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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! 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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2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

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From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

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This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

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Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

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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...

Video: Frankie Taylor Goes 3.48/216 At Rockingham – Traction Control On Board – Good or Bad?

Of all the huge runs made at the first ever PDRA race at Rockingham Dragway last weekend, the one that the internet has really been freaking out about is Frankie “The Mad Man”...

Goodguys Del Mar 2014 – Our Torrent Of Photos Coverage Continues

Like the Lonestar Round up, we went nuts with the camera at the 2014 Goodguys Del Mar show last weekend and for good reason. The quality of the cars and the different styles of builds we saw kept us...

Cool Motorhome – Nutty Price – Would You Pay $75,000 For This 1973 Roxor?

If you are looking for one of the neatest and more rare examples of a 4×4 motorhome from the 1970s, we’ve got it right here in front you. In addition, this one also appeared on TV as part...

2014 Lonestar Round Up – Our Wall To Wall Coverage Continues

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Hey, we warned you that Charles Wickam was shooting photos like a Japanese tourist during the near week long sojourn he took to the 2014 Lonestar Round up hot rod...

All The Smart Cars Shall Be Tipped – God Help Those That Own These Things

On Sunday night, a few Smart cars were flipped over, set on end, or otherwise vandalized on the means streets of San Francisco, not that big a deal right? Wrong. The incident spread like gasoline...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Why The Feng Shui Of A Parts Store Is Enough To Make A Man Drink…Heavily

It doesn’t matter which one of the parts stores you walk into, because they are all the same: Sorted, in a selected pattern that is meant to catch those buying trinkets and air fresheners early and...

We Raided The 2014 OPG Annual Classic Car Show And Found Classic GM Heaven – Photos Galore

For more than 30 years, OPG has been a big part of saving thousands of classic GM cars from certain doom in junkyards or at the unrelenting hands of the crusher. With a product line that spreads...

The 2015 Corvette Will Be Available With An 8-Speed Auto – First Time Auto Trumps Manual In Gears

Automatic transmissions in Corvettes are not a new thing. Since the dawn of the Corvette, they’ve had automatics available for customers who’d prefer that the car shift itself, but this...

Apex Quiz: Has Anyone Participated In The New SCCA Classic American Muscle Autocross Class?

We were one of the first venues to report on the creation and ultimate addition of the Classic American Muscle class to the SCCA (Sports Car Club Of America) autocross program so consider this...