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Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors headquarters in Lincoln, NE is right across the parking lot from the Museum Of American Speed. Together, they put on a cars and coffee gathering...

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NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, And Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $50,000 Sunday

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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This Dude Rode His 1/4-Scale RC Dragster on the Street as a Stand-up Scooter And Is Winning For The Coolest Scooter Ever!

Electric scooters are great. They are super useful, fun, and popular. People in big cities are using them to commute with now, kids are using them like kids do and are having fun with them like we...

Watch 1971 California Highway Patrol Officers Slide, Spin, and Haul in 440ci Powered Polaras

We have to thank a Mopar lovin’ tipster for this killer 25-minute film depicting California Highway Patrol driver training in 1971. The police cars shown in this video are 1971 Dodge Polaras...

What’s It Like To Drive A 900hp Vintage McLaren Can-Am Car? Let Driver Andy Newall Tell You

Here’s a great look at what it is like and what it takes to drive a 900hp vintage McLaren Can-Am Car. Driver Andy Newall talks not only about the immense power of the car, not only about the...

Awesomely Weird: This 1970s Chevrolet Parts Film Stars Evel Knievel And Literally Makes No Sense

We’re guessing someone lost their job for this one. You are going to watch this 1970s Chevrolet parts film which stars Evel Knivel and makes literally no sense at all. The theme of the film is...

Check Out These Snapshots Of American Mechanical History – Cool Cars, Factories, More

(Photos from Detroit Public Library Digital Collection) – It has been a while since I got myself lost in the digital stacks of the Detroit Public Lbrary’s photo and image collection. I...

Tony Angelo Swaps An 800+ Horsepower NASCAR V8 Into His 1955 Chevy Street Car! Part 2: The Ultimate Header Fab Going ON Now!

Tony Angelo is back at it on his cool 1955 Chevy, and even if we weren’t Tri-Five fans around here we’d totally approve of the 800+ horsepower small-block NASCAR combo he’s got...

Are These Lost Fabrication Skills That Nobody Uses Anymore? Does Anyone Care? Heat, Metal, And Force Make Some Cool Stuff.

In this day and age of welders that tell you what settings to use, and cnc everything, I think that some folks forget to use the basics sometimes. Shaping metal can be done with complicated,...

Jay Leno Is Exploring the Last Dodge Charger Police Pursuit Vehicle with Tim Kuniskis, The CEO Of Dodge and Ram

If you are a Mopar fan, and a fan of police cars, then this one is going to hit home for you. This here is the last Dodge Charger Police Pursuit Vehicle. There will be no more. It’s the end of...

Drag Racing 3,000HP Semi Trucks With 120,000 Pound Trailers! 1320Video Visited Michigan For These Epic Uphill Big Rig Races!

We’ve shared plenty of big rig drag race videos over the years, and in the last couple of years 1320Video has provided a few of them. I mean who wouldn’t want to check out 25,000 pound...

HOW TO MAKE MORE BBC TORQUE FOR TOWING-454 VS 496 VS 496. DUAL PLANE VS SINGLE PLANE VS TUNNEL RAM!

I’ve been wanting to build a new big block for my square body Chevrolet Dually for the last couple years, and now that it has hurt itself I really need to get on it. Of course, like all car...

Watch An Out Of Control Porsche Nearly Wipe Out Two People In A Megabusa (Lotus 7 Variant) Sports Car On The ‘Ring

Imagine that you are just minding your business, hauling around the famed Nurburgring with your girlfriend in your little Megabusa sports car (think of a Lotus 7 and you’ve pretty much got it)...

Full Time Job: This 1970s Chevrolet Film Promotes The Company’s Tried and Tough Full Time 4-Wheel Drive System

There’s a distinct formula for a 1970s car maker promotional video. Step one, hire a dude who has been smoking four packs a day for thirty years. Step two, find some cool but ultimately...

Watching a Locomotive Turbocharger Get Serviced Is Just As Awesome As You Think It Is

This is one of those times when we really don’t have much to tell you about the context of the video below other than to say, THIS TURBO IS FLIPPING HUGE AND WATCHING IT GET REBUILT IT IS...

Video: The Story Of The Only Car In F1 History Powered By A Turbine – An Experiment Short-Lived

This is the story of the only turbine powered car to ever race Formula One. Originally a machine designed to win the Indy 500, which it nearly did, the transition from ovals to road courses three...