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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Hard Landing Video: What Happens When the Wheelie Bar Breaks While Launching Your Fuel Altered

Our pal Kyle Loftis was at the World Fuel Altered Nationals in Eddyville, Iowa last weekend. The event normally draws some of the wildest short wheelbase, front engined, nitro burning iron that North...

eBay Find: The Caresto T6 R – The Swedish-built 2004 Hot Rod of Year

In 2004, for the first time in history, a foreign built hot rod won the coveted Hot Rod of the Year award. That car, the Swedish fabricated Caresto T6 R is now for sale on eBay. The car was certainly...

Stroll Through a Texas Junkyard Via Bad Ass 360-degree Panormaic Photos

Denton, Texas is the home of a junkyard known as the CTC Auto Ranch. Chances are, you’ll never get to Denton, Texas, but we’ve got a way for you to look at lots of the inventory at this...

Cool Video: The Most Artistic Drag Racing Video We’ve Seen In a While

We’re usually bringing you videos of stuff wrecking, exploding, and generally self-destructing on the drag strip. Today, for this brief shining moment, we’re going uptown, kids! The guys...

Chadmouth: Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Can we do it again next week?

Bonneville. That single word makes anyone who has ever been fast, or dreamed of going fast, envision the mythical great white salt. It’s the unchecked box on more bucket lists than you can...

BangShift Question of the Day: Have You Ever Built Something Wild and Crazy Out of Scrap Parts and Pieces?

While cruising around the 2011 Rough and Tumble Thresherman’s Reunion, BangShifter Gene and I saw the below pictured tractor and stopped dead in our tracks. Built by a couple local young dudes,...

Kick Ass “Redband” Trailer For Car-Centric Movie Drive Released: Movie Looks Killer

You’ve undoubtedly heard some stuff about the upcoming movie, “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling. The premise of the movie pretty much rules. A Hollywood stunt driver supplements his...

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Event Gallery: The 2011 Rough and Tumble Thresherman’s Reunion – Kinzer, PA

While Chad was making his way home from the Bonneville Salt Flats, home to the world’s fastest and most powerful cars, I was heading due south with my family to Kinzer, PA home of one of the...

Truckin’ Awesome Video: True Monster Truck Drag Racing at Englishtown

We can hear the hate mail now. “MONSTER TRUCKS ON A DRAG STRIP?! Like our condoning or celebration of such a kick ass event is out of place. The whole sport of drag racing, especially on the...

Get Famous: Get Your Junk into the 2012 MSD Catalog!

This is a no-brainer beyond all no-brainers. If you’ve got cool junk that sports MSD Ignition equipment (and why the Hell wouldn’t it?) you need to submit a couple photos to the MSD...

Cruise Night Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Association Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Patriots Place- Foxboro, Mass

A late week cruise night on a beautiful August day is gearhead nirvana. We blew off our normal Thursday afternoon schedule and took ol’ Goliath down to the biggest cruise night on the east...

RacingJunk Find: A Multi-Purpose Ex-NASCAR Racer That’s Good for the Salt, the Road and the Local Cruise Night!

The idea of having a true multi-use car is appealing to every gearhead. One machine that can carry you to the burger joint, burn tires at the strip, and run stupid MPHs at LSR events is something we...

Bonneville Thursday Update: Salty Italians, Thrashing for a Legend, Sub-Speed Limit LSR Racing and now more photos.

The So-Al Special Two Banger set a record this morning at 32.419 mph which is “Blazingly slow” according to Freiburger. His best comment was when reciting the end of the run and...

One of the Greatest Wreck Videos Ever: 12-Minutes of Urban Hillbilly Drag Race Wreckage

Sean Melton and his crew at Urban Hillbilly Videos were really trailblazers in door car drag racing video coverage. They were there “before it was cool” and have been pumping out awesome...