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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: The Race of Kings Is Today! The Biggest And Baddest Machines Of King Of The Hammers Are Racing LIVE Today Right Here!

This is it, the biggest and baddest of the bad attacking the rocks, sand, and dirt at Johnson Valley’s King of the Hammers! This is what all the week leads up to and is what many say is the...

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Sick Week Day 3 Video: The Fast Cars Got a Surprise on Day 3 of Sick Week – Rain Delays And 40 MPH Winds!

After a long drive that really put everyone’s street manners to the test, Day 3 at Bradenton Motorsports Park was a wet and windy one. I know that lots of folks were excited about Sick Week...

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Sick Week 2026 Video Coverage: Drag, Drive, Repeat’s FULL Day 2 Video Coverage Is Right Here! All The Action!

The Drag, Drive, Repeat crew are in the house and ready to rock and roll through the rest of Sick Week 2026. And while we already shared their Day 2 points special, this video here is one that shows...

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Sick Week Drive Day Video: 370 Street Miles Prove Too Much For Some Racers And Brings More Bad News

370 miles is a real drive, and apparenlty more than a few of these racers could handle during Sick Week 2026. The drive from South Georgia all the way to Bradenton is a real drive and sometimes...

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Tool Tech: Have You Ever Seen A Screwdriver This Good? Testing And Reviewing Precision And Electric Screwdrivers

Let’s face it, there are plenty of times that the tools we are using on our hot rods and race cars are about as rudamentary as can be. Hammers, pry bars, even screw drivers sometimes. But then...

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Day 9: Shannon and Jess Campbell’s King of the Hammers 2026 Daily Adventures: Watch Shannon Qualify For King of the Hammers 2026 With In Car Video And More Right Here!

We shared some of Shannon Campbell’s history at King of the Hammers the other day, and you can use the link below to check that out, but here are Shannon’s Daily Updates from the Lakebed...

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Unhinged: The Fastest Dealership Vehicle Purchase We’ve Ever Seen (That Didn’t Require A Suitcase Full Of Cash)

My in-laws have been hem-hawing around the issue of a new vehicle for a few years now. It’s not like they don’t need one…between the two of them, there is a 1997 Tahoe that...

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Truck and Tractor Pulling Action Gallery: Elburn, Illinois Knows How To Throw Down! Killer Iron In Here

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Tractor pulls. The concept is simple, you hook your tractor or truck to a heavy sled, a weight slides forward making it more difficult to pull the farther...

2015 Syracuse Nationals: More Cars and This Time We Have Autocross Action Galore!

(Photos by Brooks/Ferrer) – So we’re back with more sweet Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer photos from the 2015 Syracuse Nationals in New York. Some of these photos depict cars that are wet....

2015 Rolex Monterey Historics – More Action Photos From The Vintage Race To End All Vintage Races

If you are wondering why we’re still running photos from the 2015 Rolex Monterey Historics it is mainly because the event is so flipping awesome we have loads of photos left to run! Look, among...

2015 Tri-Five Nationals Coverage: More Square Chevrolet Goodness From Bowling Green

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Before my mondo computer melt down a week or two ago we were showing you all kinds of great Bryan McTaggart photos from the 2015 Tri-Five Nationals which were...

Fuel Altered Video: This Short Film About The Metal Mafia Iron Big Block Chevy AA/FA Is AWESOME!

Sean Belt, a longtime fuel altered racer put together a team that has become known as The Metal Mafia. A short documentary on the team and their trip to one of the coolest tracks in the country,...

Classic YouTube: It’s Big, It’s Brown, And It Hauls! It’s A 700-horse Caprice Wagon!

If you want to see one car that Brian, Chad and I would all agree on, this slightly ragged-looking 1980s Chevy Caprice wagon would be a great choice. For Chad, it’s a Chevy wagon. For Brian,...

Ebay Find: A 158-mile Old 1982 Oldsmoble Omega – The Car Has Pretty Much Sat For 33 Years And The Plastics STILL Fell Apart!

I’ve said it before on these pages and I’ll say it again: the front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile Omega just might be the most pointless vehicle ever produced. Born as one of the RWD X-car four...

Don’t Want A Sand Drag Bike But Want The Wind In Your Helmet? How About ATV Sand Drags?

It’s only logical: someone had an ATV and loved to race it. They saw sand drags and thought, “Hey, you know what would be cool?” and the next thing anybody knew, a sociopathic...

Cool Video: Watch The Trailer To THREE MILE A New Brian Darwas Film That Follows The Rolling Bones To Bonneville

Filmmaker Brian Darwas has really built a nice resume for himself with movies that are really based around the hot rodding culture. They are not real films that gearheads can appreciate for the cars,...

It’s Official: UK Buyers Want The 5.0 Mustang! Here’s How The Sales Broke Down…

The amount of speculation on how the United Kingdom would take to fully legal, imported Ford Mustangs was immediate grounds for speculation. Some said that they simply wouldn’t move like Ford...

The Bugatti EB110 SS: The Forgotten Supercar That Has Somehow Aged Very Well

When the Bugatti EB110 first appeared in 1991, I couldn’t stomach it’s looks. I was eight years old, too, and I did not know about things like it’s four-wheel-drive system,...

2015 Syracuse Nationals: More Photos From The Show That Pulls Thousands Of Cars From Around America

(Photos by Brooks/Ferrer) – Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re back with more images from the 2015 Syracuse Nationals. Jose and Mike were face first into this show for...

2015 Monterey Historics : More Photo Coverage – This Time It Is Multi-Generational Classics On The Track

We’re back with more photos coverage from the 2015 Rolex Monterey Historics at Laguna Seca. We have been doling out the photos to you with different themes and ideas but today we’re...