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Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: The Biggest and Baddest Truck Show In The Country!

Here’s our last gallery from LST 2026! Man  what a great show this is. I hope all of you at home put it on your list for 2027! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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Nitro Funny Car Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing Goodness!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Highlight Video: Sportsman Drag Racing Action from the 2026 AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Here we go! NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing is some of the finest on the planet. Sportsman Drag Racing is the lifeblood of drag racing, drag strips, and the hobby in general, so when NHRA announced that...

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OG Mini Truck Customizing: Jendro’s Chop Shop Putting Maxima Headlights in this Clean Nissan 720!!

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a ton of custom truck mods involving head lights and tail lights. A couple of the more well known were using Nissan Maxima lights in Nissan 720 pickups and Ford...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Body Chop, Rock Sliders & Cage Plates As Fabrication Continues

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one...

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IHRA News: Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series

Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series; Partnership Kicks Off at St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix Fairfield, OH — March 11, 2026 — The International Hot Rod...

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This 2,500hp Street Rod Would Blow The Doors Off Of The Leno Merlin Powered Bentley – Urge Overkill Here!

This is a 2,500hp street rod or it is as least claimed to be a 2,500hp street rod by the guy looking to sell it for $200,000 on eBay. The car is a 1932 Ford sedan delivery body that is part tractor...

Cruise With Jay Leno In A 27-Liter Merlin Powered 1930 Bentley – This Thing Is Awesome

It would crack me up months ago reading stories about people asking what Jay Leno would do when he finally left the Tonight Show and handed the keys to Jimmy Fallon. They were writing about the guy...

Monday Shopper: 1922 Model T Pickup

As we mentioned with the last Monday Shopper, the point here is not to focus on the big dollar lots that make news everywhere else, but to suggest that if you show up for the early lots of any given...

Bing Crosby Built A Race Track In Del Mar, California And One Of America’s Greatest Racers Was Killed On It In 1949

In 1949 there was literally no more dangerous profession in the United States of America than “professional race car driver”. More than 1/3 of men who strapped into race cars as pros...

Barnstormin’: Hanging With The Fringe Element

It is kind of funny how after five years of writing this Barnstormin’ column my life has kind of turned into exactly that, especially during this time of the year. I recently had a three week...

Do You And Your Car Want To Be On TV? Now Is Your Chance! Ridetech Wants You!

We just found out that the upcoming USCA Race in Daytona, which is in two weeks, is going to be the location for some special segments and such revolving around the gang at Ridetech. While I am there...

Camaro 5 Fest Photos And A Little Editorial On Modern Muscle. Does It Exist?

(Text and Photos by Rodney Prouty)  We all say it, we all quote it, but is modern muscle, really muscle? Having a chance to travel to big-ole Texas and the Royal Purple Raceway, who played host to...

Close Call Video: Watch Things Get Weird On The Top End Of The Drag Strip At High Speed

I have certainly seen and called my fair share of top end weirdness on the drag strip but all of it has been witnessed from the comfy confines of the timing tower at whatever strip it was at. While...

Check Out Our Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show And Drag Photos From Irwindale California

If you missed the show this weekend at Irwindale, you missed a lot. Mooneyes knows how to put on a real shindig, and we couldn’t see a single person who wasn’t having a bitchin time. The...

This Criagslist Camaro Is Truly One For The Books – At Least It Has A Big Block In It?

There’s a place to begin with this 1977 Craigslist Camaro, I’m just not sure where it is. The thing has a very Mad Max vibe happening with the holes chopped in the hood and the lack of...

The BangShift C7 Corvette Dissection – Pulling Apart A Blown UP, Brand New Super Car For Fun And Profit

(Photos and captions by David Matyjasik) – We know him better as Dave Matty and so will you by the time this whole saga comes to a conclusion, but to say that this will be one of the neatest...

First Indianapolis Grand Prix Begins With Massive Wreckage – Starting Line Destruction (Video)

The IndyCar series was hoping to start a new tradition and build on their already strong legacy of racing in Indiana during the month of May but they did not bargain for the literal start that the...

Gallery: 52 Photos of AMCs!

The next collection in our series of “50 Photos” galleries will celebrate those great machines that rolled out of the factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The American Motors Company still has...

CL Find: This Beat Looking F-150 Has A Twin Turbo 351 And All The Makings Of The Best Sleeper In America

Normally we limit ourselves to one Craigslist Find per day but the tip we just got on this sleeper Ford pickup that is currently for sale on Craigslist was too good to sit on, we had to run it! This...