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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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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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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Alex Taylor Makes Two 236 MPH Record Breaking Runs To Set A Record And Get Her 200 MPH Club Red Hat! Speed Week 2024 – Day 5

It wasn’t without some hurdles, that’s for sure, but Alex Taylor did us all proud and wheeled the Camaro to a record qualifying 236 mph on Monday morning and then backed it up the same...

A Day At The Digs Circa The 1970s At Orange County International Raceway

I love these types of videos. Why? Because they really take you to a normal day at the drag strip decades ago and you realize that a normal day at the strip back then was about the same as it is now,...

1980s Supermodified Mayhem From Oswego Speedway In New York – Fire, Tempers, and Fires Flare!

There are few places if any that are more synonymous with Supermodified racing across the country than Oswego Speedway in New York. Opened in 1951 as a 5/8th mile dirt track it was that surface and...

A Formidable Fox: The 1992 SAAC Mark II Mustang Was Big Bucks Back In The Day But It Hauled

There were so many variants of the Fox Mustang built both by Ford and other places back in the 1980s and 1990s that it seems like a fool’s errand to try and place them all. Because of that,...

Big Thrash: Watch A Kiwi Caterpillar Crew Rebuild A D8R That Lives In Antarctica!

Overhauls are among our favorite things to watch on the internet. That’s doubly true when the video is produced and laid out as well as this one is. There’s a reason for that though....

Alex Taylor Is Racing At Bonneville Speed Week 2024 – Day 3 and 4 Means Some Racing, Some Thrashing, And More Racing!

As we said yesterday, Alex is back out at Bonneville after getting here licensing runs done last year here at Bonneville Speed Week, and she’s all fired up to be going after a record behind the...

Bonneville Speed Week 2024 Photos – The Salt Is Good, The Cars Are Crushing Records, And Speed Demon, Alex Taylor, And More Are Looking For Hats!

It’s so good to be back out at Bonneville, and I’ve been shooting photos all day each day, along with contributors Claudia Robles and Stephen Komlos. We’re going to be posting a...

Powershift: Road Trip! We’re talking about our favorites that have nothing to do with racing!

On last week’s edition of PowerShift, we were talking about road trips, and particularly the ones that have nothing to do with racing. So no One Lap of America, no Drag Week, no Rocky Mountain...

Influence and Impact – Car Audio History, AM Radio to Cars that Go Boom, World Record Sound Offs

Marcel and Jason are back at it, this time talking about Car Audio history and that means we’re going to hear about so many evolutionary and revolutionary steps in the area of automotive...

Finnegan Is Giving Away His Car! Here’s The Guy Who Won The Cool Datsun 510 That Mike Almost Burned Down!

Finnegan got this Datsun 510 not too long ago, nearly burned it to the ground, broke his leg on the same trip, and is now giving this thing away. Not because it is bad luck or anything, but because...

More Bonneville Speed Week 2024 Photos – We’re On The Salt, And Racing Started Yesterday! Hot Rods, Race Cars, Streamliners And More On The Salt!

Woot woot, we’ve got more photos to share! Check them out and we’ll have some more cool stuff coming soon! (Photos by Chad Reynolds) We’re back! I’ve been gone from the salt...

Salt Flats Here We Come! Alex Taylor Is Racing At Bonneville Speed Week 2024 – Day 1 and 2!

After licensing last year, Alex Taylor is back at Bonneville Speed Week for 2024 to see if she can set a record and get into the 200 mph club behind the wheel of the famed Turk and Freiburger Camaro....

Free LIVE Drag Racing From The Cornbelt Classic Cash Harvest Big Money Bracket Races At Cedar Falls Motorsports Park – $10,000 Friday

It’s time for more FREE live drag racing and that’s thanks to our friends at Gallstar TV who are bringing you all the live drag racing action this weekend from the Advantage RV Cash...

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING FROM THE 34th ANNUAL WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE – $5,000 Sunday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it started...