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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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Roadkill Extra! Freiburger, Finnegan and Dodge Put Eight Fans Inside Hellcats And Vipers For A Showdown!

If you are going to be sponsored by a name as big as Dodge, there really is only one way to work the deal properly so that both sides benefit from the relationship and the audience has nothing to...

Thanks VW: EPA Expands Emissions Testing To Include On-Road Driving – This Is All Your Fault

Ever have a friend that always screwed everything up? Maybe it was when you were in high school and you had found a hangout that would let you and your car loving buddies gather and bench race until...

Ebay Find: This One-Owner 1974 Datsun 620 Is A Simple, Honest Truck That Has Us Weak In The Knees

One of the bigger vehicles in my automotive background was a Datsun like this…ok, kind of like this: it was a 240Z-swapped mini truck that was a kind of reddish-purple and would do burnouts for...

Video: Steve Caldwell’s 1972 Pontiac Ventura Is All Poncho And A Wheelstanding Bad Ass

When BangShifter Doug Miller sent me an email telling me about his buddy Steve Caldwell’s 1972 Pontiac Ventura the photo was of this thing with the wheels sky high on a little tire and I knew...

Rough Start: Throwing The Buyer A Bone With This Built 4.3L Chevy-Powered Celica

Holding five grand and being forced to make do with what you have doesn’t have to suck. Sometimes, a little luck and a lot of patience can work to your advantage. There are plenty of well-worn...

Ultra Rare: This 1970 Ford Motorhome Has An Air-Cooled Deutz Diesel and Overdrive Conversion!

I love old RV’s, Motorhomes, Travel Trailers, Campers, etc. And when I see them I get excited and want them all, just like hot rods and race cars, but when I saw this thing I about flipped....

SEMA 2015: Mercury Racing Has Insane Crate Engine Offerings – DOHC LS7?!

Mercury Racing is coming into the LS crate engine market in a way no one else has even thought of to this point. The company that has made its name building high performance engines on the water and...

This Boss 429 Powered, Highly Whacked Out Jaguar XKE Is Like Nothing We Have Ever Seen

So one day back in 1967 over in Coventry, England a beautiful XKE rolled out under the sunlight, err, it rolled out of the factory. Because it is sunny for like 15 minutes a year in England it may...

It’s A Four By Four And A Church Bus…Motorweek Takes A Look Back At A 2000 Chevrolet Van Converted By Quigley!

Ah, the cargo van. With the demise of the Ford Econoline, the full-size American cargo van has finally disappeared into history, but not so long ago the Chevrolet Express, GMC Savana, and the...

Here It Is, A 500 Horsepower, 10-Second EcoBoost Mustang – You Can Hate The Exhaust Note, But You Can’t Argue Against The Performance!

Love it or hate it, Ford’s turbo-4 Mustang for the modern era can and does haul the mail when properly tuned up, and Watson Racing, in a collaboration with Revolution Automotive, can do just...

This International Metro Food Truck Would Make A Cool Gearhead Mobile Hangout

While this particular International Harvester Metro van is cool and in very good shape as it’s been recently restored, I’m using this find as an excuse to educate you on the overall...

Aussie Rebellion! New Professional Level Drag Racing Series In Australia Now Sanctioned By IHRA

So if the Australian drag racing world could be described with an American term, “screwed up” would be about it. The end of the ANDRA (Australian National Drag Racing Association) in 2014...

Ebay Find: A 1974 AMC Javelin That Has Survived The Decades As A Clean Cruiser

Too often we tend to get hung up on high performance, top speed, ultimate handling, the pinnacle of perfection. We strive for the ultimate thing on four wheels. Is that a good thing? Unless you have...

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Watch This Guy Get Beat Up By An Automatic Car Wash – The Brush Has It In For Him

For this week’s edition of “this guy’s day sucks way worse than yours” we take you to an unnamed automatic car wash and the security camera that captures a moment in time that...