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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Car Show Gallery: The 2010 Long Beach Motorama

The Long Beach Motorama has been going since 1958 and continues to feature some of the most beautiful and wonderfully executed kustoms in the world. The show is really broken into two parts. There is...

Photo Gallery: 11th Annual Cruisin’ For a Cure, Costa Mesa, California

Cruisin’ for a Cure is an annual charity car show held in Costa Mesa, California. It is a huge affair, drawing more than 3,000 cars, featuring more than 200 vendors and exhibitors, and it even...

Video Bonanza: Baldwin-Motion Machinery in Action!

As we eluded to in the previous story about the Baldwin-Motion Phase III GT Corvette, the stuff that rolled out of Joel Rosen’s Motion Performance shop was simply beyond compare in the late...

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Ultra-Rare Baldwin-Motion 1971 Phase III GT Corvette Found and Restored

Simply hearing or seeing the words, “Baldwin-Motion” makes our little gearhead heart start to run faster, but when we were informed that the very last Phase III GT Corvette ever built by...

The Turbo Revolution is Upon Us, Projections Say One-Fifth of Vehicles Sold to be Turbocharged by 2015

Turbochargers are still an exception rather than the rule when is comes to domestic cars here in the United States. European manufacturers have been employing them for decades with differing levels...

Cool Video: 1980’s Sand Drag Action Complete With an Awesome Blower Explosion

Back in the 1980’s TNN was the place to be for awesome gearhead television programming. We say that because of the great lineup of shows that they had on Sunday mornings. American Sports...

Lex Joon’s Top Fuel Team Seeks Sponsorship on eBay

Lex Joon and his team Top Fuel have decided to hit eBay in an effort to grab a sponsor or two that would enable them to run the final two races of the NHRA tour this season. Joon has been racing in...

Physics Wins Again Video: How Not to Mud Bog Your ATV

Riding four-wheelers can be loads of fun. Bombing around in the woods, doing some mud bogging, making some high speed runs down fire roads and under high tension wires, a jolly good time. As fun as...

Sad News: Lenny Woods, California Ford Dealer, Son of Drag Racing Legend Tim Woods Found Dead

Lenny Woods, a man who grew up in the midst of the gasser wars and went on to own a Ford Dealership in Chino Hills, California was found dead inside the now closed business, suicide is suspected....

Craigslist Finds: The Donks of Memphis

The classic American full size car has many natural enemies. Demolition derbies have claimed umpteen thousands of them, they have been gutted for their big blocks in junkyards, and most recently they...

NASCAR’s Chase Apparently Chasing Away Fans

Maybe the headline should have read, “Jersey Shore” out draws NASCAR on TV, because it did, by hundreds of thousands of people. Last weekend’s NASCAR event at New Hampshire Motor...

Be There: English Power Tool Drag Racing Championship This Weekend

Yeovil, England will play host to the national Power Tool Drag Racing Championship this weekend. Unfortunately we’ll not be there to cover the event, but that doesn’t mean some of our...

You’re Doing It Wrong Video: How Not To Fire Up a Refurbished Turbine

We’re not qualified to comment on the proper way to start a refurbished turbine engine hanging off the wing of a Boeing 737, but we do know wrong when we see it. For instance, it is wrong to...

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Quaker City Raceway Up For Auction: No Reserve Means A Guaranteed Sale

Quaker City Raceway in Salem, Ohio, is scheduled to go up onto the auction block on October 17, 2010. The track was put up for auction a couple years ago, but with a reserve. This time there is none,...