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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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Pavement Pounder Events Announces “Motor City to Wheel Hub Live” 2026 Road Trip And We’re Excited To Be Their Official Media Partner!

Pavement Pounder Events is back in 2026 in a HUGE way, with an incredibly exciting road trip event that will be starting in the Motor City and heading to Wheel Hub Live! That’s right, you get...

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Cordless Ratchet Testing And Review: The New DeWALT XR And New Milwaukee Ratchets Face Off

It’s time for some more tool testing and this time it is one of my favorite cordless tools, even though it took forever for me to start using one. I, like many of you out there, seem to reach for...

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NITRO FUNNY CAR ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 IHRA DRAG RACING SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Motorsports Park in Dunn, North Carolina, where racers are going to be battling...

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NHRA NEWS: 2026 NHRA PRO MOD DRAG RACING SERIES SUNDAY RESULTS FROM PHOENIX

JUSTIN BOND WINS IN PHOENIX IN JBS EQUIPMENT NHRA PRO MOD SERIES AT RACE POWERED BY LAT RACING OILS CHANDLER, Ariz. (March 22, 2026) — Justin Bond outlasted an impressive field in the JBS...

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Capturing Car Culture With Larry Chen: The Definition of Car Culture And Everything He Discovered in Brazil. You Don’t Want To Miss This One!

Larry Chen has seen some cool stuff. He’s incredibly fortunate to have experienced car culture, events, builds, builders, manufacturers, and more all over the world. So when he goes somewhere...

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This Brazillian Chevette Will Stomp It’s Way To A 9-second Quarter Mile!

In America, mentioning a Chevrolet Chevette brings up images of the tiny little front-engined, rear drive hatchbacks that graced our presence from 1976-1987. They were cheap, basic, and essentially...

Tri-Five Chevy Heaven At The Somernites Cruise! Some Of The Coolest Shoeboxes You’ll Ever See

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Each Somernites weekend spotlights a certain model, type, or make of vehicle.  For the last event of 2014 it was the ’55 – ’57 Chevy and we were...

This 1969 Dodge D300 Open Road Camper Is So Cool We’re Nearly Speechless!

I actually fear for what will happen to Chad when he sees this blog item. The guy is going to make some weird gasping noises, clutch his chest, maybe swallow his beard, and just go down like a ton of...

2015 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage: Hot Rods And Vintage Drag Race Iron You’ll Love

It seems impossible but I’m starting to run out of photos to post from the 2015 Grand National Roadster Show. After the hundreds and hundreds I have posted this week, I am going to need to tag...

Drag Week Heroes And Exotics At The 2015 Pittsburgh World Of Wheels – Neat Stuff Abounds

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – As we continue to make our way through Mike Brooks’ awesome photos from the 2015 Pittsburgh World of Wheels we came upon an awesome chunk that are centered...

Ride Along In A Vintage 1963 Pontiac Stock Car At Hickory Speedway – Nostalgia Stock Car Racing Rules

As much as we love our nostalgia drag racing around here, the expanding popularity of vintage stock car racing has us pretty excited. Guys are dragging out period correct cars and they are also...

Historic Race Cars And Hot Rods From The Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – An area was set aside at this event for survivor cars and cars with real history.  This isn’t ‘nostalgia’.  This is the real deal stuff.  It’s...

Ebay Find: Anyone Want A Super-Huge Super Duty?

Say you have eight thousand dollars and a thing for huge trucks. What do you do? Sure, there’s tons of big pickup trucks on Craigslist, but that just isn’t big enough. Well, allow me to...

This Kelderman Built 2015 Ford F-350 King Ranch Tops The Charts In Size, Capability, And Comfort

(Words by Kasey Sutherland – Photos by DWS Photography) – When you see a truck that catches your eye, sometimes you just have to have it. When Todd Peverill came across a Super Duty on...

Ebay Find: 1969 Jeep Gladiator, Powered By 500 Cubic Inches Of Cadillac Power

You have to love a Jeep truck. M-715, J-10, Gladiator…call it whatever you want, but the basic premise is there: it’s a bulletproof tank of a truck that’s dead simple to work on....

Watch In-Car Video of a Pinto Drag Car Pull a Vertical Wheelie and Taco the Front End

Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park (formerly Norwalk Raceway Park) in Ohio is one of the fastest, nicest, and hardest hooking drag strips in the country. We’ve been there back when it was...

This 1950 Power Wagon Will Kill The Purists But It Is One Capable And Gnarly Off Road Machine

This is one of those trucks that will have people cranked up pretty wildly in both directions. The purists will bemoan the chopping up and modifying of a sweet 1950 Dodge Power Wagon and the heathens...

Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Excuse You’ve Ever Heard Anyone Give For Not Liking A Car?

The video of the guy from Vehicle Virgins who listed why he disliked the 2005-era Ford GT drew some sharp fire. While I wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, the rest of you went straight...

Wild In Car Video Of What It Is Like To Make A Pass At The Merrill Ice Drags – Full Throttle On The Frozen Eighth Mile!

So just because the glaciers come in and swallow everything during the winters in Wisconsin doesn’t mean that hot rodding has to stop. Sure, if someone from California set foot on a frozen lake...