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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Killer Baja Video: Ford Takes A New F-150, With Ecoboost Power, And Races It At The Baja 1000.

We’ve said it many times. The Baja 1000, like Bonneville, is an iconic event that is biblical in many ways. The locals are totally different, and the surroundings nothing alike. But the people,...

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...