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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from 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 Sportsman Drag...

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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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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...

Update: Jason Tabscott’s Truck Found! Now, We Need To Locate His Stolen 1975 Camaro!

It has been almost four months since Jason Tabscott’s GMC Sierra, car trailer, and the white 1975 Chevrolet Camaro that ran hard in Street Race Small-Block N/A on Drag Week this year were...

Hot Rod Garage Meets The Crusher Camaro! The 1970s Street Machine Look Is Ditched In The Name Of Handling!

Hot Rod’s Crusher Camaro is the other bright yellow Chevy magazine project car that seems to evolve every few years, causing a stir with fans and readers alike. Not that Freiburger, the...

Rough Start: A Big-Block Cordoba That Looks Daily-Driver Ready – And It’s Under Budget!

One of the biggest problems with scraping the bottom of the budget barrel of Craigslist, as our Rough Start series does, is that every single vehicle we have shown tends to need something…it...

PRI 2015: Moroso Brings The Heat To Valve Covers – Billet Pieces, Fabricated Style, Ford, GM, Chrysler

CNC machining has been one of the most amazing drivers of hot rodding technology, parts, and components, of the last couple decades. If a human mind can dream it up and draw it, incredible multi-axis...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2015: Cool Cars and Engines We Saw On Day 1

We’re here in Indianapolis at the Performance Racing Industry Show 2015. Think of this event as SEMA’s hardcore brother. PRI is cool because it is about racing and really gnarly high...

Killing The Peace And Quiet At The Bend In The River With A Crosley Fitted With A Pulse Jet Rocket!

I want you to put yourself in the position of a police officer who was required to report to a boat launch on a river to investigate a noise disturbance call. By the time you get there, there is no...

These RZRs Are Taking On A New Hill In Alabama For The Chance At $500…But When The Hill Is Called “Geronimo”, Is It Worth It?

Stoney Lonesome ORV Park in Alabama recently opened up a new hill climb location, dubbed “Geronimo”, and offered up a cash prize of $500 to the first UTV that could make it to the top....

Gates Salvage Yard Tour: Corvair Rampside Trucks, Rotted Wagons, Heavy Trucks, And More

So we continue on with our frosty walk through Gates Salvage in Hardwick, Vermont. This place was pretty freaking awesome to spend half a day traipsing through. Because Fitzgerald could not walk five...

No, It’s Not A Flashback – Another Dodge Disco Van Has Hit The Auction Block!

You know that saying, “What’s old is new again”? I’m afraid to admit it, but I believe that the era of the custom van is upon us once again. Yes…vans, complete with...