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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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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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Captain Insano Video: Ride on the Nose of Bill Warner’s 311mph Motorcycle at Loring, Maine!

You’ve undoubtedly read lots of stuff about Bill Warner’s wild 311mph run at the Loring Timing Association’s event last weekend. Now you can ride along with him! In this video...

Tune In NOW: Lohnes Announcing the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 1 Points Meet in Epping, NH

After he got thrown out of Canada last weekend, Lohnes has set up shop at his happy place, New England Dragway in Epping, NH for the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 1 points meet. He told me...

eBay Find: A Super Cool and Ultra Rare Frenzel Supercharger

Early speed parts rule. That’s a fact. Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s industrious machine shop owners across the country could make and market parts of their own design. One such...

Donate if You Can: Bitchin’ Mike Charlton Documentary Film Makers Looking to Group Source Funding for Final Filming

Back in March we told you about and showed you a trailer for a documentary being made about Ohio resident Mike Charlton and his home-brewed quest to set the LSR record for motorcycles with his crazy...

Project Fat Cad Update 6: Adding a Cold Air Intake and a Measly Pound!

  Project Fat Cad Update 1 Project Fat Cad Update 2 Project Fat Cad Update 3 Project Fat Cad Update 4 Project Fat Cad Update 5    At Spectre Performance, we not only design and build...

Cool News: Sponsors Announced for the 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge has really become the defacto measuring stick for the highest level Pro Touring cars in the world. Featuring events like a Speed Stop Challenge, Autocross,...

Demon Carburetors and BG Fuel Systems are back errrr coming soon!

We are happy to announce that despite ceasing operations early in 2011, Demon Carburetors and BG Fuel Systems are on their way back! Barry Grant started the company in the 1990s, after positioning...

LSR Video: Pam Beineke Runs 205mph at Loring in the 1971 Wing Car She and Her Husband Gary Built

Gary and Pam Beineke built their “never was” 1971 wing car tribute to the K&K Insurance machine of Bobby Issac for one reason…to haul ass. Crafted in their home shop, the car...

Racing Junk Find: An Odd “Exhibition” PT Cruiser

One man’s exhibition vehicle is another man’s horror show. This PT Cruiser, which was apparently built to fill a hole in the “exhibition and arena show” market for burnout...

Ridetech weighs your rod free at the 2011 NSRA Nationals in Louisville

The NSRA Nationals in Louisville Kentucky are just around the corner and as usual promise to be a giant show. To help promote their new line of coil-over shocks, Ridetech is going to help you figure...

Wild Video: A Crashing Porsche Flies Into a Parking Area and Parallel Parks!

This video is reaching terminal viral velocity around the web, and for good reason. It shows a Porsche, possibly a Cayman, launching from nowhere onto the deck of a parking garage or parking...

Barnstormin’: Nitro Can Be a Real Bitch…and Other Ruminations From a Wild Weekend in Canada

Last weekend’s IHRA Mopar Nitro Jam Nationals at the Grand Bend Motorplex, in Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada was a pretty wild deal. The race provided several stark examples of just how dangerous...

MSD is Back With a Killer Rebate in 2011!

After their highly successful “Cash for Cruising” rebate program in 2010, MSD Ignition is back with another killer rebate offer for this cruising and racing season. The Rev’n in...

Who Gets the Blame? Are Ford Raptor Frames Faulty or Are Owners Expecting Too Much?

One of the hotter stories floating around the internet for the last couple weeks involves Ford’s bad Larry off-road truck, the Raptor. It has come to light that these trucks are experiencing...