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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Why Dare To Be Different Matters: This 1964 Studebaker Daytona Would Be A History Lesson To Most Show-Goers!

Most 1964 model year cars are well known, well documented, and most gearheads could rattle off the stats to you. The 1964 Ford Mustang, the year Ford stunned the world with what a simple rebody of...

Is This Actually The First Latham Axial Flow Supercharger Ever Made For Sale On eBay?

When it comes to intoxicating and amazing ads in olds 1960s muscle car and drag racing magazines two of them stand out. The first is of course Turbonique and the second is from the Latham Axial Flow...

Watch The Awesome 8Ncredible Land Speed Tractor Make A Dyno Pull – Shooting For 100mph This Weekend At Ohio Mile!

It is kind of weird to get excited about a land speed racing vehicle that is capable of running 100mph flat out, but that’s the case when we’re talking about a tractor. Jack...

The RideTech Power Tour Report – Check Out Their Experience So Far!

Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour is something that began as a humble little event and has grown into a literal monster with thousands and thousands of participants, the famed “Long Haul...

Eagle Field Runway Drags – Hot Rods, Gassers, Dragsters And Throwback Flag Starts!

(Photos by Jamie Shores-Fraijo) – There’s a growing bunch of hot rodders and drag racers that are flying well under the radar of the sanctioning bodies and throngs of spectators who attend...

Live Your Classic Le Mans Dreams In This 1969 Corvette Road Racer – Awesome Car!

While we can all fantasize about racing around Le Mans and swapping positions with some of the greatest racing drivers in history, the fact is that we ain’t gonna be there and likely neither...

Safety Car driver pulls off ridiculous drift during Le Mans rain delay

Rain interrupted the second and final day of qualifying this year, turning the four hours of Thursday running into a battle against the elements. During the night session, a deluge descended on the...

Friday’s Excuse To Go Home And Drink: Meet Olli, The Breadbox Of The Driverless Future.

Whether we like it or not, driverless technology is coming. In a few aspects, this has some positive traits: the disabled and elderly can be mobile without having to rely on degraded abilities to get...

This 1988 Hurst/Olds Came From The Collection Of Jack Watson And May Be The Most Rare Of Them All

It may seem completely insane but the 1988 Hurst/Olds may be the rarest of them all. Certainly not the most valuable of the examples that were produced for the better part of 40 years in one form or...

Semi Tractors, Dump Trucks, And School Buses: Running Every Possible Diesel-Powered Rig At Truck Mania!

Now this is a day at the drags for diesels we could really get behind. No offense meant to the 3/4 and one-ton pickup crowd, but when we see a GMC Astro 95 boiling it’s hides off like a blown...

Call the accountant: This Porsche Cup pile-up from Australia surely racked up a hefty auto body bill

Winton Motor Raceway in Australia has a reputation as one of the country’s more challenging and technical road courses with a number of “You screwed up there? Get out the checkbook.” corners....

Classic YouTube: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s WFO Drifting At Road America In 2010

Many writers like to wax poetic about drifting. They liken it to driving art: it’s completely unnecessary, but there is a certain skill to it that not everybody has, and you can’t deny...

This pint-sized streamliner coaxed 150 mph from a miniscule 50cc engine

Lou Fischer’s Bonneville Stories series on YouTube has a lot of good stuff in it, but we’re partial to the tiny terror that John Buddenbaum and Eric Noyes built to tackle the salt several years...

Potential, Unrealized: Check Out This 472 Hemi-Powered 1979 Chrysler 300!

I’m sure there are a lot of you readers that are thinking that I just relapsed back into the realm of weird Mopars…I know I’ve earned it, but trust me, this is a find worth...