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Easiest Chop Top Ever? It Looks So Simple When Mackey and Machine Do It! Complete Top Chop In 15 Minutes. Watch.

Anyone who’s been around here much knows that we love chop tops and love videos showing tops being chopped. We’ve featured a ton of video from Bello’s Kustoms over the years, but...

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IHRA Triple Crown Qualifying LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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Craigslist Find: A Homegrown 1976 Ford Monster Mudder Truck

Massive homebuilt trucks have a strange appeal to us. Take this giant ass 1976 Ford that was constructed by someone in the Omaha, Nebraska, area. It has half a mile of lift, a body that appears to...

AutoTrader Classics Find: A Neato 1962 Corvette Vintage Road Racer

We were recently chatting with a buddy about Corvettes. The topic of conversation gravitated to the classic American sports car and which variation of it we’d want to own. That one came in like...

Vintage Muscle Car Road Test Video: A 1971 Olds 442 W30 ‘Vert Gets Thrashed

With a total production of about 30 cars, it’s rare to lay eyes on a real 1971 Olds 442 W30 convertible, so seeing one of these cars get thrashed on a road course, spun out, and thrown through...

Pay Up Sucka: GM Repays US and Canadian Loans, Optimistic That Tax Payers Will Be Fully Repaid

Ed Whitacre was working the media channels hard core yesterday, announcing that GM had paid Canada and the US back their 8-billion in loans and then jetting (remember when that was a bad thing?) to...

Carnage Video: Violent Sprint Car and Midget Wrecks

It was bought to our attention that Sprint Car and Midget racing season was cranking up and this video was tipped off to us as a way to mark that. You may think it odd to mark the start of the season...

Old Stock Car Goodness: The Historic Grand National Stock Car Association

We find old cars to be exceptionally bad ass. There are few things neater in our nostalgia lovin’ hearts than the big iron that raced on road courses and ovals during decades past. We’ve...

BREAKING NEWS: Tasca Ford’s 2010 Cobra Jet Mustang Runs 8.97/153mph!

Carl Tasca, wheeling 2010 Cobra Jet #27, made the first run in the eight-second zone for the limited edition factory drag cars today at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire. As best we know...

Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump

Tuff Truck races are normally a good time. The competitions are basically an off-road style obstacle course complete with jumps, mud, and other impedances. The trucks are all home-built creations and...

Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell

It was all going to be so perfect. We were going to re-ring one cylinder in Goliath’s 292ci straight six and then it would be off to the shop to have the rotted cab floors repaired. That pipe...

NASCAR Track Operator Calls Start and Park Drivers Thieves

The president of Texas Motor Speedway accused start-and-park NASCAR teams of “stealing money” and said that NASCAR needs to find ways to stop the practice. Eddie Gossage, the guy in...

Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989

After seeing the photos of Ellis Vial putting his killer Pro Mod up on two wheels, we went hunting for some cool video showing the early days of the class. We did even better than that, we found some...

Great Save Photos: Elllis Vial Does Some Unintentional Stunt Driving at VMP

We were cruising through the website of the wildest drag racing series in America, ADRL.us, the other day and came across an item on their blog we had to share with you. Ellis Vial, a racer in the...

Shop Tour: We hang out at Diversified Creations

While covering the fabled Detroit Autorama a few weeks ago, we were lucky enough to get some time with several friends in the Detroit area. And as you would expect from us, these guys are all hard...

Project Car Update: Eddie Krawiec’s Project Radial-ation Camaro

A while back we introduced you to 2008 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Eddie Kraweic’s bitchin’ drag radial project car. It’s being built by DMC Racing in Halifax,...