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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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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Better Than Rain-X?! Is This The Best Windshield Water Repellent Windshield Coating Ever? 10 Brands Tested!

I am a big fan of Rain-X. I own, and have owned, a few vehicles that don’t have windshield wipers at all and have found that if you apply it right and often enough it works wonders. I’ve...

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Our Final Gallery of 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Pro Mods, Dragsters, Door Cars, And So Much More!

Here’s gallery #4, our final gallery of PDRA East Coast Nationals action, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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The Wild 1981-1985 Era Of Formula One Cars Race At Monaco Again! 1980s F1 Gold at the 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix!

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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Auto Trader Classic Find: A Pro Street 1955 Ford F100 We’re on the Fence About

Last week, we found a Pro Street 1964 Pontiac GTO that was just totally bad ass. That car was perfect on just about every level. This week, we found another Pro Street machine, this a 1955 Ford F100...

The Parting Shift Re-Run: Larry Larson’s Six-Second Vegas Blast

The next time you hear from us, we’ll likely be spouting about Hot Rod Drag Week, and there is an excellent chance Larry Larson’s name will be involved. The whole world expects the first...

Site of the Week: Cruisin’ Caskets

One of the sad realities of life is that everyone eventually dies. Despite the fact that you are really pretty out of it when dead, people like to get creative with the vessel that they will be...

Awesome Video: Dennis Anderson’s New King Sling Mud Bog Racer

Dennis Anderson is the man who made the Grave Digger monster truck famous and who signed on the dotted line when Clear Channel (who owned the Monster Jam series) wanted to buy the commercial rights...

Retro-Galleries: Thursday and Friday on Hot Rod Drag Week 2009

  By the time that Thursday and Friday roll around on Hot Rod Drag Week, knuckles are bloody, sleep has long since stopped being part of the equation, and the brotherhood and camaraderie that...

Be There: Hang Out With Rally Hero Bill Caswell This Weekend in Chicago

Pal o’ BangShift, Bill Caswell is appearing this weekend at the Craftsman Experience, a cool interactive place that Craftsman uses to showcase products and host cool events like this...

eBay Find: A Neato Pro Street 1964 GTO

With Hot Rod Drag Week looming in just a couple of days, we went and searched for something fun to take on the trip. We dug up a coolio 1964 Pontiac GTO that has been given the full Pro Street...

Punisher Comic Issue ‘Hot Rods of Death’ To Hit Stands Soon

You’ll not be shocked to learn that we were comic book readers back in the day. Our primary character of choice was The Punisher. Why? He’s the ultimate example of the bad “good...

Wild Video: Dude Swallowed by Alky Funny Car

The luckiest dude in America is the guy who is standing in front of this Alky Funny Car when the car shoots forward and swallows him up inside the body. It appears to us that the driver was whacking...

Horrific Street Racing Wreck Decapitates Staten Island Man

A 20 year old man was decapitated during a horrifying crash induced by street racing down Bay Street in Staten Island, New York. A passenger in the car escaped with his life but was burned and...

Killer Drag Video: Peter Farber’s 6-Second, 1972 Dodge D100 Truck

Of all our looney friends, Peter Farber stands alone. He currently runs an awesome 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Pro Mod, but the dude cut his teeth in the 1972 Dodge D100 truck featured in this video....

NHRA Unleashed at National Trail this weekend, plus more video.

NHRA’s new UnLeashed series is visiting Hebron Ohio’s National Trail Raceway this weekend for the 3rd UnLeashed event of 2010. If you are looking for some of the quickest and fastest...

Retro Gallery: Photos From Hot Rod Drag Week 2009

  As racers gear up their equipment for another grueling but awesome trip at Hot Rod Drag Week 2010 presented by Gear Vendors, we’re going to get you in the mood by walking you down memory...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Real Z-11 1963 Chevy Impala Factory Racer

With Hot Rod Drag Week coming up next week, we’re in door-slammer mode mentally. While shopping for the whip we would take on the tour, this real Z-11 1963 Chevy Impala jumped out at us. The...