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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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Amazing End Over End Trophy Truck Crash In Baja: This Is Not Going To Buff Out!

Whether in a truck, a buggy, or on a bike, going through a whoops section and casing the nose into the next whoop is never good. At best it brings you to a sudden stop that has all of your insides...

Breaking News: Fire Rips Through Famoso Raceway – Takes Out Tower And More – UPDATED!

UPDATE: 12:00 PM Pacific Time 1/7/2016   12:00 PM Pacific Time 1/6/15 Photos courtesy of Auto Club Famoso Raceway Just before 3:30 AM, the Kern County Fire Department responded to a structure...

Not A Bad Day At Work: Pitting The Corvette ZO6 Against The Dodge Viper ACR

The Dodge Viper has always made a strange competitor against the Corvette. On paper, it seemed to make sense: two American high-performance rear-drive two seaters that had aspirations of taking on...

Round Two, FIGHT! Fisker Sues Aston Martin For $100 Million Dollars, Claiming Civil Extortion

After the fun that Henrik Fisker had with Aston Martin in court over the Thunderbolt concept, you would think that both parties, but especially Fisker, would want to keep far, far away from each...

Behind The Scenes Gallery: Inside The Pits With The Trucks At Red Bull Frozen Rush 2016!

What does it take to make me willingly go to Maine in winter? It isn’t skiing, it isn’t the scenery, and it certainly isn’t the “lobstah”…I’m allergic. No,...

Would You Rather: Which Overly-Enthusiastic 1980s Lukewarm Hatch Would You Take Home?

The mid-1980s was the time when auto manufacturers cautiously, carefully and nervously picked up the book of performance and started flipping through the dusty pages to see if there was a way that...

And The Angels Sing: Listen To This Stock Mustang GT350 Book It From 0-170 MPH!

Ever since Ford dropped the bomb that is the Mustang Shelby GT350 last year, everybody’s main course is not so much the power…that was a given…but the absolutely spectacular noise...

Automotive Art: Ace Photographer Larry Chen’s Year In Review Is Stunning!

Lohnes and I are up in Maine, living the life and freezing our arses off at the Red Bull Frozen Rush event, and we aren’t alone up here either. Racers, representatives, a bunch of tire dealers,...

Question Of The Day: Will The Crapboxes Of Yesterday Become The Collectables Of Today?

GM J-cars, Ford Escorts, K-cars…hell, even the AMC/Renault Medallion. All cars from the early 1980s that have a reputation for being cracker boxes, none of which really have a following past...

(Video) This Rotted, Ratty 1971 Monte Carlo Has A Freaky Secret Under The Hood – Want It?

Ever seen a car that draws you in with its sheer coolness and then shocks you with its craziness? Welcome to the world of this 1971 Monte Carlo. You may be thinking that I’ve been inspired by...

BOMBSHELL! NMCA Creates The Class Everyone Wants – NMCA Factory Super Car Heads Up Racing!

We thought we knew, we heard things, and now the rumors have proved themselves! NMCA has announced the creation of the Factory Super Car Class that will pit COPO Camaros, Challenger Drag Packs, and...

NOS 1970 LT1 Cylinder Heads That Have Never Been Out Of The Box Until Now!

Every once in a while you see a part online or at the swap meet and think, “How in the hell did that stay in the box for this many years?”. Well, this is one of those times. While looking...

The RideTech Report: Street Grip Systems Are Shipping, Hidden Prizes, Cool Cars, And A 48-Hour Corvette Update

Fun fact to know and share. The high performance aftermarket industry takes but one tiny breather per year. That beautiful space between Christmas and New Year’s day is the time when most...

Is It A New Model Or What? Chrysler Is Teasing An Upcoming “880”, But We Don’t Know What It Could Be…Do You Have Any Ideas?

FCA, and in particular Chrysler, is in a weird state right now. They have the 300 series, but won’t sell the SRT model here. They have the 200 series sedan, but that’s pretty vanilla for...