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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 7 Regional From The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 7! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Drag Racing Video: PDRA East Coast Nationals Pro Boost And Pro Nitrous Qualifying Video.

We’ve got more PDRA Drag Racing video from the East Coast Nationals thanks to our friend NC Promoder. In the video below you’ll see PDRA Pro Boost and Pro Nitrous qualifying from Darana...

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New Junkyard Inventory! This Trade In Dodge Has Awesome Art Deco Styling And Would Make An Excellent Hot Rod!

I lived through the original Dare to be Different craze, when guys like Troy Trepanier brought out crazy builds that were based on body styles and models that nobody was normally paying attention to....

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 7 Regional From The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 7! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Drag Racing Photos: Our Final Gallery Of Photos From The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway!

Here’s the 4th, and final, gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check them out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: From Chassis to Rolling! 4 Link, Axles, Crossmembers & More!

Shannon and Jess are moving right along on the FJ40 and things just keep getting better. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might not...

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eBay Find: The Amazing Alden Calkins 1930 Model A Roadster – Unrestored Survivor From The Golden Age of Rodding!

There are certain cars that you see and for whatever reason your heart skips a little and you can do nothing more than just stare and admire. Such was the case when I found this incredible 1930 Model...

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Auto Club Fontana Drag Strip (Almost) Undead!

Great news from the world of Southern California drag racing today. It appears as though the currently dormant drag strip at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California will be reopening sooner rather...

COPO Camaro #3 Build: Behind The Scenes Of A Real Copo Camaro Build!

We want a new COPO Camaro so bad we can taste it, and although we have no delusions that we’ll be one of the first media to make a pass in one, we can say that we will be the quickest....

Jiffy-tite Fittings Video and Fitting Counting Contest. So Easy Even A BangShifter Can Do It!

We were cruising the Jiffy-tite Facebook page and saw two cool things we had to share. The first is a great video featuring the infamous Jon Dibartolomeo, from Drag Racing Action Magazine, talking...

Show Gallery: The 2012 Ring Reckers Hot Rod Club Car Show

(Photos by Jay Spinella) – The Ring Reckers Car Club of Amesbury, Massachusetts was formed in 1955 at the height of the burgeoning hot rod craze that was sweeping America. The club was around...

Drag Gallery: The 25th Annual Goodguys Pacific Northwest Nationals

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – For 25 years the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association has been holding their annual Pacific Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Washington state and this...

Video: Mark Stielow’s Red Devil 1969 Pro Touring Camaro Takes On a New ZL1 at Gingerman Raceway – Which One Wins?

Mark Stielow is one of the Pro Touring world’s true heroes. A GM engineer who was one of the earliest adapters of modern suspension technology into classic American iron, his ever more bad ass...

BangShifter Sean Fling Wins The Ridetech Race Entry Giveaway! Sandhills Here He Comes!

We are proud to announce that BangShifter Sean Fling, and his wife Tara, won the Ridetech Race Entry Giveaway for the Sandhills Open Road Challenge and will be kickin’ it BangShift style in...

Caption this Photo: Nightmare on the Strip!

As much as we like to look back on old school drag racing as a period where everything was grand and nothing was wrong, this photo helps to shine the light of reality on the era a little. We do not...

The Top 11: Worst Classic Car Name Revivals

(By Matt Cramer) – Few automakers can deliver a string of unbroken hits, but fewer still can retire a nameplate after one generation and resist the urge to dust off the names of some of their...

Drag Gallery: The Massive 2012 AMC Day at Mason-Dixon Dragway – AMC Hotness Abounds!

(Photos by John Button and Victor Santiago) – This is a well timed gallery because I have had AMCs on the brain lately. Having been at the strip announcing the last couple of weekend, I have...

“Broadway” Bob Metzler – Drag Racing Legend, Hall of Famer, and American Original – Dead at 83

Another giant in the world of drag racing has left this mortal coil. “Broadway” Bob Metzler the man who opened Great Lakes Dragaway in 1955 and built it into one of the most famed and...

Muscle Car and American Iron Junkyard Gallery: Fox Wrecker Service – Harrison, Michigan

(Photos by Chris Chenlo) – There’s something uniquely cool about the galleries we get from guys who have gone trolling through junkyards across America. Chris Chenlo was recently at Fox...

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Pro 2 Videos: Watch Round 7 Of The 2012 Season Sunday At 1pm EST On CBS

If you are like us, then trucks driving fast on dirt, sometimes on 4 wheels, usually on at least two, flying through the air, landing on top of each other, and sometimes flipping over, is really...