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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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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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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Car Feature: The Big Iron 1956 Chevy Gasser Is About As BangShift Approved As They Come – Killer!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Some of us who long for the more-simple, older days of hot-rodding wonder if younger generations ‘get it’.  Ryan Pope is a 28-year-old from Southern...

Quick Gallery: Some Of The Local Flavor At The JDRF Crusin’ For A Cure In Bowling Green, Kentucky

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund Crusin’ For A Cure car show series in Bowling Green, Kentucky brings out the local crowd every week for a car show at Bruster’s Ice Cream’s...

Watch The 1985 Big Bud Shootout From Indy – Great Names, Great Cackle, Great Dry Hops, Great History

In working on all of my stuff for the upcoming Chevrolet Performance US Nationals, I came upon this video from 1985 that features nothing but the action from the Big Bud Shootout. Since the Traxxas...

Meet The HMMWV’s New Replacement: The Oshkosh L-ATV

The HMMWV, AM General’s military truck that has been in service since 1984, has a replacement, after years of testing and several prototypes. Oshkosh Defense was awarded the $6.75 billion (!!)...

Tri-Five Nationals 2015: Here’s Our Final Blast Of Photos From This Great Event

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) –  Like our coverage of the Syracuse Nationals, this will be our final photo gallery from the 2015 Tri-Five Nationals. Few shows or events in recent memory have had...

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...