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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Retro Galleries: BangShift 2012 PRO Winter Warm Up Still Photo Galleries From Last Year

Here are the galleries we ran last year from PBIR at the 2012 PRO Winter Warm Up. We’ll be posting content later today from this year’s running of the event but we wanted to whet your...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Drag City – Jan and Dean (1963)

Jan and Dean were on top of the world in the early 1960s. Their tunes like Surf City, this song Drag City, The Little Old Lady From Pasadena, and Dead Man’s Curve all lived at the top (or...

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Hits TV Gold. More Than 100 Hours Of Coverage On TV For 2013

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing is awesome. I mean Bill E Badass. We went to a race at Glen Helen earlier this year and it ruled all. Now I can’t stop watching it on TV. It’s just like playing...

Event Coverage: All Volkswagen Gallery From The Pomona Swap Meet. Bajas, Bugs, And Vans Oh My

This past weekend’s Pomona Swap Meet was big. And since we couldn’t possibly hit all of it in the time we had, we decided we would go for three galleries and grab hot rods, trucks, and...

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Video: Watch A Small Tire Mustang Drag Car Pull A Massive Power Wheelie At Carolina Dragway – The House Of Hook Really IS!

If wild stuff is happening on a drag strip, Nitro Art will probably be there to film it. The guys were on the scene recently at the famed Carolina Dragway to take in some action and were rewarded...

Question of the Day: What Historic Drag Car Would You Most Like To See Back On The Track Again?

(Photo credit: NHRA.com) – After showing you Bruce Larson’s killer new nostalgia funny car, we’re now interested in hearing what old school drag car you’d like to see back on...

Sneak Peek Gallery: Bruce Larson’s New Camaro Nostalgia Flopper And A Tour Of WORM Inc!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Grippo was a busy boy last weekend! You already saw his gallery from the Posies Rods and Customs open house and now we’re dropping more great photos on...

Gallery: The Posies Hot Rods and Customs Winter Get Together/Open House 2013

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Every winter Ken Fenical of Posies Hot Rods and Customs throws open the doors to his shop and the gate to his parking lot of a winter time get together, hot rod show,...

BS Daily Tune Up: Alvin Lee and Ten Years After – I’m Going Home (Woodstock 1969)

Forgive a bit of self-indulgence in today’s Daily Tune Up selection but I had to include one of my favorite songs at some point, right?! This is Alvin Lee and Ten Years After shredding out...

Larry Dixon and Lee Beard Are Back In NHRA For 2013 – Rapisarda Autosport International Hires The Two Legends For Multi-Continental Campaign

NHRA.com is reporting that two of the greats in modern drag racing history will be paired up in 2013 racing under the banner of the Australian-based Rapisarda Autosport International team. Lee Beard...

Event Coverage: Trucks, Buggies, Boats, and More From The January Pomona Swap Meet

Yesterday you got to see a sample of the muscle cars, cruisers, low riders, and wagons that you’ll find at a typical Pomona Swap Meet, but today it’s going to be trucks, off road buggies,...

Gallery: 50 Photos of Slingshot Dragsters

The first age of the front engine dragster was a long one. Until Big Daddy Don Garlits got the whole rear engine situation sorted out, the front engine “slingshot” dragster was the hot...

Video: The Most Insane Thing You’ll See All Day — Para-Sledding Or, How To Potentially Die From High Altitude On A Snow Machine

We have to thank BS tipster Toni Scholz for the lead on this video featuring a guy named Eric Oddy who has seemingly created a new adventure sport called para-sledding. The concept seems fairly...

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eBay Find: A Pro Touring 1966 El Camino That We Want Bad! (And That We’d NEVER Paint)

As we pay more and more attention to the Pro Touring scene we’re recognizing that for every mega-buxo, ocean trench deep pockets build there are 10 home built cars on reasonable budgets being...

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