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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Ludacris’s Legend, Unabashed Tesla Fanboi-ism, And More!

Indian summer is upon us here…the temperature is right on that fine line between cool and “get a coat”, the trees are starting to get colorful, and at least twice a day flights of...

Aussie Doorslammer Racing! Check Out These 9-Second Rides Ripping Down Sydney Dragway

When it comes to drag racing, we love doorslammers. Old, new, doesn’t matter…if it is fast, powerful, loud and looks more “street car” than anything else, we’re on...

Ebay Find: Finding The Car Of Your Childhood Dreams – A Drivable Cozy Coupe!

Red body, yellow top, white mesh wheels with red caps, barely fits two. For a lot of kids growing up, the Little Tykes Cozy Coupe was their first real set of wheels. And we mean lots: in production...

This 1969 Shelby GT500 Has Been In The Family Ever Since It Was Bought As An $800 Runaround In 1973!

As I creeped along towards the gates of Beech Bend Raceway Park for my first day at the NMRA All-Ford World Finals, I was already feeling out how things were going to turn out, and it could be summed...

Lancaster Dragway Sunday Nostalgia Coverage: Cool Old Iron Revisits The Strip

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Earlier this summer, Lancaster Dragway hosted the Sunday Nostalgia event which brought out lots of killer vintage drag racing iron as well as lots of killer vintage...

Cool Video: Ride Shotgun With Off Road Racer Shannon Campbell – 360-degree Camera!

There was a time when an in-car camera looked like something from the Apollo space program. Huge, bulky units that racers almost had to be forced at gunpoint to have in their vehicles. Now it is the...

eBay Find: This 1917 Curtiss OX-5 V8 Engine Is An Amazing Historical Relic

The name Glen Curtiss is slowly slipping into the darkness of history as things often do but as hardcore gear heads we’re going to do everything we can to keep it fresh. Curtiss is one of the...

This Evil Little Mazda RX3 Can Move! Watch This Seven-Second Screamer Rip The Track (and eardrums) Apart!

There’s something about a lemon…it’s small, it’s sour, it grabs your visual attention with it’s bright yellow skin and once you get into it, every part of your body is...

F1 Changes Exhaust Rules To Make Cars Louder – Not Better, Louder For 2016

It is kind of amazing that in the billion dollar world of F1 it still comes down to the simple visceral experience that fans are getting to keep the sport popular. Among the loudest (see what we did...

2015 Olcott Beach Car Show Coverage: Our Final Load Of Photos

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – They came in droves and droves. They raised money for the Ronald McDonald House and they had a hell of a time doing it. Those are the major takeaways from the...

Can’t Wait For The New Jeep Pickup? Well…If The New Fiat Toro Is Any Indication About What’s Coming, You Might Be Disappointed.

When word got out that Jeep was going to crank out a pickup, many celebrated. Ever since the J-series truck ceased production in 1988 and the Comanche disappeared in 1992, fans of the company have...

Some Assembly Required: Would You Be Interested In A Bricklin With C4 Corvette Underpinnings?

You have to hand it to Malcom Bricklin for trying, at least. He introduced the United States market to Subaru and Yugo, and was the predecessor to pretty much the same act that John Z. DeLorean would...

Pulling Action Photos: Diesel Trucks Hooked Up And Rolling Coal

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The last class to take the hook for the weekend were the diesel pickups.  These things have really progressed since the last time I seen them in person. ...

Top 11: Battle Of The Heavyweights – We Pick Our Favorite Full-Sizers!

After seeing that absolutely bitchin’ 1969 Impala SS that Mike Musto got to drive for Big Muscle, our gears started to turn. We haven’t seen big cars…really big cars…as muscle...