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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Saturday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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NHRA Pro Mod Series Qualifying Sessions LIVE from the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte. Ultimate Door Car Action!

NHRA 4-Wide Drag Racing is going on in Charlotte this weekend and that means Pro Mods! 4-Wide Pro Mod drag racing might be some of the coolest, and the action is always amazing at this race. We know...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Friday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Thursday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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This Last-Lap Accident At Red Bull Ring Is One For The Books – And They Walked Away

When the only thing between you and the end of the race is one lap, desperation sets in. If you’re first, you will do everything you can to stay there. If you’re in second, you will do...

Unhinged: When The Nerves Really Set In Before You Hammer Down

Saturday was not a hot day. In fact, cool and cloudy conditions in Wilmington provided the racers with good air to run in and kept the course workers from the usual routine of roasting out on the...

Close Call Video: Guy Almost Gets Squashed Between Two Cars At Local Sanctioned Street Race – Be Careful!

The idea of a city allowing an organized street race as part of an event or show is pretty awesome. The cooperation that is required on both sides must be enormous and it is likely a series of...

Project Angry Grandpa: Running For Broke At Wilmington – The Final Baseline Test!

Taking our project 2006 Chrysler 300C to a land-speed racing event at first doesn’t seem right, does it? It’s too heavy to be that impressive, it’s still pretty much stock, and we...

Question Of The Day: What Car From The Past Could Be Sold Now And Make It As A New Car?

For the most part, you can look at any car in any parking lot anywhere and be able to guess what time period it came from. Big chrome railroad ties and ill-fitting panel gaps? 1970s. Monochromatic,...

Watch What Happened When Oil Got Under The Tires Of Alky Funny Car Racer Gary Phillips!

Gary Phillips is Australian drag racing royalty. If it burns alcohol, he has won in it. From dragsters to funny cars, and top door slammer machines, Phillips has amassed an incredible 17 Australian...

Video: This Ford Flathead V8 Powered 1970s John Deere Lawn Tractor Is Homebuilt BangShift Perfection!

(Words and video – Dawn Mazi Hovsepian) – I don’t know which is cooler.  A ‘37 Ford Flathead stuffed between the frame rails of an early 70s John Deere 200 lawn tractor, or the fact...

Coupe De Kill Update: TRIUMPH! 205+ MPH In Monstrous Car With Caddy Power – Wow!

We are overjoyed to report that the infamous “Coupe De Kill” 1970 Cadillac Coupe DeVille of Sean Mote has run over 200mph for the first time, earning Sean a spot in the ECTA 200mph club...

Lancaster Dragway Pro Mod Shootout Action – Sportsman and Crazed Pro Mod Photos

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – It was a good old fashioned drag strip brawl at Lancaster Dragway’s pro mod shootout a short while back. Held on a weekday night, the place was filled, there...

In Car Video: An Aussie Falcon XY-GTHO Carves Through the Field at Bathurst

When is comes to Australian muscle cars, few have the type of mythological aura around them that the 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO. Rated by Ford at 300hp, reality was that the 351 Cleveland was good for...

Crazy Video: Watch Larry “Drums” Brancaccio’s Horrifying Nitro Harley Crash From IHRA Cordova

Larry “Drums” Brancaccio suffered what has to have been both the most painful and the most harrowing incident of his career a couple weeks back at the IHRA Cordova race when his nitro...

Watch Four Humvee Trucks Get Sucked Out The Back Of A Cargo Plane With Parachutes – Very Cool Stuff

The biggest job the military has is to get the guys fighting the supplies and equipment they need in the quickest, most efficient way possible while making sure said stuff actually gets to where it...

Watch Aussie Top Fuel Driver Phil Lamattina’s TF Dragster Break In Half Just Like Larry Dixon’s – He Is Banged Up

In an incident that was eerily similar to Larry Dixon’s at the NHRA Gatornationals, Australian top fuel hero Phil Lamattina’s dragster split in two during a run at Willowbank Raceway last...

This 1964 Chevy Dually Is One Of The Coolest Mid-1960s Trucks We Have Lusted After In A While

It is tough to claim that any generation of Chevrolet truck is “unloved” but the reality is that the square trucks of the middle 1960s are kind of the forgotten sisters of the Chevy truck...