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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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Cruise Gallery: An Evening At The Sonic Cruise – Morgantown, PA

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – This time of the year pretty much rules when it comes to cruise nights and shows. Gone are the sweltering days of the mid summer and here is the cool air that lets the...

Hilarious Video: Watch A Heavily Modified Mobility Scooter Hit 70mph At Santa Pod

If we have proven anything over the last couple days, it is that the English have a hammerlock on weird when it comes to the drags. Weird not being used in a bad way, but as a term of endearment. If...

Drag Gallery: Stock and Super Stock Action From the NHRA Divisional Race At Englishtown

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – A couple weeks back our man Joe Grippo was at the NHRA Division One points meet held at the historic Englishtown Raceway Park in New Jersey. Like always, Joe had his...

MSD Summer Cool Down Rebate Program is ON! Get Cash Back From Your MSD Purchases!

The dudes and dudettes at MSD have fired up their rebate program again as they have done over the last couple of years. If you’ve purchased MSD products in the the time frame between August 1...

Video: Watch A Diesel Pulling Tractor Suffer A Nuclear Level Engine Failure

In the realm of ragged edge, envelope pushing diesel engines no one works then harder or destroys them better than the guys who run high powered pulling tractors. The boost levels are dizzying and...

World’s Largest Parade of Classic Tractors Record Broken At Nebraska State Fair – Almost 1,000 Tractors in Parade!

(Photo by RFD-TV) – Take that Germany! The Guinness Record for the world’s longest parade of classic tractors was wrested back to the USA last weekend at the Nebraska State Fair....

Video: Watch Bigfoot Reset the World’s Record For A Monster Truck Jump At 214ft! In Truck and Out!

Laugh at monster trucks all you want but they are some of today’s more incredible competition vehicles. The evidence to back that up is below in video form courtesy of Bigfoot 4×4, the...

eBay Find: A Home Built, Mid- Engine 1966 El Camino – Weird but Oddly Appealing

There are varying types of weirdo projects to be found on eBay. There are the junk piles that are both weird and crappily constructed, the well built but totally misguided abominations, and then the...

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Video: Chad Interviews Speedy Bill Smith and a Host of Others at the Museum of American Speed

Yesterday we took you on a photo tour of the coolest gearhead museum in America, the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed founded by the legendary, “Speedy Bill” Smith. Today,...

Gallery: The Amazing Chevrolet Collection of Dennis Albaugh – We Take You Inside!

(Photos by Chad) – Dennis Albaugh has one of the finest collections of Chevrolet cars in the world and Chad was able to take a tour of it recently as part of the Goodguys Rodfather Tour he is...

Gallery: Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed – A Place Dripping With Pure Awesome

We’ve been following along with Chad’s exploits on the Goodguys Rodfather Tour all week and the fun continues today with this fantastic gallery from “Speedy” Bill...

International Incident: Hot Rod Magazine Pokes Andy Frost – Frost Pokes Back – Hot Rod Offers to Get Frost to Drag Week?

Simmering tensions boiled over yesterday on Hot Rod Magazine’s Facebook page when a few needling barbs aimed at English drag racer Andy Frost, drew Frost into the conversation about Larry...

Video: Watch A Clean Little Canadian Nova Carry A Massive Wheelstand Out Like A Boss!

Yesterday we showed you a big old Plymouth carrying the front end like none other at a drag strip in Dakota. Today it is a Nova performing the same act but this time it happens in Manitoba, Canada....

Road Trip Gallery: The Goodguys Rodfather Tour Day Three – Cool Hot Rods On the Road

As the Goodguys Rodfather road trip heads across the country, Chad is continuing to send us dispatches from the road in both photo and video form. This is a gallery from one of the stops on the tour...