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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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The State of American Performance: Corvette ZR1X vs. Mustang GTD vs. Lucid Sapphire vs. Czinger 21C on the Road and the Track.

Horsepower has never been easier to make, more readily available, or more usable than it is in 2026. And while car prices have climbed, and I certainly can’t afford any of these machines here,...

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Craigslist Find: A Pinto Mini-Stocker Complete with Spares

We’ve been quietly longing to go budget beater stock car racing for some time now. The gallery we posted earlier in the week from the dirt Battleground Speedway really got our gears turning....

Barnstormin’: Heading to Loring, Lobster, Hot Rods, and Maine State Troopers

Well, we’ve arrived at Loring, Maine. We’ve sipped our first beers, ate a bunch of lobster, oogled a trio of cool hot rods, and skirted a huge speeding ticket due to the good graces of a...

Ivan Stewart is Auctioning Trucks, Memorabilia, and Parts! Get your pennies ready.

Ivan “The Ironman” Stewart, multi-time Baja 1000 winner, and off-road racing icon is having an auction in honor of his retirement on August 28th. Stewart’s career includes...

Is Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Danger of Collapsing Under It’s Own Financial Weight?

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is one of the most famous altars to speed in the world. It is also one of the largest and most expensive to operate. The track really runs just a handful of events...

New 15W50 Break-In Oil From Comp Cams

Breaking in a new motor is both an exciting and nerve racking experience. With oil being stripped of several critical elements due to government regulations there are few truly good options left for...

Video Bonanza: Loring Timing Association 2009 Meet Videos

By the time you read this we’ll be headed north to the uppermost portion of Maine to join a small band of dedicated speed freaks at the Loring Timing Association’s 2010 LSR Meet. The...

Great Read: A Good Interview with Chip Foose

Chip Foose is one of the most likable “big wheels” in the car hobby. He’s a legit car guy, can fit into any room of people, and of course manages to design and build some awesome...

eBay Find: A Barn Find 1966 Pontiac LeMans Sprint at No Reserve!

We’re oddly fascinated with the OHC six Pontiacs of the late 1960s. The engine was a pet project of John DeLorean and an attempt to appeal to the enthusiast driver who was looking for a more...

Event Coverage: The 9th Annual Englishtown Funny Car Reunion and Old Time Drags

The Funny Car Reunion and Old Time Drags are events that simply have to be taken in. Held each summer at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, it draws all of the strongest nostalgia Funny Cars...

Event Coverage: The 2010 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular

The KKOA Leadsled Spectacular is billed as the world’s oldest and most established Custom Car event. It was started thirty years ago and continues to thrive today as evidenced by the great...

Video Bonanza: Evel Knievel, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Evel Knievel is an interesting character study. On the one hand there is the guy with the panache, guts, and skill to fly a too heavy motorcycle over too far a distance in front of tens of thousands...

Check it Out: A Killer Show This Weekend at HRE Wheels,Tour the Factory

If you are in the San Diego area this weekend make sure to stop by HRE Wheels on Saturday morning. They are hosting a car show and giving factory tours. HRE builds some really wild high-end stuff so...

Crazy Euro Wreckage: A Spec Racer Flies, Flips, and Tries to Kill Turn Workers

While we generally hate the hell out of “spec” racing, it does provide very tight action, expecially on road courses. That tight action can often lead to wreckage, normally it is not as...

Racing Junk Find: The World’s Baddest Ass Pit Vehicle

Hit any racing event and you’ll see multitudes of people cruising the grounds on mini-bikes, golf carts, old mopeds and other small stuff. That’s all fine for them, but for us it is...