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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Junkyard Crawl With Steve Magnante: Steve Found A 1 of 2,553 Barracuda Formula S Convertible At Backyard Auto In New Hampshire!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car project or two. Today is a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S Convertible, of which only 2,553...

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Trailer Tech: Here Are Some Simple, But Effective, Trailer Upgrades That Save You Time, Money, and Aggravation When Hauling A Load

I’m a big fan of trailers, and I own a few different sizes. With that said, I am one of those people that is always contemplating another size to add to the fleet because they are just so...

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Auto Revolution’s Influence and Impact Podcast: 1990s Truck Scene, Retro Sport Trucks, Lowered Tahoes, Rare Billet Parts And More!

Ah the 1990’s, a time that changed the world of hot rodding, custom trucks, muscle cars, and so much more. There are too many big things that happened in the 1980s and 1990s that were impactful...

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SICK WEEK Part 1: THE ROTSUN AND BLASPHEMI RUN FASTER THAN EVER! Finnegan’s Garage Sick Week Adventures!

The Finnegan’s Garage crew had two cars at Sick Week 2026 in Florida and both of them ran quicker and faster than ever before, so that’s a win! The fact that Finnegan was also giving away...

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REPLAY the FREE Bathurst Livestream AND Watch In Car And Highlights Right Here From The Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour Endurance Race In Australia!

It’s time for the Bathurst 12 hour, LIVE! If you dig endurance road racing, at one of the most famous race tracks in road racing history to boot, then you are going to want to watch all the...

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Founding Member Of Southern California 5-B Club Passes Away

According to reports, our drag racing community has lost one of its hardest working and beloved members… Bill Bailey. For many years, Southern California racers and fans found Bill at tracks...

Three Minutes Of Hell: Last Chance Qualifying Run For The 2016 King Of The Hammers

This is brutal! Fighting55 Racing’s Jimmy Haughy and Brian McCarthy show us just how crazy the King of the Hammers can be. They worked their asses off but didn’t qualify for King of the...

A 14-71 Blower On A Jeep Cherokee? Yep, Sounds Pretty Perfect To Us Too. Check It Out!

You never know what you are going to find on Craigslist, which is probably why so many people spend so much time shopping for cars and parts there. You never know what you are going to find! This...

Cool Parts: We Found This Old Ford Inline Six Hilborn Injector For Sale – We Never Knew They Made One!

The nooks and crannies of the high performance speed parts industry present some pretty interesting finds on a regular basis. There’s always something that we see and think, “Why did they...

This Is The Greatest Vintage Road Racing Video Ever: Camaro VS The World In 1971 Race

I love announcing drag races. I love everything about that activity but I do harbor a deep secret that this video brought to the surface. See, the first ever racing events I announced were SCCA road...

Watch The Weirdest Final Round Drag Race We’ve Ever Seen – It Turns Into A Footrace!

We were tired just watching this hilarious race from the Perth Motorplex 400 Thunder event in Australia. What you are going to see is the final round of pro stock motorcycle go totally and weirdly...

Rough Start: Can A Buick Grand National Come In Under The Budget? If You Are Willing To Work On It, It Can!

The Buick Grand National has come into it’s own as an iconic car. The turbocharged V6 was decent for the time stock, but if you knew your way around a turbocharged engine, you were a god on the...

eBay Find: This Wide-Body, Minilite Equipped Bugeye Sprite Is Awesome And Needs More Power

It isn’t all muscle cars and lumbering trucks that fill my list of automotive wants. In fact, there are some little cars on the list as well. I’d love to have an MG GT, Sunbeam Tiger,...

Officially Undead! Heartland Park Topeka Announces Weekly Racing Program

Yes, we know that the sprawling Heartland Park Topeka facility was technically saved when it came under new ownership a couple of months ago but the reality is that with the announcement of weekly...

Well, That’s Different: This LS-swapped Chrysler Crossfire Was Built Purely To Street Race

If you ever wondered if there was a Mopar that I couldn’t possibly love, it’s the Chrysler Crossfire. Why? It’s mostly just a Mercedes SLK reskinned to be more American. Sure, the...

Watch This Crazy Diesel Powered Nova Wreck Hard At The Top End Of Woodburn Drag Strip

Rob Coddens has long been known as one of the best guys in the country at making big power with the GM Duramax diesel engine. He had a series of ever quicker pickup trucks before he graduated to a...

Carnage Footage: Touring Car Masters Crashes – Australia’s Grand Master Class Of Touring Cars Still Play As Hard As Ever!

We are glad to see race cars actually racing instead of collecting dust and sitting on the lawn at shows. They were built to run, so run ’em. The Touring Car Masters series in Australia is one...

Mud Bog Time Machine: Let’s Take A Trip Back To The Gumbo Of Hennessey, Oklahoma 1983/84

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the second in a new, throwback (wow…) series I put together from my photo archive.  First stop is a mud bog near Hennessey, OK situated on the...

ChallengerFest 7: Two Days Of Racing, One Show, Four Race Classes, And Now A Forged 426ci Gen 3 Hemi Prize Motor!

We might be going a touch overboard with the preliminary coverage of ChallengerFest 7, but when you have a show that brings cars in from all over the country to one location….Bowling Green,...