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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Friday $50,000 Big Money Race #1

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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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Eliminations & Pro Mod And Top Fuel Qualifying From Darana National Trail 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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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Friday, Plus A $5,000 16 Car Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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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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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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Event Gallery: The 2012 Camaro5 Fest – Mustangs Need Not Apply!

(Words and Photos by Jeff Lee) – For those who might not know, the Camaro 5 Fest is the annual get together of 5th generation camaro owners and fans from the uber popular website...

Watch a Turbocharger Violently Explode During a Dyno Pull – Flying Sharpnel! Duck and Cover!

With more and more turbochargers being bolted onto drag cars, street machines, hot rods, trucks, and in this case, old school import cars, there are going to be more and more videos like this hitting...

Video: The Story of a Bitchin’ 1959 Beetle That’s 100% BS Approved – Stance Perfection!

The boys from Holley are back with another neat video featuring a cool car from the 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. This time they trained their cameras on a 1959 Beetle that is done in a...

Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass, Street Legal, Chevy Desert Pre-Runner Truck With Decorated Baja History

In an earlier life, the truck you are looking at won the 1987 SCORE Baja 500. Back then it was run as a bruising Class 8 truck and was the featured star of ABC’s coverage of the 1987 Baja 1,000...

Cruise Gallery: The Concert Cruise-In At Fontanel Mansion – Nashville’s Newest and Coolest Weekly Cruise

(Photos by Jeff Lee) – Most cruise nights are held in a parking lot or some other non-nondescript spot. While that is good for physically parking cars, it doesn’t really add at lot to...

$200 Hauler Project Update: Oh What A Difference Some LMC Truck Billet, Grille, and Lower Valance Make!

When we first started the $200 Hauler Project, we knew right away that the mildly bashed grille and completely tweaked rear bumper were going to have to go. We also knew that LMC Truck was the place...

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eBay Find: An Entire Collection of Dukes of Hazzard Replica Vehicles – Buy ‘Em All!

We normally limit ourselves to one eBay find per week, but this collection of replica vehicles from the Dukes of Hazzard is too good not to share. Outside of the typical General Lee, there’s...

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Video: Dodge to Leave NASCAR At Close Of 2012 Season – Move Largely Symbolic But Speaks To Larger NASCAR Issues

While Dodge’s announcement that it is leaving NASCAR at the end of 2012 may not have major reverberations on the track because they only have one organization left actually running their cars,...

Watch A Miata Take Out A Third Gen Firebird During Last Weekend’s Spectator Drags At Seekonk Speedway

Last week we gave you a video bonanza filled with random videos of crashes during “spectator drags” at small circle tracks. Well, “spectator drags” are the internet’s...

eBay Find: The Coolest And Most Weirdly Factory Optioned 1974 Grand Am Ever – 400/4-Speed/4-Door?!

We can’t take credit for finding this one. That goes to Todd Ryden, our pal at In Gear Media. Todd shot us a note when he saw this ad and we fell into the same spell he did while looking at...

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Classic Iron Junkyard Gallery: Walk The Aisles of a Cool Junkyard in Pasadena, Texas With Lots of Neat Old Junk!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – With the dog days of summer holding the gulf coast in a firm headlock, car shows during these months are pretty much nonexistent. So with a need to go...

Action Video: A Look Back at the 2012 Goodguys Sponsor Challenge With Hurst Shifters, the No Limit Truck, and…Chad?!

Like we told you about earlier today, the 2012 Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio played host 2012 to the Sponsor Shootout. The dudes and dudettes at Hurst made a cool video showing the action...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Goodguys PPG Nationals – Columbus, Ohio

(Photos by Justin Oney) – The Goodguys have been stopping in Columbus, Ohio for the last 15 years and for good reason. The show has a life of its own and seems to get bigger and better each...

Video: Chad and Daphne Cruise, and Push, Joe’s 1980 Yamaha Enduro 100 After The Minibike Reunion

You know that we had an awesome time at Joe’s Minibike Reunion in La Crescenta on Saturday, and when the show was over, the fun certainly wasn’t. Daphne and I hit the road on Joe’s...