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OG SMALL TIRE RACING IN THE MOUNTAINS!!!! KILLER STREET AT ELK CREEK DRAGWAY JUNE 2026!!!!

Oooh yeah! Elk Creek Dragway is something special, and with racing like this we understand why. In this video you’ll see Killer Street 275/28 and more as the 5.30 and 6.30 index classes take...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Full Race | Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from WWT Raceway

Just a couple of weekss after the famed Indy 500, the IndyCar Series was back at it for another weekend of racing. This time it was at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 World Wide Technology Raceway...

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Finnegan’s 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Drag Car Build Is Getting Closer! Interior At Home. Check It Out.

I talked to Mike the other day and he said that they are seriously working on the Cadillac to get it on the road this year. Sure, there is a lot to do, but they keep chipping away at it and in the...

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They CLOSED a Public Road for a Street Race and Heavy Hitters Came Out! Cash Days Street Racing Greatness!

We’ve livestreamed a few city sanctioned street race events over the years, and have heard of a few others, but it never gets old to hear that folks want to see Cash Days street races to go...

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New Right-Angle Impact Totally Resets the Scoreboard! These Aren’t Supposed To Be This Good!

Right angle impacts have really made a splash recently, and if you are like me and think they are just an over hyped cordless ratchet, you’d be wrong. Yes, I said it, I was wrong. I love me...

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Video: Gentle Giants – Big Horsepower Tractors Of The 1970s From Minneapolis-Moline and Oliver

While passenger cars and trucks were being stripped of their manhood by government regulations in the early 1970s, farmers across America were transitioning into an era where horsepower was king....

Video: These 1970s Evel Knievel Drag Racing Toy Commercials Are Great – Did You Have Them?

While Evel Knievel never raced at a drag strip in a funny car or a dragster, he performed at many of them across the country jumping motorcycles. The guy made a few bucks every time his too-heavy...

Vice Grip Garage’s Chopped Top 1935 Ford Truck is Back, But It Is Time To BUILD IT BETTER This Time!

Who doesn’t love a chopped 1935 Ford pickup truck? Well whoever owns it when it doesn’t run or drive well enough to be fun, that’s who. And in this case it’s Derek from Vice...

Finnegan’s New Mystery Drag and Drive Project Car Needs Major Surgery Already! What Has He Done?

In typical Finnegan style, something in the new race car is just not going to work and requires some surgery. But it’s fine. I mean it will all be fine, right? This project is something...

Alex Taylor, And The Rest Of The Taylor Clan, Are On Sick Summer. But What Mistakes Did They Make Before Even Starting?! Day 0

We shared 1320Video’s first video from Sick Summer as well, and Alex Taylor and the crew are also on the trip. They are sharing their own videos from each day of the event and this is the first...

1320Video Is Back With A New Drag And Drive To Cover: 300 Racers, 5 Day of Racing, at 4 Tracks= Sick Summer

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video. It’s the shortest Drag and...

Featured Products: Summer Is Heating Up, Now Is The Time To Upgrade Your Cooling System With Frostbite Radiators, Fans, And More.

There is nothing more annoying that taking your hot rod out during the warm summer months and having it run hot. Whether it actually overheats, or just runs hotter than you are comfortable with,...

Iron Trap Garage Is Chopping The Windshield On Mike’s 1934 Ford Cabriolet, And It Looks So Rad! He Is Thrilled!

Chopping a top, regardless of the car or truck, takes some real work. And the bigger and rounder the roof, the tougher it is to chop and make look right. That means that if all you have to do is chop...

The Recalls Of 1968 Show That Not A Whole Bunch Has Changed In About 50 Years Of Auto Industry History

I have what I like to believe is a bunch of cool old stuff at my house. My wife likes to believe that this “cool old stuff” is actually “smelly junk”. She is of course wrong...

The Big Test: This 1980s Film Touts GMs Testing Procedures Of The Day – Did No One Tell Them That The Cars Sucked?

The video you are about to watch was made by General Motors in the early 1980s to show the world just how serious they were about testing their products before they went to market. It shows off the...

Weird and Wonderful: This Video Looks At 7 Of The craziest Ferrari Concept Cars Of All Time

As much as it pains us to admit it, cars are largely the same on their face. For wheels, some doors, engine, seats, it’s like checking off a bunch of basic boxes. Now, the magic happens when we...

Old School Noise: This 1970s NHRA Points Meet Footage From Houston Is Amazing

It seems wild to think about the fact that back in the day nitro funny car and top fuel competitors spent a lot of time running NHRA points meets while chasing national championships. It was a large...

The Last Of Our NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, And Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

SCHUMACHER, PROCK, J. COUGHLIN & HERRERA ROAR TO WINS AT SUPER GRIP NHRA THUNDER VALLEY NATIONALS

BRISTOL, Tenn. (June 9, 2024) – Eight-time Top Fuel world champion Tony Schumacher picked up his first win in 37 races on Sunday at Bristol Dragway, defeating reigning world champ Doug Kalitta in...