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Lonestar Round Up 2014 – More Great Photos From Top Notch Burgers

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more Lonestar Round Up photos from Charles Wickam. This time we’re looking at the second visit he and Scott Brown made to the Top Notch...

Robert Hight, Courtney Force, And Brittany Force Start Strong At NHRA 4-Wide Nationals

Team Force is at it again, as the NHRA rolls into Charlotte’s ZMax Dragway for the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals this weekend.  In Funny Car, Hight is currently sitting in the No. 2 spot, Courtney is...

Friday BOOM: A Blown Slick Tears a 1938 Chevy to Shreds

Thankfully, exploding drag slicks are a relative rarity at the strip. That’s a good thing because when they let go, major damage is a 100% guarantee. Take this nice 1938 Chevy for example. The...

The Parting Shift: The 12,000 RPM Nova Launching Hard

This week’s parting shift takes us out of the drivers’ compartment and places us straight up in the grand stands. That’s A-Ok as you’ll find out when you watch the video,...

A Camaro And A Monaro, Both Equipped With Big, Blown Engines, Perform Double Power Skid

Peter and Debbie Gray have just leapt onto our list of the “100 coolest people in Australia” for this awesome dueling power skid performance they laid down at the recent Autofest...

Snake And Mongoose Available On Demand, On DVD, and On Blu-Ray Now

Good news for those of you that are fans of drag racing history, the Snake and Mongoose movie has finally been released for download, on demand, DVD and Blu-Ray. The move follows the careers of Tom...

Jeep Shows Six Concepts That Will Appear At Moab Eastern Jeep Safari – Coolness Level Keeps Dropping

Let’s be really honest here, OK? The Jeep Moab concepts have pretty much all sucks lemons post 2012. Back in glorious 2012 we got the Mighty FC, the JC-12 truck, the Trail Dozer Jeep, and...

Larry Dixon To Drive Second Bob Vandergriff Racing Top Fuel Dragster At Nine Events This Season

There have been questions swirling around Bob Vandergriff Racing since JR Todd took the driving position at Kalitta Motorsports. We had heard through various channels that Vandergriff had received...

Holley Releases 2-BBL Ultra HP Carbs – Circle Track Racers Rejoice

When those of us that lean toward the drag racing persuasion think of Holley carbs, we’re naturally picturing Dominators and other fuel mixers capable of sucking the air out of a building in...

eBay Find: This Hemi Powered Willys Gasser May Be ‘Glass But We Don’t Care

We think we know “right” when we see it and this Willys is flipping RIGHT. Maybe it is weird to say but we think really good Willys coupes are few and far between in the world. While we...

2014 Lonestar Round Up – Justin Oney’s Adventure In Austin – Incriminating Photos And More

(Words and photos by Justin Oney) – This was a first for me; both the show and bringing a car along for the ride. We rose at 4:30am last Thursday morning to make the 600 mile trek from El...

Action Gallery: Painless Performance Outlaw Fuel Altereds And SHRA Racing From North Star Dragway

(WORDS AND PHOTOS BY BRAD KLAASSEN) – So, what do you do the first weekend in April if you live in the south? Well, if that state is Texas, you go drag racing. And that’s just what happened...

Pure Perfection: Mike Cavanah’s ’66 Chevelle Makes White The Sexiest Color Ever

Mike Cavanah’s 1966 Chevelle is NOT the norm. With quarter panels as sexy as that spot on a woman’s lower back,  just above their hip, you wouldn’t expect it to be this white. Red?...

The Russian GAZ-66 4×4 fills us with want. Watch this video and you’ll need one, too

I stumbled onto a cache of Russian 4×4 videos on YouTube, and now I’ve been killing many precious hours watching these rigs crawl through the mud to worksites in Northern Russia. A lot of...