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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Update: Renderings and Video Progress of the Chip Foose Modified John Deere 4020 Big Buck Tractor

Back in December of ’09 we let you know about a project that Chip Foose has taken on along with John Deere. Foose has been tasked with modifying a cool Deere 4020 tractor into a hot rod. The...

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Speedy Says: The Top 11 Things That Get Speedzzter’s Goat

“Yeah, take back your losing streak. Check your front wheel drive! You’re jammin’ me . . . Quit jammin’ me!” -Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Some days, a BangShifter...

Toyota Execs Being Called Out By Congressmen for the Recall Debacle

Just when Toyota thought the worst was over and was ready to get on with the recall repairs, a couple of congressmen are calling out the company for covering up the real problem. This is a steaming...

Exclusive: Incredible Group of Ford Rods, Muscle, and Factory Race Cars Up For Private Sale

We really, honestly, do not know where to begin. When our friend Jim, the guy behind Project Fat Lane, the 1964 Thunderbolt look-a-like race car we are tracking, let us know that he was going to be...

Event Coverage: Philadelphia’s Motorsports Expo 2010

This year marks the 25th Len Sammons Motorsports Race Car and Trade Show held at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania. The locals just call the show “Motorsports,”...

Video Bonanza: Wheelies

The wheelie. It is many things to many people. To some it is a badge of credibility. Owning a piece of iron that can stand up on its hind legs is something to brag about. To others they are a bane, a...

New Product: Ultra-Torque Assembly Lube From ARP

Bolting motors together correctly is precision work. Lots of that attention to detail goes into the fasteners used and their installation. Making sure that proper torque specs are met can mean the...

Photo Tour: AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania

The Antique Automobile Club of America is one of the outfits known for the massive car swap meets held in Hershey, Pennsylvania (yes, home of the chocolate company), and the AACA also has a huge...

Event Coverage: Open House at Posies Rods and Customs

Posies Rods and Customs is a shop in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, run by a Ken “Posies” Fenical. They say the shop builds “statements,” not just cars. You can see some of those...

New Parts: Billet Oil Pans From Aviaid

Aviaid has been in the business of improving the oiling systems on cars for decades and recently introduced a new billet oil pan that is designed to be used with the company’s Z06 retrofit...

eBay Find: Yet Another WTF-amino

Just in case you thought we were going all straight and narrow on you with our wall to wall coverage of the 2010 Grand National Roadster Show, we’re kicking things off today with this most...

Photos: Saturday at the Grand National Roadster Show, With Pinup Girls

If we spent any more time at the 2010 Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, the fairgrounds would start charging us rent. On Friday we gave you 570-plus photos (links below), and now...

1,100-Plus Photos of the 2010 Grand National Roadster Show

Talk about some massive coverage! We have more than 570 photos from Thursday and Friday at the 2010 Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, and there are more to come. The show was...

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Airs on Speed TV This Weekend! See the Teaser Video Here

I was there announcing the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational after SEMA 2009, and again at the big premiere of the TV show on Hollywood Blvd. earlier this week. Now you can see what it was all...

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