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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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We’ve Got NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: 4-Wide Drag Racing Is Right Here!

(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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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Friday $50,000 Big Money Race #1

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Another Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 4th gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them out too....

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Eliminations & Pro Mod And Top Fuel Qualifying From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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Rough Start: The Cleanest Plymouth Volaré We’ve Seen In A While For $2800, Complete With The Mighty Slant Six!

Ok, “mighty Slant Six” might be a bit of hyperbole, but hear me out. If you’re ballin’ on a budget, the name of the game is durability: it has to last until you are able to...

Aussie Drag Challenge! Check Out The Scene From Australia’s Take On Drag Week!

The proof that Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is an institution of it’s own is taking place in two locations : the spinoff Drag Weekend that is going on in the American Southwest, and the...

Check Out Some Of The American Iron That Is Living In Iran – Gearheads Exist Everywhere!

There are parts of our lives that transcend national borders, religious differences, and political motivations. Food, music, laughter, and love all exist outside of these realms, but what about the...

The Perfect Garage: A Porsche That Will Scare The Hell Out Of You, And A 1000+HP Minivan For Family Time!

For years, my mantra has been “fast is fast”. It doesn’t matter how you attain the speed, so long as you can back up your claims. That’s not an easy feat to do when your claim...

Stripped Threads, Cracking Steel….And This Stuff Is Holding Up A Bridge?! The SF Bay Bridge

Having lived through the “Big Dig” here in Boston and all of the associated blunders and embarrassments associated with it, I don’t have sky high expectations for any sort of public...

Rumor Mill: Did Marchionne Just Hint At A New Full-Size SUV From Ram?!

(Lead Photo: Agustin Jiminez/Four Wheeler) FCA hasn’t had a full sized SUV in the U.S. market since 1993, when the D-series-based Dodge Ramcharger was axed, and hasn’t had one, period,...

Giant Mustang Wheelstand At Byron Dragway

This Fox Body Mustang stands on the bumper like a mad man after bending and breaking the wheelie bar, and we’re junkies for Mustang wheelstands. We’re not sure why the driver lifts, cause...

Registration For The 2015 Gran Turismo Awards Is Open For SEMA Vehicles! Get In Now!

Registration for the 13th annual Gran Turismo at SEMA is now open and if you’d like to have your SEMA vehicle judged you need to get your name on the list. In order to do that, click on the...

Ever Wonder What Happened To Eddie Hill? At 78-Years Old He’s Still Racing!

Eddie Hill was once quoted as saying, “You only go around once in life but if you do it right, once should be enough.” Judging by the fact that the 78-year old Hill still seems to be...

Spirit Animal: This AMC Has A 390 Under The Hood, Lots of Street Miles Under Its Belt, And 10-Second Time Slips In Spades

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – (Editor’s note: It has been nearly exactly a year since we first ran this feature and since it has popped back up onto our radar we thought we would run it...

This 1998 Peterbilt 362 Has A 500hp Detroit, Twin Steer Axles And We’re Trying To Figure Out Why

Alright truck gurus we need your help. Normally it is not too difficult to reverse engineer a truck to figure out why it was spec’d out the way it was from the factory but in the case of this...

Syracuse Nationals 2015 Coverage: More Cars, Trucks, and History From New York

(Photos by Brian Ackley) – So I told you the sad tale of how I managed to misplace Brian Ackley’s awesome images from the 2015 Syracuse Nationals in New York earlier this summer already....

Bayou Round Up 2015: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Show In Louisiana

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Well we have come to the end of our 2015 Bayou Round Up photos that Charles Wickam blasted down in Lafayette, Louisiana at the first ever rendition of the event...

2015 Goodguys Southeastern Nationals: Our Final Blast Of Autocross and Show Photos

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – Sure that pickup truck likely did not score all that high on the autocross charts the day it attached the contest at the 22nd annual Goodguys Southeastern Nationals...