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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Laris Motorsports Insurance $75K Big Money Bracket Racing Livestream! Saturday $75k!

It’s time for more LIVE drag racing, and this time it is from the big money bracket races at Darana Raceway National Trail in Hebron Ohio as they Laris Motorsports Insurance $75,000 To Win race...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: War in the Woods at Brown County Dragway – NO PREP DRAG RACING GREATNESS – Friday

If you don’t know Brown County, and the War in the Woods races, then you don’t follow No Prep because this is one of the most famous races and tracks in the No Prep drag racing world. Thanks to...

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Free Livestream: Check Out Qualifying From The Shakedown At US131 As The Mid West Drag Racing Series And Radial Outlaws Prepare For The Weekend!

US 131 has been open for testing the past few days as both the Mid West Drag Racing Series and Radial Outlaws Racing Series prepare to take over the famed US 131 Motorsports Park. I’ve raced...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! 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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Pavement Pounder Events Motor City To Wheel Hub LIVE Event Did Not Disappoint! Our Photo Coverage Starts Right Now!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) We came out to hang with Cole Quinnell and his event Pavement Pounder’s Motor City to Wheel Hub Live about one minute after we got our ’65 Impala SS...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Final Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos From Charlotte!

Here’s our final nitro gallery from the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. If you missed our previous photos, use the link below to check out all our Four Wide photos. (Photos by David...

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This Vintage Drag Racing Video From Virginia Circa 1964 Has Cool Haulers, Cool Cars, And Great Action – Hubert Platt, Pee Wee Wallace, More!

We’re in a nostalgia drag racing kind of mood this week as we’ll be heading to Bowling Green, Kentucky in the morning to bring you the live streaming action from the 2014 Holley NHRA...

Hot Rod Power Tour 2014: Day 2 Coverage From Knoxville, Tennessee – A Collection Of The Coolest Stuff

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – The Hot Rod Power Tour is in full swing, and stopped at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tennessee yesterday. The place was packed, and Tommy Lee Byrd shot...

eBay Find: This 1947 Dodge Power Wagon Wrecker Is The Height Of Vehicular Perfection

My love for Power Wagons is only superseded by my love of tow trucks so when I found this 1947 Dodge Power Wagon wrecker for sale on eBay I naturally broke down in tears at the sheer perfection of...

More Great Coverage From The 2014 Hunnert Car Heads Up – Nostalgia Drag Racing Perfection

(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Yesterday we dropped the first of a few galleries that we’ll have from the 2014 Hunnert Cars Heads Up nostalgia drag race. This event has been...

Our Last Batch Of Cool Cars For Sale At The June Pomona Swap Meet – Supremely Cool To Sublime, They Are Here!

Yesterday we came to the end of the cool truck photos that we had taken at the June 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. Today we reach the end of the line with the cool car photos that we took at the same meet....

GM got mileage around the world from its “Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet” ad

Back in 1974 Chevrolet launched the “Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet” campaign, and those ads have been recognized by none other than Car and Driver as the best automobile...

Burned Up Motor Leaves Garlits Short Of 200 On Second Round Of Testing In Swamp Rat 37 Electric Dragster At Bradenton

It wasn’t easy 50 years ago and it isn’t easy now. Don Garlits and the entire operation behind the SR-37 Quest dragster hit a snag in testing yesterday when one of the electric motors...

Barnstormin’: The Triumph Of Showing Up

(Motorcycle photo by Tanya Timberman) – If there were ever truer words spoken than, “90% of success is just showing up,” I have never heard them. Ask anyone who has ever done...

2014 Hunnert Car Heads Up Coverage: Raw, Fun, Cool Drag Racing The Way It Used To Be – Big Fun!

(Words by Greg Rourke – Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – The Chrome Czars were back at historic Great Lakes Dragaway last weekend for the fifth annual Hunnert Car Heads Up. This...

Nut Driver: 4 AM Repairs And Autocross Action!

(Photos by Phil Trzcinski and the author) [“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s attempts to daily drive his 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in Massachusetts 365 days a year] Before...

Out On Power Tour? Go See Matt Graves And The American Powertrain Boys In Their “C-Heap C10” – It Rules

Let’s consider this a sneak peek because in the coming weeks we’re going to be giving you the blow by blow build story of the truck that the American Powertrain boys are our cruising this...

Here’s Our Final Pomona Swap Meet Truck Coverage – This Includes One Of The Coolest Car Haulers We Have Ever Seen

We’re finally to the end of our coverage of the great trucks that were on display and for sale at the June 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. In this group of photos we take you to all ends of the spectrum...

Eastern Outlaw Pro Mods And Other Crazy Stuff From The Bristol NOPI Event

(Words and Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – I had never been to a NOPI event so when they joined with EOPM for the Bristol, TN event at the famed “Thunder Valley” strip, it was a no...

Watch The Wild Doorslammer Wreck At The 2014 Fuchs Winternationals That May Have Ended Ben Bray’s Career

Thirty year old Ben Bray is second generation drag racing royalty in Australia. His dad, Victor Bray is their country’s John Force. The guy is known in all corners and his career arc is much...