are not born, they are made. Sure there have been a few select individuals with seemingly innate ability but for the most part great racers started young...

These Kids Drive Like Rock Stars! Check Out The Air They Get In These Mini Monster Trucks!

We really need to start keeping up with the times. When we were kids, we were over the moon if one of our friends had a go-kart or a dirt bike, but apparently the game has been dramatically stepped...

This Four Door, 455 powered, ’41 Buick Is A Cruiser We’d Love To Haul The Family In!

I really love the cars of the early 1940s. The big round fenders are about the best thing going in my book. The shapes are cool and the fact that cars like this 1941 Buick were among the last to...

The Real Angry Grandpa? This 1974 Dodge Dart Is A Straight-Axle Freak Show!

I swear, I did not go looking for this car. There’s no way I could have predicted finding something like this. Here’s how this all went down: earlier today, I found a 1975 Road Runner for...

The Top 11: Biggest Influences in Hot Rodding History

This week’s entry is a bit more philosophical than our past Top 11 lists. We thought about the things that really made the car hobby what it is today, and put quite a bit of effort into ranking...

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Sydney Allard

Sydney Allard is best known as the father of a British car company that made its name by taking a well engineered British chassis and stuffing it full of whatever American V8 they could shove in it....

Underrated G-body: It’s No Grand National, But This 1985 Buick Regal Is An Excellent Project Starting Point!

It’s funny how picky people can be when it comes to cars. You can almost hear the conversation now: “Dude, I think it’s a Grand National! No, wait, it’s white…is it a...

Too Close To Call, Let’s Go To The Film: Which One Pulls Out The Win, The LUV Or The Mustang?

There was more to see than a Hemi-powered Impala showing combine drivers how to mow down some wheat at Eat Sleep Street’s “Controlled Chaos” invitational Cash Days race in Kansas....

Jeeps And Burnouts At The Donut Garage With Currie Enterprises. What More Do You Need?

Currie Enterprises has been one of the strongest names to go to when it comes to off-road axles. I know this because in every issue of 4-Wheel and Off-Road that I read as a kid, everything under the...

2 For 1: Twice The Rear Tire, Twice The Doors, Same Price! Dually Deals.

This Dually Deal right here is pretty sweet. It’s a 1988 Crew Cab Dually, from Chevrolet, which means TBI injection. Big Block, Th400, 14 Bolt, all the heavy duty stuff. And everything works....

Twin-Turbos, The Curb Weight Of A Feather, And Room To Run: This SuperLite SLC Kit Car Stomps!

I’ll be straight-up honest: the reason that I wanted to show off this SuperLite SLC running at the WannaGoFast event in Georgia has nothing to do with what the car is. That’s a pretty...