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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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NHRA REVEALS FUTURE BUILDING PLANS FOR LUCAS OIL INDIANAPOLIS RACEWAY PARK – CHECK OUT THE IMPROVEMENTS!

Multi-phase plan to include new Wally Parks Tower, renovated suites, new entrance and shifting of pit areas INDIANAPOLIS (July 3, 2024) – The NHRA announced its future building plans at Lucas Oil...

Is Cheap Engine Oil Just As Good As The Expensive Stuff? Does Your Diesel Actually Need The Good Stuff! Or Is Expensive Not Actually Better?

It seems like there are two kinds of vehicle owners. The first is the type that doesn’t much care what kind of oil goes in their engine as long as it is slippery. The second is the type that...

More National Tractor Pullers Association Tractor Pull Action Photos From The Mule City 300 At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) The National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA) opened their Grand National 2024 pulling season on the first weekend in June with a trip to Benson, NC to the...

War in the Woods Video- WRECKS, Close Calls & SKETCHY TRACK! To Call This Place Rough Would Be An Understatement

War in the Woods is an event that has grown to epic proportions in the last few years, but not just because it brings awesome racers and cars. It’s also one of the sketchiest joints...

The Big Money Shootout At Rocky Mountain Race Week Means Epic Racing On Day 5! Check It Out Here

Rocky Mountain Race Week is a bit different when compared to other Drag and Drive events, because unlike other events who crown winners only based on the average over five days, they crown averages...

Finnegan’s Twin-Turbo Cadillac Project Is Back! It’s Time For Some Headers And Turbo Plumbing!

Finnegan is back at it with the Caddy project and we’re glad to see it coming together. He’s got more fabrication to do before the mockup engine can get replaced by the real engine, but...

Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Bed Is Getting Designed!

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the bed start getting...

National Tractor Pullers Association Tractor Pull Action Photos From The Mule City 300 At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) The National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA) opened their Grand National 2024 pulling season on the first weekend in June with a trip to Benson, NC to the...

Does Iron Trap Garage’s Fresh Blown Ardun OHV Flathead Fit In Their 1933 3-Window Coupe?

A couple of weeks ago we shared a video from the guys at Iron Trap Garage that featured a bad ass Blown Ardun headed flathead Ford that is truly something rare and special. If you missed the previous...

Olds Gutless Supreme: This Review Of The 1988 Cutlass Shows A Good Car With One Massive Flaw

While the Oldsmobiles of the late 1980s and into the 1990s made awesome looking drag cars (and still do!) they didn’t exactly come out of the gate flying in 1988, especially the Cutlass. Sales...

Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!

Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...

Mind Blown: There Were Helicopter Airlines In The 1960s And They Were Going To Be The Future (They Weren’t)

This is the type of stuff we truly love to find. When you run into something that happened or some weird trend that was being pushed as the future which died out and you never knew it existed, the...

Lap Le Mans In A Porsche 936 Circa 1977 – Watch This 200+ Mph Monster Swallow Carreras Like Skittles

One of my top “must do” motorsport items is to attend the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race is unequivocally historic, it is fast as hell, it is one of the great traditions in racing and it...

Who Makes The Best Compact Impact Gun? Because Most Stuff On Your Ride Doesn’t Need A 1000 LbFt Impact To Remove Or Install It!

I know that a lot of “normal” people will buy a compact impact driver to drive screws and do DIY stuff at home, but they also have a place in your toolbox for working on cars. With the...