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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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Game Changer: Aeromotive’s New Drop In Stealth Kits for 03-Up Corvettes

Aeromotive has once again changed the fuel system game with the introduction of their Stealth System for 2003 1/2 and up Corvettes. This is a complete drop in fuel system that slides right into the...

Craigslist Find: A Crazy Rare and Totally Cool 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon

We’re getting into Bonneville mode already as Speed Week has already gotten off the ground with tech inspection yesterday. We were planning on finding some clapped out junk Bonneville for Chad...

Barnstormin’: It’s About the Show, Stupid

With the recent announcement that New England Dragway will be leaving the IHRA to race under the NHRA banner in 2011, I’ve been thinking a lot about the format change that IHRA made coming into...

EcoRace: Roush Yates to Hot Rod EcoBoost V6 Engines for American LeMans Series

When Ford’s EcoBoost turbo V6 engine hit the shelves and dealerships, we were wondering if it would gain any traction as a racing engine at some point. It makes great power from the factory and...

Video Bonanza: Fun With Military Deuce and a Half 6×6 Trucks

The M35 family of trucks that have been serving the military for decades certainly do not get the amount of love that the little WWII-era Jeeps get with respect to their vital role in the service,...

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Fact or Fiction? The Man Who Owned (and Drove) His Rolls For 82 Years

We received an e-mail the other day that told the story of a man named Allen Swift from Springfield, Massachusetts, who supposedly received a brand new 1928 Rolls Royce from his pop as a graduation...

Power Plants: Ford Rolls Out Four New Engines for F-150

Ford has announced a completely new engine lineup for the 2011 F-150. The engines range from the twin-turbo EcoBoost six cylinder to the rompin’ stompin’ 411hp 6.2L engine that was first...

eBay Find: An $11,000 Renault Alliance

When we plugged “Renault” into the search line on eBay we figured that an old 2CV or some other oddity would pop up. We figured wrong. The highest price item carrying the Renault tag on...

Video: Insane Flaming Engine Failure and Freefalling Crowd Killer

Oh man is this video nuts. Racing up sand dunes is a full-on motorsports frenzy in the Middle East and this video shows the absolute worst case scenario at a dune event. The hot roddy truck makes it...

RacingJunk Find: A Neato 1977 Ford Class 8100 Off Road Racing Truck

We always tell you that we’re lusting after the various vehicles we find on our normal slate of websites that sell cool stuff, but this time we really mean it. This 1977 Ford desert racing...

Shop Tour: Sire Fabrication

You probably remember the name Yannick Sire from the insane “Priapism” twin-engine speed buggy that was featured in Hot Rod a while back. Sire constructed that whole car from scratch. He...

Great News: MSD’s 2010 Motor Money Rebate

The fine folks over at MSD Ignition have stepped up to the plate once again this year with the 2010 Motor Money Rebate program. They will reward any purchase of more than $300 with a $30 rebate and...

Car Show Gallery: The 47th Das Awkscht Fescht

Despite having one of the oddest names for a car show in America, the Das Awkscht Fescht is a massive event in Pennsylvania. For nearly 50 years the show has been filling the 42-acre Macungie...

Second Annual Pocono Drag Lodge Reunion This Weekend

The Pocono Drag Lodge operated in Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1972 when the facility was ravaged by Hurricane Agnes. During the years it operated the track was home to everything from weekly grudge...