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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Feature: A Cummins Powered, Laid Out, Custom, 1957 Chevy 2-Ton Shop Truck

(Here’s another of our favorite features that we dug up from previous coverage of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. This truck is one of our all-time “wish list” trucks.)...

Watch Wild Helment Cam Video of a Russian Guy Crashing His Motorcycle on the Highway and Walking Away!

This is the Russian dash/helmet cam video that takes Russian dash/helment cam videos to the next level. It takes about 18-seconds, literally, for things to go from normal to nightmare for the...

Historic Motorcycle Jump Fail Caught on Film – Jumping John Holland’s Failed Leap Over 50 Chevettes

The 1970s were a time full of malaise, slow cars, and motorcycle jumps. For whatever reason, the decade gave way to more wackos on motorcycles than any other before or since. The best known of this...

Kar Feature – The Incredible Hulk – An Evil, 1964 Chrysler 300K That Runs 8s!

(Since we’ll be live broadcasting the 2014 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion next week we figured that we’d relive one of our favorite car features on this Saturday before the race....

Baja 500 Qualifying In Truck 100+ MPH Video From Galindo Motorsports, Plus Full Qualifying Results

This video is 6 minutes of off-road bliss. If this video doesn’t make you want to get behind the wheel of an off-road race truck and tear off across the desert for Baja 500 Qualifying, then you...

Craigslist Find: Super-cool, one-year-only 1969 Pontiac Custom S

There will doubtlessly be debate about whether a 1969 Pontiac A-body in brown is worth $18k, but set that aside for a moment and consider this car: The Custom S replaced the 1968 Pontiac Tempest...

Pinkees Rod Shop Open House Photos. This Is Just The Start Of A Weekend Of Coolness In Colorado.

I’m in Loveland Colorado this weekend to announce the autocross at the Goodguys Show. While I was here I figured I’d get some other cool stuff in, and last night we had an open house and...

FRIDAY BOOM: Watch a Wild Compilation of Huge Crashes From the 2011 ADRL Season

While the ADRL may be dead and buried in an unmarked tomb at the bottom of the sea, it is important to remember the legacy that it left wit respect to Pro Mods. The organization certainly kicked the...

Watch a Chevy Wagon Pull A Massive Wheelie At George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip

George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip is a destination spot for any hot rodder. It is literally the place where time stood still, where the term “insurance company” would garner you...

Watch a Violent European Tractor Pulling Wreck – The Sled is an Effective Battering Ram!

As we have showed many times in the past, stuff can go wrong in a hurry on the pulling course, especially when the machines are on the upper end of the power scale and the sled is weighed down like a...

2015 Corvette Z06 To Have 650hp, Most Powerful Car Ever Offered by General Motors – Stupid Fastness On The Way

Last night General Motors finally announced the horsepower number for the 2015 Corvette Z06 and it is a big one. The car will be rated at 650hp and perhaps more impressively, 650 lb-ft of torque....

The Parting Shift: Ride Along In Kenworth As The Driver Shifts Three Sticks Like A Ninja

For anyone out there who doesn’t believe that truck driving is an acquired skill, watch this video and have your opinion changed. This video shows the driver of a Kenworth W900L driving and...

More Sweet Cars From The Recent Pomona Swap Meet – Drivers, Draggers, and Resto Projects

Here’s another load of sweet cars from the May 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. The machines range from cars you could have driven out of the place to your home to the basic bones of a project that would...

Why The Hell Does This Car Exist? The Most Modified Prius Ever Is Still A Flipping Prius

(Words: Bryan McTaggart) – The Toyota Prius is the gearhead’s anthesis. It’s an over-rated doorstop of a car best suited to people who are just biding their time until Google’s wheeled...