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IHRA Donates $10,000,000 To St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital And Vows Continued Support And Collaboration!

Now this is some special news. While all of IHRA’s recent announcements about new series, new track associations, and new track purchases are great, this one here is truly amazing. IHRA just...

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Influence and Impact Podcast: Behind the Scenes with Belltech’s Roel Garza! Talking OBS Trucks, Mini Trucks, And More!

Belltech was one of the most influential name brands in the sport truck market of the 1980s and 1990s. Period. Along with a handful of other companies, they lead a revolution in trucks and created a...

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Derek Bieri And David Freiburger Are Attempting To Drive 1,800 MILES HOME In A BUICK POWERED Jeep Wagoneer!

Derek, David, and a Jeep Wagoneer, sounds like a party! I know David has a ton of experience making old crappy Jeeps run, but most of the time they aren’t powered by Buick’s Dauntless V8....

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 2 Racing Action From The Harsh Conditions of Dakar 2026.

Stage 2 action, highlights, and more are below! If you missed the previous video, use the link below. Dakar Rally 2026 is on! The worlds longest, toughest, and most infamous off-road race has started...

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Rebeldryver’s Garage Investigates A 1970 Chevelle SS 396 To Discover It’s Story And Whether It’s A Rare L78 396

Ever look at an old car and wonder about its history? Every car has a story to tell, but sometimes that story is a mystery. Either the previous owner with the knowledge sold the car, or they have...

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2026 New Year’s Backside No Prep Drag Racing at Maple Grove Raceway! They Ain’t Scared Of No Cold!

We already told you that BANGshifter extraordinaire Joe Grippo was at it again this New Year’s Day for Maple Grove Raceway’s annual New Year’s No Prep where they run both frontside and backside...

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Craigslist Find: A Bad Ass 1978 Dodge Muscle Truck, with Video

Many times our Craigslist picks highlight some godawful wrecks or lampoon some big pile of mechanical grossness, but this week that is not the case. We found a totally awesome Dodge truck for sale in...

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Classic Ad Video: The 1967 Pontiac GTO

We took a little heat yesterday for admitting that we thought Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” television commercial for the Charger was kind of neat. We’ve found a classic...

Barris Kustoms Releases a Custom 2010 Camaro, We Release Our Lunch

Some truly whacked stuff has left the doors of Barris Kustoms in recent years. There was a Prius for starters, but this 2010 Camaro “Spirit” beats them all by a country mile. A...

You’re Doing It Wrong Video: How Not To Unload an Excavator

There are lots of videos on the Internet of guys doing crazy impressive stuff with heavy equipment. This is not one of them. Luckily, according to the YouTube caption anyway, no one was hurt and the...

Crazy Photo Sequence: Racer Highsides a Motorcycle, Impersonates Superman

There are a multitude of reasons that we don’t ride motorcycles. Reason number one is that we’re slightly less coordinated than a drunk roller skating on a ice rink covered in marbles. We...

Dumbass: Guy Robs Store, Uses Stretch H2 Limo as Getaway Car

You have to be dumb to rob a gas station. You have to be fourteen levels deeper than dumb to do it and use a stretched H2 limo as the escape vehicle. A 24-year-old Kansas man, Eric Henson, did just...

Doorslammer Drag Video: Pro Mod Action From the 1990 IHRA Fall Nationals

Since we’re on an obvious door slammer kick these last few days, the natural progression leads up to some awesome vintage Pro Mod footage from the first season that the class existed. In 1990,...

eBay Find: An Original 1963 Plymouth Savoy AWB Racer

When we were ooglinf the photos of the Arnie Beswick driven Mercury A/FX racer yesterday we couldn’t help but wonder if there were more surviving AWB race cars out there for sale. We found this...

Rest in Peace: Hummer Brand Officially Dead

Well, that’s the end of that. Hummer dealers were notified yesterday that letters were being drawn up and sent to them regarding the ending of their franchise agreements. After the deal with...

Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven

The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...

Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars

There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...

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Shop Tour: Custom Automotive Machine – Weymouth, Ma

We stopped by Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts, last weekend to beg a favor off shop owner and operator Dana Hard. We had managed to completely botch the removal of broken exhaust...

Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race

Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...

Arnie Beswick Driven 1965 Mercury Comet A/FX Car Heads to Auction, SOHC Motor and All

We’ve been Comet crazy here over the last couple of days, but reader Phil Cooper tipped us off to one of the coolest Comets ever built. This A/FX car was raced by Arnie Beswick who is known for...