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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Crazy Collision Between A Minivan And A Cement Truck Caught On Dashcam!

There aren’t many Youtube videos that make me visibly flinch, but trust me, this is one of them. Watching a fully-loaded cement truck roll over and barrel towards the camera has been known to...

Rat Rods, Street Machines, Hot Rods, And Woodie Wagons At Goodguys Del Mar

This hit parade of photos from the 2014 Goodguys Del Mar show continues today with a gallery containing some really interesting freak cars. Not all of them are freaks but there are two jumping out at...

Hamburger’s Releases NEW Two Piece Front Cover For LS Engines – Even Easier Cam Swaps For LS Owners

Of the many reasons that LS engines have invaded every corner of the hot rodding world, one of the biggest is that they are pretty easy to work on. No exotic tools are needed for jobs, the engine...

Spring 2014 Chattanooga Cruise In—More Than A Thousand Cars Take Over Corkyville

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – In case you didn’t know, a couple blocks of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee is known as Corkyville, because it’s the home of the Coker Tire Company...

2014 Spring Charlotte AutoFair – Huge Numbers Of The South’s Coolest Cars Gather In Charlotte

(Photos by Jesse Kiser) – Twice a year, the the Charlotte Motor Speedway is not filled with the rumbling noises of NASCAR stock cars but rather with the gleaming paint, shiny wheels, and...

Watch a $300,000 Gemballa McLaren Wreck At Extreme High Speed on the Nurburgring – In Car Video

Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of a Gemballa McLaren, we hadn’t either until we saw this wild wrek video that features one getting torn to pieces during the 24 Hours of the...

Lonestar Round Up 2014 – Swap Meet Treasures And More Great Hot Rods

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re still rolling hard with Charles Wickam’s photos from the 2014 Lonestar Round Up car show in Texas. Today’s dispatch looks at the swap meet...

Riding For Three Minutes On The Hood Of Robby Gordon’s Trophy Truck Is Screaming V8 Dirt Porn

The 2014 Mint 400 didn’t go as planned for Robby Gordon. He blew his truck up and that was that, but thankfully before the munched up transmission, there was this glorious three minute video...

2014 Mopar Spring Fling – The 40 Mopars We Wanted To Drive, Tow, Or Push Home!

(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The yearly gathering of Mopars at Woodley Park is a longtime tradition for gearheads and Mopar geeks from all over the northern hemisphere. The 2014...

Here’s What Happened When Some Rocket Geniuses Unleashed An Open Nitrous Bottle On A Cobalt SS

(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – The Chevy Cobalt is currently underneath some scrutiny lately, with dangerous ignition cylinders and all that. And apparently a group of racers have decided that...

2014 OPG Classic Car Show – Our Second Load Of Photos From The Great Event

Combine chamber of commerce weather with a couple hundred classic GM products, prize giveaways, and one of the most well known companies in the restoration parts business and what do you get? It is...

2014 Omaha Autorama – Our Last Collection Of Photos From The 59th Annual Show

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – For the last few days we have been taking you around the 2014 Omaha Autorama, a tradition that has been happening in the Omaha, Nebraska area for nearly 60 years....

Inside Lingenfelter Performance Engineering: We Tour The Hallowed Horsepower Haven In Indiana

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Craig Fitzgerald) – When I initially reached out to Mike Copeland at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering about making a banzai trip out to see the Decatur, Indiana...

Before Earl “Lucky” Teter, Joie Chitwood and Evel Knievel, B. Ward Beam invented the auto thrill show

The following advertisement appeared in the Amherst (N.Y.) Bee on August 6, 1931:  Wanted: Single man, not over 25 years, to drive automobile in head-on collision with another car at the Albion...