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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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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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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Is Cheap Engine Oil Just As Good As The Expensive Stuff? Does Your Diesel Actually Need The Good Stuff! Or Is Expensive Not Actually Better?

It seems like there are two kinds of vehicle owners. The first is the type that doesn’t much care what kind of oil goes in their engine as long as it is slippery. The second is the type that...

More National Tractor Pullers Association Tractor Pull Action Photos From The Mule City 300 At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) The National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA) opened their Grand National 2024 pulling season on the first weekend in June with a trip to Benson, NC to the...

War in the Woods Video- WRECKS, Close Calls & SKETCHY TRACK! To Call This Place Rough Would Be An Understatement

War in the Woods is an event that has grown to epic proportions in the last few years, but not just because it brings awesome racers and cars. It’s also one of the sketchiest joints...

The Big Money Shootout At Rocky Mountain Race Week Means Epic Racing On Day 5! Check It Out Here

Rocky Mountain Race Week is a bit different when compared to other Drag and Drive events, because unlike other events who crown winners only based on the average over five days, they crown averages...

Finnegan’s Twin-Turbo Cadillac Project Is Back! It’s Time For Some Headers And Turbo Plumbing!

Finnegan is back at it with the Caddy project and we’re glad to see it coming together. He’s got more fabrication to do before the mockup engine can get replaced by the real engine, but...

Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Bed Is Getting Designed!

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the bed start getting...

National Tractor Pullers Association Tractor Pull Action Photos From The Mule City 300 At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) The National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA) opened their Grand National 2024 pulling season on the first weekend in June with a trip to Benson, NC to the...

Does Iron Trap Garage’s Fresh Blown Ardun OHV Flathead Fit In Their 1933 3-Window Coupe?

A couple of weeks ago we shared a video from the guys at Iron Trap Garage that featured a bad ass Blown Ardun headed flathead Ford that is truly something rare and special. If you missed the previous...

Olds Gutless Supreme: This Review Of The 1988 Cutlass Shows A Good Car With One Massive Flaw

While the Oldsmobiles of the late 1980s and into the 1990s made awesome looking drag cars (and still do!) they didn’t exactly come out of the gate flying in 1988, especially the Cutlass. Sales...

Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!

Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...

Mind Blown: There Were Helicopter Airlines In The 1960s And They Were Going To Be The Future (They Weren’t)

This is the type of stuff we truly love to find. When you run into something that happened or some weird trend that was being pushed as the future which died out and you never knew it existed, the...

Lap Le Mans In A Porsche 936 Circa 1977 – Watch This 200+ Mph Monster Swallow Carreras Like Skittles

One of my top “must do” motorsport items is to attend the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race is unequivocally historic, it is fast as hell, it is one of the great traditions in racing and it...

Who Makes The Best Compact Impact Gun? Because Most Stuff On Your Ride Doesn’t Need A 1000 LbFt Impact To Remove Or Install It!

I know that a lot of “normal” people will buy a compact impact driver to drive screws and do DIY stuff at home, but they also have a place in your toolbox for working on cars. With the...

Exact Same Pliers, Not The Exact Same Price! $35 Malco or $132 Snap On: Same USA-made Eagle Grip 11″ Locking Pliers. Hot deal

In 2024 it is not uncommon for tool companies to outsource manufacturing of their products to specialists in each kind of tool. You can imagine that having a factory capable of making sockets,...