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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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Fun Video: Killer Vintage Camper For VW Beetles

File this one under, “ain’t never seen that before”, for us anyway. We were tipped off to this cool video featuring a camper from the mid 1970’s designed for use by small...

Former Head of Professional Bull Riders Named CEO of IRL

Randy Bernard, the former head of the Professional Bull Riders Inc., has been named the new CEO of the Indy Racing League in a move that will either be heralded as a great moment of the series or...

Video: Blastro, The Pro Mod Astro Van

Blastro is a blown, alky swilling, tube-chassis version of a Chevy Astro van. It’s bat poop crazy and we love it. After dropping the video of the A-Team van on you yesterday we needed a little...

Michigan Sheriff Turning Confiscated Cars into Police Vehicles

Police departments seizing the property of drug dealers is nothing new. The idea of using cars taken from dirtbags as some type of community vehicle isn’t new either. One sheriff in Saginaw,...

Report: Robby Gordon to Build a Monster Truck

During a recent interview on Sirius satellite radio, racer extraordinaire Robby Gordon said that he will build a monster truck at his shop and compete with it in 2010. He is doing this along with...

Great Read: A Brief History of the Detroit AutoRama

The Detroit AutoRama is set to happen on Feb. 26-28 at Detroit’s Cobo Hall. The show is one of the premier indoor car shows in the country and is home to the much coveted Ridler Award. The...

Craigslist Pick: Big Buck 1952 Ford Truck

This 1952 F1 truck, for sale in Athens, Georgia is a nice piece. It is sporting a flat head, a C4, and what seem to be Mustang Bullitt wheels. It is also equipped with a major league price tag of...

New Shop for JPC Racing

JPC Racing, operated by Justin Burcham, has moved into a newer, and larger home to better take care of their customers. If Justin’s name is familiar to you, you’re probably a follower of...

Video Bonanza: Big Rig Wreckage

Professional truck drivers, specifically the good ones, are people that gearheads should respect. They work the most dangerous job in America. At any second an errant Honda could swerve in front of...

Truck Driver on Meth Falls Out of Rig, Wrecks Seven Cars

While evil, randomly accelerating Toyotas are one thing to be skittish of on the roads, we found a hazard that should strike larger amounts of fear into you. That hazard? Meth-head big rig drivers...

Cool Car Guy Gathering: The Sarasota Cafe Racers

There are a couple of well known regular car guy’s gatherings that happen around the country. Probably the most famous is the Donut Derelicts Saturday morning shindig that happens in SoCal....

RacingJunk Pick: 383 V8-Powered Isuzu Amigo

Who would of ever thought that a lowly Isuzu Amigo could ever be considered awesome sleeper hotness? We didn’t see this one coming, but once we laid our eyes on it, we fell instantly in love....

Man Survives Car Crash, Gets Killed Minutes Later By Crashing a Stolen Police Car

We revel in a good “man bites dog” news story around here. You know, the ones that have some odd twist that makes the story seem like something from a movie or bad novel. They don’t...

Video: A Tribute to the A-Team Van

In the 1980s, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a campy television show that featured a kick ass vehicle during every episode. Maybe it was KITT on Knight Rider, or perhaps it was...