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Dirt Track Racer Charged With Assault After Ramming Other Car In The Pits: On Track Contact Leads To Race Rage Incident and Ban From Racing.

Every racer and fan knows that in the heat of competition emotions and adrenaline run high. We’ve all seen it, when a couple of drivers bump and bang and then it continues off track. But...

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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Audi Neuters The TT, One Expensive Ford And Fiat Shows Up Mazda!

It’s been another week in the office. The grind has worn you thin, and you partied like a rock star on Friday night, and maybe even into the early hours of the morning. But now you’re...

Would You Rather, The Big Boy Special: Take Your Pick Between The Nitrous Mud GMC And The Twin-Turbo Dune-Running Chevy!

1973-1987 Chevrolet trucks are just plain awesome. They straddled the gap between a working man’s pickup and a comfortable family truck nicely, they were simple enough to work on, they could...

Carnage Video: This Poor Chrysler Limousine Is Another Victim To The Still-Undefeated Freight Train

Freight trains and limousines have one thing…and only one thing…in common: they are long. And that is only a matter of scale. A freight train has thousands of horsepower on tap, weighs in...

Money Can’t Buy Everything, Round Two: Ferrari Vs. Brown Wagon – Can A Diesel Volkswagen Maul A 458 Italia?

Oy, this one hurts me. On one hand, you have a pedestrian, ordinary station wagon that is more than able to whoop the ass of Ferrari’s 458, one of the most lauded super cars in recent memory....

Rough Start: This 1963 Buick Electra 225 Is A Wyoming Survivor That Only Needs Some Brightening

Trying to score a bonafide classic car on a $5000 total budget isn’t going to fly in most circumstances. Nobody wants to be seen in an out-and-out rot box, and if it is pretty you are running...

Diesel Power Challenge 2015 Video: The Trucks Attack The Trailer Tow Obstacle Course

If there is an event I was looking forward to at the Diesel Power Challenge 2015, it is was this one. The trailer towing obstacle course is the best combo of man and machine we have at the event and...

NHRA Chicago 2015 Photo Bomb: Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Stock, and Super Stock Action!

(Photos by Dom Damato/DRD Photos) – Outside of the Chevrolet Performance US Nationals, the greatest assemblage of sportsman drag racing talent that tour sees is at the Joliet race each year....

Want To Haul Like A Pro Drag Racer From The Early 1980s? This GMC Is For You!

Today it is not entirely uncommon to see junior dragsters lugged to the track in a toter home and stacker trailer setup. This is complete insanity and you can basically blame Billy Meyer for all of...

MSD Drops The Rev’n Rebate For The Summer Of 2015 – Up To $50 Back On Purchases For Your Car Or Truck

As the kids would say, MSD Performance has the rebate game on lock these days. The company has a few programs that they run throughout the year and right now we are in the heart of the 2015...

PDRA Maryland Action: Our Last Blast Of Images From The East Coast’s Craziest Doorslammer Throw Down

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Well, after days and days of photos we have finally gotten down to the bottom of the well and we have to thank Benoit Pigeon for all of the images he provided to us...

New IndyCar Conduct Rules Aim To Remove Negative Statements – The Walls Are Really Closing In Now

IndyCar officials are insisting that their new conduct and speech rules for people involved in the series is not a gag-order and they are right. The rules are NOT a gag-order, they are a muzzle. In...

Craigslist Hate Sale: This Jilted Husband Is Selling His Truck So His Cheating Wife Doesn’t Get It Back

Well this is a bit of a plot twist! We have showed you ads in the past where people were angrily selling things because of a divorce case or because they had to. In this situation we have someone...

Meltdown Drags Coverage: A/FX Cars, Gassers, Injected Doorslammers, and More!

(Photos by Greg and Jason Rourke) – Through drag racing, the point of the exercise has always been to find ways to go faster no matter what. Lots of the cars in this collection of photos...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Did You Ever Stop And Think, “Maybe It Really Is Me?”

I stopped in the store again the other night, mostly to troll for something else to turn into a kind of funny, kind of concerning rant that documents the Tom and Jerry-like relationship between a...

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