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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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This Guy Turned A Chevrolet Express Into An All-In-One Bug-Out Van That Can Carry His Dog, His Bike And A Place To Sleep!

Are you familiar with “toterhomes”…the all-in-one deal that packs a roadworthy house and a toy hauler into one unit? Usually they’re based on a semi-truck with the largest...

This List Of The Top Grossing Car Racing Movies From 1980-Present Has Some Suprises In It!

Car movies are an interesting deal because sometimes the good ones aren’t really that good. More car movies have lost money than made it but we have proof that some are literal cash cows. The...

An F1 Race Car Is Fast, But Can It Take On A Funny Car? Daniel Ricciardo Gave It A Shot!

A Formula One racer is a marvel of technology. A screaming engine that can rev fast and hard enough to make a superbike jealous combined with the forefront of tire technology, suspension geometry,...

Threads Of Infamy: The Most Hilarious, Maddening, Ponderous, And Off The Wall Automotive Message Board Threads Ever

(Credit to “research assistant” Nutting on this one as well) – The following message board threads rank the highest on a scale of wackiness that we wanted to put them all in once...

Can You Believe This Is The Clutch From A Formula 1 Car? F1 Stuff Is Tiny!

When we walked by the AP Racing booth here at PRI yesterday I was mesmerized by this little tiny carbon clutch displayed on a stand. When I looked at saw that this is in fact a clutch out of an F1...

PRI 2015: A Gallery Of Cars, Engines, Parts, And Machines From The Show Floor

From the insane engines at Wagler Competition Products, to the polished parts and pieces that can be found at so many displays at this show, PRI is jamming harder than it has since we can remember....

Can You Identify This Weird Old Engine We Found St Gates Salvage? We Couldn’t!

One of the more interesting things that Fitzgerald and I stumbled on (literally) at Gates Salvage was a car that wasn’t much of a left of car at all. Basically a set of frame rails, a cowl, a...

How The Rich Do It: Skeet Shooting From A Porsche 911 Targa With Trick Shot Philip Thorrold!

You remember Tax The Rich? The unknown drivers who treated the cars of the upper crust like a rented Chevrolet Impala…drifting them through the grass, fire burnouts, and a stunt involving a...

Watch These Immense Liebherr Cranes Put On A Demonstration Of Strength By Lifting Each Other

(By Greg Rourke) – The boys over at Liebherr must be a fun loving bunch of guys. You’d think they would be just a bunch of engineering nerds, busy designing some of the biggest equipment...

Classic YouTube: Barry Johnson Literally Flying A Subaru Rally Car At The 2007 Jim Clark Rally In Scotland

I know this footage well…shortly after getting internet in my living quarters during my deployment in 2007, this footage was sent to me by a friend who wrote, “if you drove rally cars,...

Think The Snow Blower That Ate The Geo Was Cool? This Monster Makes It Look Like A Tonka Toy – Behold The Snow Wolf

Yesterday Chad showed us a cool video that had one of the more graphically awesome demonstrations of power we have seen in some time when a tractor mounted snowblower actually ate an automobile. Ok,...

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...