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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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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...

Funny Video: Check Out This Wanton VW “Stress Testing”

In regards to vehicles, have you ever owned a “beater”? I’m not talking about a vehicle that’s a little long in the tooth that you neglect performing regular maintenance on...