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LIVE STREAMING | Race 1 | Misano | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

It is endurance racing season, and boy is it in full swing! There have been more endurance races in the last few weeks than we could imagine, and there are even more to come. It’s summertime racing...

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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round Round 5 – Alton Powerboat Nationals F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 4 Adventures Continue For All The Racers. And It Rains!

Big Sky Race Week coverage continues thanks to Bill and the crew at BANGshift Billy. This time it is their Day 4 video from a rain soaked highway somewhere.  Can Bill hang on to 1st place on Day 4....

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FREE LIVESTREAM: CASH DAYS at The Hill with Happy and Limpy! KD Dragways Hosts One Hell Of An Event! Watch Here.

It doesn’t matter whether you call it KD Motorsports Park, KD Dragway, or The Hill, everyone knows that some bad ass no prep races go on there and that it is one of the more unique drag strips in...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The ACE Triple $20,000 Races Are LIVE From Darana Dragway 42 – SATURDAY

The ACE Triple $20,000 Races are live this weekend from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio, and we’ve got all the action coming to you live and free right here thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV. Racing...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: NHRA Jr. Dragster Eastern Conference Finals Weekend! Saturday Racing Right Here from Bristol.

If you are fan of the up and comers in NHRA sportsman drag racing, then you are going to love the Right Trailers Jr. Eastern Conference Finals being held this weekend at the Thunder Valley in Bristol...

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Bitchin’ Video: Ride On The Scoop Of A 1971-Era Top Fuel Dragster From Push Start Through The Finish Line!

Some videos will be cool until the end of time. I happened upon this magical four minutes of 1971 top fuel footage completely by accident and boy am I happy that I did. This clip is from the seldom...

What The Truck? This Hand Built 1960 Ford F850 Super Duty Crew Cab Took A Lot More Than You Might Think To Get This Cool

I’m a big fan of crew cab trucks, and especially those that either didn’t exist or were super rare back in the 1960s. There are a couple of builders in the country doing C50 and C60 GM...

Influence and Impact – Car Audio History Part 2, Big Sound Systems, OEM Integration to Car Play, Car Stereo Systems Aren’t Just Radios Anymore.

Marcel and Jason are back at it for Part 2 of the Car Audio history episode, and that means we’re going to hear about so many evolutionary and revolutionary steps in the area of automotive...

Newbern And The Boys Get All Of His Cars Ready For A Proper Goodbye To His Dad. God Speed Ronald Newbern, You Did Good.

None of us gets out of this life alive, but we sure hope to leave it better than when we got here. That’s not the case for everyone, but I hope it is for the majority. A special few make an...

BARN FIND Anniversary Corvette Parked 37 YEARS! Will it RUN AND DRIVE Home For Derek? Or Will This Be A Vice Grip Garage Disaster?

Barn finds are awesome in general, but when you know the story behind the car and the people who owned it actually cared about it, it is something a bit more special than a car that was just parked...

Better Burnouts Through Science! Finnegan Helps A Friend Make Cooler Air, And More Power, In A 10 Second Suburban Burnout Machine

An LS Swapped squarebody GM truck is nothing new, even if this one is a 3/4 ton Suburban. But when you have a very simple, stock bottom end 6.0 in it that makes 800 at the tire then even this 4600 lb...

1974 Duster Walkaround with Steve Magnante: One Of Plymouth’s Coolest Muscle Cars Could Be Yours

As many of you know, our friend Steve Magnante nearly died from a brain infection he got last year, but has been making big improvements over the past few months. We would have loved seeing Steve...

BC Video: The 1982 Toyota Cressida Shows Us Life Before The Camry – It Was Another Hit For Toyota

When the “foreign invasion” of cars really kicked off in earnest, we all know what Detroit did. They ignored it. Eventually they simply gave up the ground of economy and compact cars...

Boosts Of Burden: This Video Profiles 10 Of The Coolest, Weirdest, and Most Interesting Boosted Race Engines Ever

This is an interesting collection of boosted engines. Before you drag racers out there get your dander up about not seeing a fuel engine in this collection, just know it’s mostly road racing...

Goofy Fun: Check Out The Destruction Of The Easy Evans Used Car Lot At The Houston Astrodome

Sometimes it’s about having fun, right? When you flip on the tube or click on a YouTube link, you want to be entertained. This is one of the best examples of the magic of Brock Yates and Steve...

Historic Gearhead Americana: Packard Car Haulers, Army Trucks, Big Rigs, Turn of The Century Car Shows, and More!

(Photos from Detroit Public Library Digital Archive) – I know some pretty tough people but I’m not sure even the modern toughies I know would thrive in the harsh realities of the world...

Chrome Pot Metal Step by Step Restoration. Can It Be Done, Or Is Pot Metal Not Able To Be Re-Chromed?

One of the more frustrating parts of restoring a car or truck can be the trim parts. Stainless trim can be difficult to straighten and polish, plastic parts take a whole different set of skills, and...

Check Out Our Long Lost Chicago Auto Show Photos From Earlier This Year! Jim Hrody Got The Goods!

(Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) After going up and down in size a few times in the past few years, the 2024 Chicago Auto Show returned to a single hall at McCormick Place. Corporate support was...

We’ve Got Even More Bonneville Speed Week 2024 Photos! Seriously, Nobody Shares More Bonneville Coverage Than We Do!

Check out the latest gallery from our time at Bonneville below, and don’t forget that you can click on any photo to make it larger and to scroll through the entire slideshow. And if you...