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More of Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Right Here: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Mod, Wheelstands, And More!

(Photos by David Whealon) – NHRA Drag Racing at the Gatornationals was off the hook yet again in 2026! The week started with new drivers, crew chiefs, and teams, plus record breaking performances...

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Scott Sullivan on Pro Street Style, Street-Driven Customs, and a Lifetime of Hot Rod Building

Scott Sullivan is one of the most iconic car builders of the 1980s and 1990s. After building what many considered to be the first Pro Street car, his 1967 Nova, and several other iconic machines...

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How Did Swapping a 500HP SRT4 Turbo Engine Into The Cleanest Classic Dodge Caravan Ever Become A Total Disaster?

In the last installment of the SRT4 powered Caravan build, I said that I wasn’t sure there has ever been a Dodge Caravan that was cleaner and cooler than this one right here, and the engine...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Division 7 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series From In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip – Saturday

We’ve got more live drag racing coming to you from NHRA’s Division 7! 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...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Division 2 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series From Gainesville Raceway – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from NHRA’s Division 2! 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...

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Exhaust Insulation Tech: Installing Embossed Stainless Exhaust Heat Shielding On A Turbocharged Drag And Drive Beast!

I’ve been doing drag and drive events for 21 years now, and have been very vocal over the years about what it takes to be successful when it comes to completing these events and having a good...

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This Old Cab Over Dodge Wrecker Is A Hot Mess, But We’re In Love All The Same

This is one of those times when I’ve fallen so immediately in love with something that I am virtually blinded to the sheer horror of the situation until I take a second look and realize how...

Crazy Video: Watch This de Havilland Canada Dash 7 Perform Short Take Off and Landing Drills – 20-ton Plane Defies Physics

(By Eric Rood) – YouTube is flush with videos of supremely talented Alaskan bush pilots dropping their two-seat Piper Cubs and Super Cubs onto tiny patches of level ground, “rolling” to a...

The RideTech Report: Ridler Domination Continues, New Events Announced, Customer Cars, Cool Shops, MORE!

Well the guys and girls at RideTech have really outdone themselves this time. The latest RideTech report is an amazing look at what the company has going on all fronts and it is crazy. Obviously they...

Detroit Autorama 2016 Coverage: Everything From Sick Seconds 2.0 To The Model Contest Here!

(Photos by Mike Brooks/Gasoline Images) – So as we continue to wade through the massive number of photos that our own Mike Brooks good at the Detroit Autorama 2016, we have come across a fun...

Watch Tera Graves Go 3.78 At North Star Dragway In John Hale’s ‘One Bad Texan’ Funny Car

Tera Graves is a woman on a nitro propelled mission. She has piloted all kinds of crazy fast stuff through her driving career but for the second (third?) time she has climbed behind the wheel of...

Freiburger And Dulcich Rip Apart A Mercury Cougar’s 351 In The Pilot Episode For “Roadkill Garage”!

Can you rip out an engine after work on Friday, rebuild it in over the course of the weekend, and dump it back into the car so that you can drive the car to work on Monday morning? That’s the...

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One Last Blast Of Photos From The 2016 RPM First Blood Winter Test At PBIR

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – As you read this, Chad will be at Bakersfield for the 2016 March Meet and I’m down in Bradenton, Florida at the 2016 NMRA Spring Break Shootout. The last time...

This Mud-Running Ford Bronco Is A Beast! Wheels Up In The Mud From A Dead Launch!

Traction in the mud…yeah, this big Bronco has it in spades. It’s also got enough power to hang the front end in the air from a dead launch in the mud! This is the John Deere Bronco and...

Wheelies, Launches, and Action From Famoso Raceway During Saturday At The 2016 March Meet

If you didn’t attend or watch the 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet yesterday you made a grave mistake because this was easily one of the best days of drag racing we have ever seen. Sure, there...

March Meet 2016 Saturday Photos From The Swap Meet And Famoso Grove

Despite dire weather predictions, the people, the cars, and the racers all showed up to do battle on Saturday at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield. Yeah, there was a rain delay in the middle of the day...

Dragsters and Altereds In Action at Famoso Raceway – March Meet Hot Rods At Work

It was dragsters that built the March Meet. From its earliest days in the late 1950s to the point where funny cars were so popular that they could to longer be ignored, front engine dragsters were...

Video: Forty Two Years Ago The Most Spectacular Fire In The History Of Dirt Track Racing Took Place In Kansas At The Hutchinson Nationals

Thanks to BangShifter Don McGinnis we have this incredible video to show you today about a catastrophe that happened 40 years ago and has largely been lost to the unrelenting march of time. This is...

World of Outlaws Coverage: More Great Action Photos From Royal Purple Raceway

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – A day or two ago we showed you Charles Wickam’s first batch of killer photos from the World of Outlaws event which was held on the dirt track at Royal Purple...

Big 3 Swap Meet 2016 Coverage: Killer Kustoms, and Lots More Bang Shift Approved Iron

The Big 3 swap meet goes far beyond what that simple name implies. Because it has been going on for a half a century, it has developed a culture all its own and there are lots of people who show up...