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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 5 Rally Racing Action! The Carnage Continues As The Desert Fights Back Harder!

Stage 5 action, highlights, and more are below! Bodies and vehicles are being put to the test and the carnage and emotions are real! This tough and technical stage was toughernastier than many...

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Orlando Speed World Dragway BANS ALL ELECTRIC VEHICLES From Competing At The Track, Effective Immediately. What Do You Think?

Citing a long list of concerns, many of them the common ones on most folks minds, Orland Speed World Dragway has officially closed their doors to Electric Vehicles. The ban does not apply to hybrids,...

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How to Chop An All-Original 1932 Ford Tudor: Chopping a True Survivor – This Untouched 1932 Ford Is Becoming A Hot Rod!

Here’s a video showing just what you’ve got to do in order to chop the top on a 1932 Ford Tudor. This is where the cutting begins. There’s no turning back now! The last video showed you...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 4 Rally Racing Action, And A Night In The Desert With No Support, Is Taking It’s Toll!

Stage 4 action, highlights, and more are below! Bodies and vehicles are being put to the test and the carnage and emotions are real! This overnight stage was tougher than many expected. Dakar Rally...

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Unreal Adventure 2025: Unreal Adventure Hits The Pacific Northwest! Episode 7 – Part 1 Razor Sharp LAVA ROCK vs 4x4s: Oregon’s Rim Butte Trail

Unreal Adventure is back and we’ve got Part 6 below! Don’t worry, if you missed the previous videos we’ve got links to those as well.  In the last episode, drivers and crews learned what...

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This Guy Is Asking Strangers to Paint THEIR Car… What Would You Say If Approached By This Guy?

It’s one thing to have a driveway cleaner or mowing guy come to the door and ask if they can mow or pressure wash for free. I mean they do the work right there at your place. But what if...

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Question Of The Day: What Car Is Currently The “Do Whatever” Hot Rod, And Which One Is Next?

It’s a predictable pattern: Car is too new to modify. Car is still kind of new, but a couple of tasteful bits won’t hurt. Car is ok to modify. Hell with it, nobody wants these damn things...

From The Land Of Oz: Check Out This 8-Second Ford Ute Run The Quarter At Sydney Dragway

As the Earth tilts and we start to get cooler in the Northern Hemisphere, in the land of Oz things are finally starting to warm up. I think…from what we can tell, the fun never does seem to end...

Rough Start: This 1978 Pinto Cruising Wagon Is Almost Perfect! But You’d Better Like Orange…

Say you want something fun and funky to rock on your “part-time at Taco Bell” budget. Basic society would suggest taking what you can get, shutting up, and moving on. Manufacturers would...

Gravelrama 2015: Uphill Drags! A Race Where The Surface AND Gravity Are Working Against You

(Words and photos Doug Gregory) – The plan for this year’s Gravelrama was to cover as much of the uphill drags, flat drags, and the Big Eliminator as we could.  As we were to find out there...

Classic Iron At The 2015 NSRA Nationals – The Stuff That Falls Between Muscle Cars And Hot Rods

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The hey-day of the big three designs were without a doubt in the 50s and 60s.  It was a time when you could barely glance at a car and distinctly tell...

Shakedown At The Summit 2015: Here’s Our Final Load Of Killer Photos From The Race

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Well we have finally worked our way to the bottom the massive pile of photos that Mike Brooks shot while he was at the Shakedown at the Summit 2015. This race has...

Watch NASCAR Truck Series Racer Austin Theriault Suffer A Massive Wreck At Las Vegas – This Happened Last Night

Austin Theriault is one of the talented young drivers in the NASCAR truck series these days and the dude has a pretty interesting story. He grew up and honed his driving skills in northern Maine, a...

Land Speed Action Photos: More High Speed Images From The Ohio Mile September Meet

(Photos by David Whealon/DWPhotos.net) – Land speed racers are a very interesting lot. For the most part they do not get to ply their trade nearly as much as people who race stock cars or go...

Ebay Find: A Checker Marathon For Your Inner Hot Rodder And Taxi Driver

I never have understood anybody’s obsession with the Checker Marathon. Ok, the absolutely freaking huge Aerobus eight-door wagons are kind of cool, but the regular four-door Marathon taxi cars...

OUCH – This Audi Vs. Bentley Accident At The Blancpain Sprint Series Misano Race Is Cringeworthy!

That misty shot of dirt, debris, and scattering body panels is the result of the coming together of an Audi R8 and a Bentley during the Blancpain Sprint Series race at Misano. Coming out of a corner,...

This Hellcat Challenger Whips Up On The Unsuspecting At A VMAX200 Event In Europe!

Ranting, raving, and fawning over the Hellcats should be over…they are out and about, and hunting. Quarter mile times are known, top speeds are known. Done and done. What’s left?...

Tough Truck Racing! Check Out The High-Flying, Axle-Breaking Fun At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park!

If it’s destined for the junkyard but runs, you might as well have some fun with the vehicle before it dies, right? That’s the theory behind some of the best low-buck racing you can find:...

Land Speed Coverage: Action Photos From The 2015 ECTA September Meet – Final Runs Of 2015

(Photos by David Whealon) – The final event of the 2015 ECTA season was a barn burner for sure. The place was jammed packed with more motorcycles and hot rods than anyone could remember, the...

Shakedown At The Summit 2015 Photo Bomb: More On Track Action From The Wild Norwalk Weekend

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – The negative Nancys of the world that think they know the sport of drag racing and don’t will be the first to tell you that there are no young people involved...