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

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 LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

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: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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Two Old Guys In A Corvette: 46th President Joe Biden Speed Shifts His 1967 Corvette with Jay Leno on the Streets of Southern California

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or Independents, none of it matters if you are a real car guy. In the video below you’ll see Jay Leno and President Joe Biden take a ride through SoCal in...

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Ride Along with Brian Otts in the #13 Super Modified Running The A-Main at Meridian Speedway From 11th to 4th!

If you aren’t familiar with Super Modified circle track cars, then you are missing out. This year at PRI, my buddy Bigun and I walked all around one drooling the whole time. While they do have...

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This 1500+hp, Twin Turbo 454 LSx Powered Toyota Mini-Van Is An Aussie Toyota We Can Totally Get Behind

There’s an old expression that I like to use while announcing as a way to sum up a weird, different, or completely off the wall car. “If you are going to be a bear, you may as well be a...

Dragway 42 Opening Delayed Until 2015 – Construction Work Slowed Due To Poor Weather Conditions

Ma Nature can take the best laid plans and make mince meat of them and that’s about what’s happened to the team at Dragway 42 out in Ohio this Spring/Summer. The issue is rain and they...

Climb To The Clouds 2014 – Action Photos Show How Hairy This Sprint Up Mount Washington Really Is

(Words and Photos by Joe Staska) – David Higgins with co-driver Craig Drew broke the Mount Washington Climb To The Clouds record set in 2011 by roughly two seconds with an official time of...

This Hilarious Craigslist Ad Makes Us Want To Buy The Engineless 1978 El Camino It Is Pitching

BangShifter Jake McDonald gets the gold star for finding and pointing us in the direction of this hilarious and awesome Craigslist ad selling a 1978 Chevy El Camino in Oregon. We have seen some funny...

Awesome News For Northwest Drag Fans – Spokane County Raceway Joins IHRA

  Ever since Orville Moe, the longtime owner and operator of Spokane Raceway Park was thrown out of his facility in 2008 by track investors and the courts, the County-owned facility has been in...

Watch This Subaru WRX Slog Through The Mud Pit At The West Coast Subaru Show

Subaru folks are a bit rabid about their cars, and for good reason. The turbocharged flat-fours are torquey, the AWD system works great, they can haul ass, and they can play in the dirt just as...

Rough Start: A Rally Sport Camaro Hiding In Maine Needs Your Help

Maine: The most northern and eastern section of the Continental United States, surrounded by seawater and Canadians, with a small path to New Hampshire acting as a connector. I wasn’t sure what...

Ebay Find: Pontiac G8 ST Phantom For Sale-Now You Can Own An Aussie Ute Legally!

It was not a good time to be a Pontiac fan in 2009. The only bright spot in the black hole that had formed in GM’s headquarters was the G8, which was the Holden Commodore being sold as a captive...

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2014 Dunkirk Harbor Cruise Coverage: Weird Motors And Loads Of Cool Cars – See ‘Em All!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We’re back with another load of photos from the 2014 Dunkirk Harbor Cruise and thanks to Mike Brooks we have a load of neat stuff to show you. From Jag engines...

Watch This Monster Durango Go For Airborne Gold

Try, try, and try again. That’s what our mothers kept telling us when we were wanting to give up from repeated failure, in the hopes that if we pushed the limits one more time that we would...

Racing Junk Find: This 1972 Dodge Colt Wagon Is A Low 11-Second Bracket Bomber From Mopar Heaven

Dodge Colts are cool for a couple of reasons. Firstly, you don’t see them all that often. Secondly, they have interesting history in the sport of drag racing and were found in Pro Stock and...

G-Body GM Guys Rejoice! Full-Length Headers From Hedman Are Now 50-State Emmissions Legal

We dig GM G-Bodies around here. They are relatively light, have suspension that allows them to do anything, and you can stuff just about any combo into one. Unfortunately with increasing emissions...

Glory Days Nostalgia Drags Coverage From Maple Grove: Old Drag Iron From Barn Fresh To Restored Perfection

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Just about a week ago, our man on the Pennsylvanian scene Joe Grippo attended the Glory Days nostalgia drags at Maple Grove Raceway and sent us a boatload of photos...

Watch BMW Turn An Aircraft Carrier Into The Ultimate Racetrack… Or Did They?

We’ve seen a lot of cars race fighter jets on aircraft carriers, including Top Fuel Dragsters, but this video from BMW is using A LOT more of the aircraft carrier than we’ve ever seen...