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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Friday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The Monaco Historic Grand Prix

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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2015 Bay Area VW Club Poker Run – Shine, Patina, Customs, Even A Kit Car Or Two!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While the VW Beetle may have had some nefarious beginnings, it was (and continues to be) a worldwide icon of fun, freedom, and a blank canvass for anyone with...

Highway Creepers Show Coverage: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Event

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – For about as long as there have been people messing with cars there have been car clubs serving as places for enthusiasts to gather, bench race, fight, talk smack,...

Naked And Love Autocross? RideTech’s New Shirts Can Fix Your Problem And Share Your Love Of Cone Killing

Outside of court appearances, weddings, and funerals, you we live in t-shirts. Ok, in New England there may be a couple of months where the t-shirt is a secondary layer but you get what we are...

2015 FE Race and Reunion: Our Last Blast Of Killer Photos From The Pits – A Cammer Powered Fairmont?!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Hardcore Ford fans came in droves to Pennsylvania’s Beaver Springs Dragway over the weekend of April 24th & 25th 2015 for the third annual FE Race and...

Event Gallery: 14th Annual Quick Fuel Technology NCMA Muscle Car Nationals At Beech Bend

The recipe looked great for a promising weekend of racing. The track staff at Beech Bend in Bowling Green, Kentucky had busted their backsides getting the track just right, and plenty of NCMA racers...

“Test” Video: Chris Harris Gets Cut Loose With The New Porsche GT3RS…After A Bit Of An Apology

Right off the bat I’ll admit it: I could frankly care less about a Porsche. Don’t ask me why, it’s one of those odd things, like Brian’s hatred of the Ford Thunderbird, but...

This Jaguar F-Type Will Be The Pace Car And Emergency Vehicle For The Bloodhound SSC

The Bloodhound SSC is being designed to max out at 1,000 MPH on land. And the team behind it is damn serious about that goal. But the team has to have support for when they run. A myriad of vehicles...

Mercury Racing Releases New OptiMax Diesel Outboard – Spark Fired Diesel V6, Incredibly Interesting Engine

While we’re not usually the types to get excited about outboard boat engines, this one is something to behold. Called the Mercury Racing OptiMax, it is a 175hp, 3.0L V6 diesel engine that was...

NTPA Pulling Action Photos: Flying Dirt, Smoking Tractors, And Crazed Trucks From the NTPA Pinetops 300

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – What does a small quiet downeast North Carolina town of Pinetops (pop. 1360) do for excitement after the hosting the best Christmas parade east of...

Rough Start: This 401-powered AMC Spirit AMX Is Another Slight Stretch Of The Budget Worth Making

If there is one car above all the others that has been eating at the back of my mind lately it is any of the AMC Spirit models. They are a good sized car, they are unique, they are a fairly handsome...

$20K Gets You In The Seat Of This Clean, Big Block Chrysler Powered, Pro Street 1966 Charger – Good Buy?

The 1966 Charger is certainly on the unloved side of things when compared to its slightly younger brothers produced later on in the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Maybe it was the Marlin-esque...

Show Coverage: 2015 Bay Area VW Club Poker Run – One Awesome Texas VW Gathering!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The old saw is that “everything is bigger in Texas” and our own Charles Wickam lived up to that adage last weekend when he managed to attend multiple...

Takata Airbag Recall: Takata Admits Airbag Inflators Are Faulty, Recalling Nearly 34 Million Vehicles

In what may become the largest nationwide recall ever of a product, Takata, the  automotive safety manufacturer who has been in the headlines for airbag inflators that can explode into shrapnel,...

The Green Needle: Four Days With A 2015 Challenger Hellcat Has Us Addicted To 700hp Blown Hemi Fun

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – If I had never considered speed or horsepower drugs before getting four days with a 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat, I sure as hell do now. It is everything I have in...