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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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OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

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Corvair War: Sitting Pretty Is One Thing, But This Crown-Converted Monza Racer Stomping Corvettes And Porsches Is Another!

I can’t knock Lohnes for picking the Yenko Stinger…it’s a given that if you aren’t going for a V8-converted ‘Vair, that the Yenko is the way to go. Looking at for sale...

This Big-Block AMC Ambassador Coupe Is The Last Of It’s Kind And Up For Grabs

This 1973 Ambassador Coupe represents one of the most forgotten last gasps of the musclecar era before it’s advancement into malaise. Sure, it’s a large by huge car, but if the shape...

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This Real Yenko Stinger Is The Finishing Blow To This Corvair Blog War – RIP McTaggart’s Hopes And Dreams

Wow, I did not think McTaggart would simply flop like a dying fish when it came to this Corvair war. I thought he was better than just panic searching for a Crown Corvair (which I featured the day...

Racing With Dad: Here’s A Spectacular Story From The NMCA Finals And Why We Love This Sport

  There’s always something cool about going racing with your family. Speaking from the father and son perspective some of the most fun weekends I have ever spent in the sport of drag...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Courtney Force & Clay Millican Into Traxxas Nitro Shootout!

Courtney Force and Clay Millican claimed the No. 8 positions in the Traxxas Nitro Shootout following special lottery drawings held in downtown Indianapolis to preview the Chevrolet Performance U.S....

More Elburn Pull Action Photos – Trucks, Tractors, Flying Dirt, and Carnage

(Photos by Greg Rourke) –  Here’s another great collection of photos by Greg Rourke that were taken at a pretty intense truck and tractor pulling Elburn, Illinois. This time of the year...

This 1979 Ford F-100 Runs 12s On A Crazily Stock Turbocharged Ford 300 Inliner! Sleeper City

There’s not much better than a smartly built combo that blows people away and has “well thought out” written all over it. We have to thank BangShifter James Pringle for tipping us...

Killer Video: Check Out This Profile Film Of The World’s Fastest Street Legal Rat Rod – 197mph ECTA Certified!

There’s cool and then there is COOL and when we first saw Aaron Brown roll into an ECTA meet with “The Uncatchable” a 1939 Ford truck rat rod we knew that this was a dude with a...

Racepak’s IQ3 Dash Is An Awesome New Addition To Their Lineup Intended For Street Cars – Check It Out

Ok, this is sweet! Racepak has introduced their new IQ3s which is a digital dash intended for street use that has all of the awesome functions of the IQ along with the added functionality to include...

Show Coverage: Somernites Cruise 15th Anniversary Blow Out!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Hard to believe the Somernites Cruise is 15-years-old.  Tens of thousands of cars have come from far and wide to be seen and enjoyed by untold numbers of...

A Hint Of Truth In The Rumors: Is FCA Actually Going Through With The Jeep Pickup?!

FCA’s money maker is Jeep. This is a fact…while Ram trucks sell and Dodge has been gaining ground with speed, Jeep is the cash cow. It is why Chrysler bought out AMC in the first place in...

Ride On The Back Of The Quickest And Fastest Pontiac Powered Car In The World

If you are a devotee of the Pontiac brand than you surely know KRE or Kauffman Racing Equipment. These guys are hardcore Pontiac specialists and we don’t mean of the nut and bolt restoration...

Question Of The Day: What Do You Look For On A Roadtrip? From Tourist Stops To Hidden Treasures, We Want To Hear Them!

(Lead photo: via The Brougham Society) There are twenty-something days left until the September equinox and the end of summer for the year. Unless you live in the Desert Southwest, soon all of the...

Corvair War! This 1965 Hardtop With A V8 Crown Conversion Is Impossible To Beat

The Corvair war continues and rather than make this some sort of protracted long fight, I am going to level the heavy guns at McTaggart here and pretty much vaporize him from the face of the planet....