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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Here Are The Contenders For The 2014 America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Trophy

It was more than 30 years ago that I went to my first Grand National Roadster Show, back when it was home in Oakland California, and the electricity and excitement I felt as a young kid is still...

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The 2014 Grand National Roadster Show: Click HERE For All Of Our Photos And Coverage

The 2014 Grand National Roadtser Show is in full swing at the Pomona Fairplex in California. This show is one of the most historic and prestigious hot rod gatherings in the world. By the end of the...

Ride On The Roof Of A Cool Blown MG GT – 9.60 Run A Santa Pod – Through The Hood Zoomies!

The math has been the same since the beginning of the automotive industry in the early 1900s. Take a big motor, jam it into a little car and get the hell out of the way. English hot rodder Perry...

The Most Epic Roadkill Yet! The Boys Fight The Elements, Swap A Motor, Cruise 2,400 Miles Home!

In my eyes, this is the new episode where all other Roadkills will be measured by. This one combines so many killer elements from the hellacious trip just to get to where the thing is supposed to...

Watch The 2014 U.S. Street Nationals LIVE Right Here!

The 2014 U.S. Street Nationals are on and LIVE right now for you to watch FREE. All the great door car drag racing you can stand, all weekend long, right here. Be one of the cool kids, and grab a...

SEE A SEVEN FOOT TALL CHEVY PLANT WORKER INSPECT ROOFS IN 1936

Call us names if you want, but this video made us smile. It is part of a newsreel of some other promotional film from Chevrolet in the mid-1930s. The video shows employee James Scott, who stands at a...

Have You Ever Heard A Song About Bracket Racing? Us Either, But This Rap Tune Is Cool.

“Knock the tree down, carry the thing with me. Can’t win if you’re no better than fifty.” is just one of the cool lyrics that you’ll here in the Rap titled Be Double O,...

What To Do When Your Hippy Wife Owns A Prius. A Hot Rodders Guide To Justifying Owning One

This video cracked us up, and then got us scratching our heads and thinking. I’ve often said that I wished every non hot rodding idiot on the road would drive a Prius so that I can burn as much...

Brighton Speed Trials Saved For 2014! Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat For English Gearheads (Petrolheads, as they’d say)

We are happy to report that one of the world’s longest running automotive events has been saved from death by politician. The Brighton Speed Trials which started at the dawn of the automotive...

Racing Videos: Grassroots Ice Racing Helps Cure The Winter Blues

Even though the polar vortex is seemingly done raising a middle finger to the majority of the United States, Winter is still in full swing and the bitter cold lingers across much of the northern part...

Craigslist Find: Chevy Gold! LS6 and LS7 454s Still In Their Original Crates!

Well if this doesn’t blow the mind of every Chevy fan in the house we’re not sure what will. This seller in Lexington, Kentucky has a pair of the most hairy factory big blocks Chevrolet...

Gallery: Veluzat Military Vehicle Rentals – The Coolest Place In The Known Universe

I have been galavanting around the country for the last week and a half from drag races in Florida to a big media conference in California. In between those two things, I had a couple of days to...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The 1932 Helicron

We know what you’re thinking. No, this is not a motorized Bologna slicer. It’s a French creation, and it was an epic fail (like that’s a surprise). As it turns out the French...

Question of the Day: What is the First Car You Remember Riding Around in as a Kid?

This question came up as I was tooling around with my son Jack last week. I was wondering what his four year old brain is holding onto as far as information about the family cars he’s occupied...