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The Fastest Cars In The Country versus The SKETCHIEST Drag Strip Means It Must Be War in the Woods at Brown County!

We’ve shared War in the Woods coverage for years, but over the past couple of years the racing at Brown County has gotten more and more famous and sketchier than ever. With some of the quickest...

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She’s Fast! Finnegan Put Nitrous On His 711ci Hemi Powered Jet Boat! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

While Mike Finnegan has gotten famous over the past few years for his turbocharged Jet Boats, the truth is that Mike’s history in jet boat racing revolves around nitrous combos. His first...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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Planet Barrett Jackson: Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel Is Blogging Daily From The Auction!

When Ridetech announced that they were going to be selling Sharon Voelkel’s bitchin 1971 GTO Convertible, and the famed “Grouchy” 1933 Ford, at the 2014 Barrett Jackson Auction in...

The Last Of Our Photos From The Uraidla South Australia Car Show And Cruise

For the last two days we’ve been showing you photos from the Uraidla South Australia Car Show and Cruise, and today is the final batch. Darryl Daniels shot more than 300 photos, and if you have...

Watch The Champion Speed Shop Dragster Make The Quickest Small Block Chevy Quarter Mile Pass In History

One of the cool things that happened during the California Hot Rod Reunion was the Champion Speed Shop’s top fuel victory. It was cool for the history involved with driver Adam Sorokin, it was...

Watch An Early Mustang Convertible Dominate A British Production Stock Car Race In 1975 – Completely Hilarious

We’ve gotten this link sent to us a bunch of times and we finally have some space to jam the video up today and you are going to love it. Filmed in England back in 1975, the race is basically a...

More Cool Aussie Hot Rods At The Uraidla South Australia Hot Rod Show And Cruise

Yesterday we put up a bunch of cool photos from the Uraidla South Australia show that Darryl Daniels shot for us, and today we’ve got even more! Despite a bit of rain, the Aussies were out in...

Incredible: Two Russian Guys, Crash A Guardrail And Land In A River – Neither Really Care

This is literally the Russian dash cam video to end all Russian dash cam videos. It shows a car moving down a country road at a pretty good clip. The driver and passenger are speaking to each other...

BangShifter Ron Ward Picks The Coolest Cars of His Birth Year….1964!

(Words by Ron Ward, photos by interwebs) – I was fortunate enough to have been born in 1964. The Beatles were hot, skirts were getting shorter, cars were getting faster and it was a great time...

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Ford’s 1962 Mustang I Concept Car May Be The Coolest Thing At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show

Of all the neat stuff to gawk at inside Cobo Hall at the 2014 North American International Auto Show, Ford gets the nod from us for having the coolest vehicle…and it was built in 1962. This is...

This Video Of A 3,000hp Pro Mod Motor Making A Dyno Pull Is AWESOME

Danny Rowe Racing posted a video to their Facebook page yesterday showing Jimmy Rector, the team’s crew chief and long time builder of insanely powerful alcohol motors pulling one of the...

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Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac, At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show – A Photo Collection

While the Corvette and F-150 were grabbing all of the Monday headlines at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, there are other interesting bits of news as well. The 2015 GMC Canyon is one of them and we have...

Lucky’s Rod Run to the Chicken Oil Company 2014 – A Texas Sized Rod Run!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – It is funny how things happen some time. Almost 20 years ago William Lucky of Conroe, Texas happened upon a great restaurant called The Chicken Oil...

It’s Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Week! AFCO Is There Supporting Racers – MavTV Is There Getting Ready To Broadcast It Live!

There’s nothing like the famed “Chili Bowl”. For nearly 30 years, racers from all over the county have been gathering in Oklahoma in the dead of winter to race for days on end,...

Footage From The 1972 Super Stock Nationals – Nitro, Pro Stock, Super Stock, More!

While we’ve never run into a video featuring old drag racing footage we’ve disliked, some are certainly head and shoulders above the rest. This one is about 16 feet above the rest and it...

Craigslist Find: This Steel Bodied Fiat Is Exactly As It was Built And Raced In 1959 – Amazing Old Drag Machine

We have to thank Johnny Gaudette for the tip on this amazing old Fiat Topolino drag car that he found while goofing off in study hall or something yesterday. The steel bodied cars was built in 1959...