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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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That’s What It Is All About: Gearheads Cruise Past The Home Of A Dying Car Fan After He Couldn’t Attend A Car Show

If you knew that your time alive on Earth was winding down to days and hours, what would your last request be? For sixty year old Dennis Hake of Niles, Ohio, the answer was simple: he wanted to...

2015 Olcott Beach Car Show: Cool Cars, A Great Location, Lots Of Photos!

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of hot rods and cool cars flock to Krull park in Olcott Beach, NY and gather along the scenic shores of Lake Ontario. This...

For Sale In Sweden: The Most Customized 1972 Ford Ranchero We’ve Ever Laid Eyes On

There are some things that you do not do to someone who is just waking up. You do not douse them in cold water and start screaming. You do not lob a twenty-pound cat onto their stomach and hope for...

NSRA 2015 Coverage: We’re Back With Another Truckload Of Images!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More muscle in here and more tips on attending the Street Rod Nationals.  The nameplate ‘muscle car’ has many interpretations depending on who you are...

Edelbrock’s “Top It Off” Promotion Announced: Buy Top End Kit, Get Free Carb

Edelbrock is announcing the “Top It Off” promotion! If you purchase an Edelbrock Power Package between October 1 and December 31 you’ll get a free Performer or Thunder Series AVS...

Rough Start: The Classic Wood-Paneled Station Wagon In The Form Of A Big-Blocked Ford LTD!

Growing up a car freak invites you to other people’s opinions, whether you wanted them or not. As a kid, we had a 1969 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate station wagon wind up in our yard. Nothing...

Old Soul Rod Shop Hardcore Happening Coverage: Burnouts Galore!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We teased you yesterday with some images of cars doing burnouts at the 2015 Old Soul Rod Shop Hardcore Happening and today we’re giving you the payoff of all...

An American In Japan: A 1970 Plymouth Barracuda That Is An Exercise In “Less Is More”

One of the more interesting auto web sites out there is Speedhunters. They have insight to many different facets of the automotive world, but their specialty is Australasian car culture, with visits...

Lancaster Dragway Pro Mod-a-palooza: Pro Mods and Small Tire Cars With Bonus Images

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – From a photographer’s point of view, Lancaster Dragway in New York is not the easiest place to operate. You are limited on the areas of access because of the...

Drag Coverage: Southeastern Radial Wars Action From Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – If you rewind the clock about 20 years, the whole “outlaw” street car thing was really starting to take off. It was packing the stands, and carving...

Rumor Mill: The Dodge Viper Will Be No More After Model-Year 2017

About this time last year, we wondered just how much longer the Dodge Viper would last. Arguably, the Viper has lasted a lot longer than anyone on the hybrid AMC/Chrysler Corporation team in the late...

eBay Find: The Historic Johnson and Shipley Bonneville Belly Tank –

Few things are more iconic in the world of American racing than the belly tank lakesters built and campaigned on the dry lakes and salt flats after the close of WWII. Today there are companies...

Just Making Some Clouds: A Burnout Compilation From Performance Car Mania 2015

Of all of the motorsports bucket list items we need to check off before we check out, the Australian burnout contest has to be one of the top three. (Hey, that’s a hard list to agree on!) The...

New York City Still Has A Street Racing Problem: Neighborhood Complains

We always found the stories of New York City street racing from the 1970s and 1980s to be on the verge of complete fantasy. Guys racing literal pro stock cars down the street and all this other stuff...