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4th of July SALE! Visit Ridetech.com Between Now And July 7th for 10% Off Late Model Suspension During July 4th Weekend Sale!

That’s right gang, if you are looking for some real savings this 4th of July weekend, to celebrate 250 years of American pride, then now is your chance to save 10% off your late model...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage at Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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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...