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Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: The Biggest and Baddest Truck Show In The Country!

Here’s our last gallery from LST 2026! Man  what a great show this is. I hope all of you at home put it on your list for 2027! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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Nitro Funny Car Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing Goodness!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Highlight Video: Sportsman Drag Racing Action from the 2026 AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Here we go! NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing is some of the finest on the planet. Sportsman Drag Racing is the lifeblood of drag racing, drag strips, and the hobby in general, so when NHRA announced that...

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OG Mini Truck Customizing: Jendro’s Chop Shop Putting Maxima Headlights in this Clean Nissan 720!!

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a ton of custom truck mods involving head lights and tail lights. A couple of the more well known were using Nissan Maxima lights in Nissan 720 pickups and Ford...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Body Chop, Rock Sliders & Cage Plates As Fabrication Continues

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one...

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IHRA News: Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series

Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series; Partnership Kicks Off at St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix Fairfield, OH — March 11, 2026 — The International Hot Rod...

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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News! This Week: Crash Testing Advancements, Angry Germans, And More!

Just when your stomach had finally recovered from the damaging effects of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the total cost of Junior’s ten packages under the tree…and all of the batteries...

eBay Find: A Ready-To-Go 2001 Chevrolet Silverado, Complete With Tubs And A Supercharged 5.3!

You want to go fast right now, but don’t have the time and/or inclination to put together your own ride? Hey, we understand that some people are busy and want immediate satisfaction, and today...

The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags Photos Start Right Here!

The most disappointing thing about being at the PRI Show in Indy was the fact that Darr and I had to miss the Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags at Irwindale. This is one of the premier events of the...

FAST Puts The Spark In Fuel Air Spark Technologies With An Entire Line Of Hot New Ignition Systems

We knew it was only a matter of time before FAST: Fuel Air Spark Technologies decided to bring out their own line of Capacitive Discharge ignition systems for hot rods, street machines, muscle cars,...

Ford Fans Rejoice: Introducing The Moser M88! Moser Is Making New 8.8 Ford Axle Housings!

Anyone who has owned a Fox Body, SN95, truck, etc knows that the 8.8 rear axles in late model Fords are stout pieces from the factory and can be really strong with the right parts. Stock they come...

Sounds Like A Good Plan: One Set Of Off-Road Tires, One Clapped-Out BMW, And Some Desert Off-Roading..

Unless your name is Bill Caswell, the concept of taking a E30-era BMW off-road should be left to those drunken nights in college that end up with a tow truck bill and a Craigslist hunt for a...

Playing In The Mud On DOT-Legal Rubber At Twitty’s Mud Bog – Yes, That’s A Mustang…

Sometimes the only real way to have fun is to just get full-on down and dirty and have a screaming good time doing it…and if your mind went anywhere else than to a mud bog, then that is...

Burnout Footage: Tire Annihilation At Tread Cemetery – Attacking The Skidpad With Extreme Prejudice!

Hey, Australia: is the fun in full swing yet? We are guessing that it is, considering how many videos hit our inbox every day! While we’re buckling down for winter and preparing our plans for...

Professor Pobst Is Back With Another Racing Lesson: The Science Behind The Racing Line

Have you ever played a game like Gran Turismo or Forza with a kid whose entire comprehension of track etiquette is knowing how to bounce off of you so that you end up in the tire wall and he ends up...

Gates Salvage Yard Tour: These Rusting Hulks Of Americana Sure Capture The Imagination

As you read this, I’m actually going to be traveling with my family for a few days. I mention this because we’ll be on the road with a million other blob shaped personality-fee cars...

Battle Of The Titans: 3100 Horsepower Square Off As A Supra Races A Twin-Turbo Chevrolet!

Imports versus domestics at the same strip…sounds like a recipe for a ton of trash talking and grudge racing. We might be a bit evil for thinking this way, but we’d be the guys over in...

SCTA El Mirage Action Photos: More Land Speed Action On The Dry Lake Bed

(Photos by Zane McNary) – To say that Zane sent us a pretty decent load of photos from the final 2015 meet of the SCTA at El Mirage would be the understatement of the millennium. There have...

Mini-Jeep Off Road Racing In The Netherlands Looks Like A Blast! (Video)

Like us, when you see this video you’re wheels will start turning and you’ll be trying to figure out how to build one of these bad ass little mini-Jeeps that are tearing around a dirt...

This Incredible Video Of A Funny Car Hitting The Tree Reminds Us How Tough These Are To Drive

We have not idea how we missed this video for more than a year and it seems that most everyone else has missed it, too. In this clip you’ll see driver Ron Deedy commence a burnout in a Firebird...