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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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Video: The Hover-Barrow Was A Neat And BangShifty Solution To Job Site Drudgery – Cool Idea!

Human beings have been seeking ways to make life easier since the dawn of our existence. From coming up with ideas like the wheel, yogurt in a tube, electricity, and nuclear weapons, we’ve been...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Is The Coolest TV Car Guy Currently On The Air?

We in another period where automotive themed TV shows are all over the place and from what we have heard and seen, even more of them are slated to be coming out in the months ahead. Obviously these...

On Tonight’s Back Road Gold, Corky Finds A Sea Of Cars, Including A ’59 T-Bird And Fire Truck!

It’s episode three of Backroad Gold, with Corky Coker, and this week his adventures take him to a field of cars that is so big you can’t see them all at once. The show airs at 6:30pm and...

Awesome Drag Video: Watch Grumpy Jenkins Live Up To His Nickname In A 1975 TV Interview – This Rules All

Away from the race track Bill Jenkins was an affable man with lots of friends and stories. At the track, he was as serious as a heart attack, not all that friendly a dude, and an intense competitor....

RacingJunk Find: An 800hp NASCAR Powered Former Trans Am Mustang Road Racing Destroyer

We know that there are far more sensible ways to go road racing. Lighter cars with smaller engines, go karts, Formula Vee racers, and all of that stuff but let’s be honest here. This is...

The Dynasphere Is A Fun British Creation From The 1930s That We Want To Drive! (Video)

People have been designing and building so-called “mono wheel” vehicles for a long time, like over 80 years now as is proven by the video below. We’re sure that the existed on paper...

MSD Named Official Ignition Of USMTS and USRA Racing Series

(Photo credit: USMTS.com) – We got word from the crew at MSD yesterday that two dirt racing series had names MSD ignition products their official ignitions and we thought that was pretty neat....

Gallery: Darryl Starbird’s 50th Annual Rod And Custom Car Show – Tulsa, Oklahoma

(Words and photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – It’s still winter in the Heartland, so what’s a race starved gearhead to do? Car shows always help a weekend go by, right? Well, for...

This Stop Motion Car Chase Is Better Than The Last Fast And Furious Movie

Man, do I love car chases. Unfortunately, due to these crazy things we have called “laws” and “prisons with large inmates”, odds are it’s not in my best interest to re-enact some of my...

Super Sleuth Time! Help Joel Rosen Identify this Motion Corvette from an Early 1970s AC Plugs Ad

Legendary PR Guy and Cars Magazine editor Marty Schorr is looking for some help. He and Joel Rosen have been trying to determine the identity of the Motion Corvette that appeared in this print ad...

This 1950 Buick Is Large, In Charge, And Driven All Over The Place (Video)

Here’s another great short film from our pals at Holley that highlights a neat car that they found during the 2013 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green,...

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This Incredible Ed Hinton Piece Explains Why NASCAR Fans Complaining About Austin Dillon In The #3 Are Very, Very Wrong

I try to read every single word that Ed Hinton writes because he’s the last bastion of the old school racing reporter left in the USA. This guy has been following NASCAR and open wheel racing...

More Dirt Slinging, Mud Sloggin’ Action From Dirty Gras 2014 – Huge Trucks In The Muck!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we showed you the first of two galleries from an event known as Dirty Gras which was held on the 700 acre grounds of Down South Off Road Park in Crosby,...

Chrysler Unobtanium: A Real Late 1960s Weslake-Plymouth Indy Engine

The words Chrysler and rare are often found together but the reality is that a 1969-era Plymouth-Gurney Indy car engine is among the most limited edition Mopar engines ever. Outside of a freaking...