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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Wild Video: Dennis Anderson Power Wheelies the King Sling Mud Truck Over Backwards!

If you combined an alcohol dragster, a monster truck, and a lunatic you would get Dennis Anderson and his insane King Sling mud truck. Rolling on massive tractor tires and powered by a motor that has...

Fun Video: Watch What Happens When A Junky Saturn Is Shot By A Civil War Cannon (Spoiler Alert: Destruction Inside!)

It is Sunday. That means at some point tomorrow you’ll probably fantasize about taking a piece of artillery to your office, the boss’s car, a customer, or the guy who takes too long to...

Carnage Video: Rear Engine Funny Car Backflip!

While rear-engine fuel dragsters took over the Top Fuel world in the 1970s, the rear-engine Funny Car never really made it off the launch pad. Yes there was mild success with them in the hands of...

SEMA Preview: Nine Rides We Could Do Without Seeing On The Floor

SEMA can be the best that the automotive arena has to offer, but sometimes beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Both times I’ve gone, I’ve found myself wondering just how a particular...

Unhinged: The Dangers Involved With Pushing The Limits Is Simply A Reality And Must Be Accepted

This week has been a low spot for the space community. One Scaled Composites pilot was killed and another seriously injured when the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo shuttle craft suffered an...

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Question Of The Day: What Else Will Get The Hellcat Treatment?

The numbers don’t lie, the Hellcat engine has been quite a stimulation for Dodge’s sales, with the Hellcat getting a surprising start. And the Charger Hellcat has been warming the hearts...

Peak Antifreeze To Sponsor John Force’s Funny Car For 2015 And Beyond

That’s right folks. It was announced this afternoon that John Force will carry the Peak Antifreeze and Bluedef Diesel Exhaust Fluid brands on his funny car for 2015 and beyond. In addition,...

UPDATE: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Has Been Lost

UPDATE 11/01/2014: In images released by AP, it is apparent that SpaceShipTwo USS Enterprise suffered an explosion in-flight that caused the breakup of the craft, bringing it down into the Mojave...

BREAKING NEWS: Captain Jack McClure Will Race His Famous Rocket Go Kart In Two Weeks At Motec Word Finals In Florida

WOW! About six months ago, Captain Jack McClure contacted us and said that he was close in getting permission to run his famed hydrogen peroxide rocket kart at a drag strip here in the USA for the...

In Japan They Run Top Fuel Cars On Unprepped Surfaces And The Results Are As Wild As You’d Expect (Video)

Yes, there are top fuel cars in Japan. Yes, they get run. No they don’t prep the tracks…at all. Why? People we have spoken to told us that prepping the track is viewed as...

SEMA 2013: Brian’s Favorite Cars and Trucks From The 2013 SEMA Show

Editor’s note: As busy and completely insane as 2014 has been, I can remember shooting every one of these photos last year at the SEMA show. I am sure looking forward to any surprises that the...

SEMA 2013 Mini-Feature: Galpin Ford’s Recreation Of The Awesome Backup Pickup Wheelstander Rules

Editor’s note: Our 2014 SEMA show coverage will begin in earnest on Monday, so this weekend we’re looking back at least year’s show to get you revved up! So the SEMA 2013 hits keep...

This Pulling Truck Has A Giant LED Screen On The Front For Spectators To See Engine Vitals And A V8 That Revs To Nearly 10,000 RPM

So we love truck pulling here and you know that. You know that because we have shared hundreds of videos over the years of creations big and small pulling the sled. This is something entirely new...

Roadkill! Freiburger And Finnegan Are Back With An Outtake Show, Plus Two Big Teasers

Normally, an outtake show is essentially where the stars phone in an episode, but the guys at Roadkill had a good reason to: they have amassed tons of great footage over the years that had not been...