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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Friday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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More Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Like A Good Neighbor, Finnegan Is There. Check Out The Two Day Roll Bar Install That Finnegan And Joe Are Doing In This Chevy II.

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as...

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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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Retro Review: This MotorWeek Review Of The Then New 1991 GMC Syclone Is Awesome

In today’s world when we hear of a company launching model with a turbocharged V6 engine, everyone shrugs. Its the way of the world these days. Turbochargers are everywhere and even lame little...

Watch This Super Stock D/Modified Corvette Attack Orlando Speed World In ’87 – Huge Revs, Bang Shifting!

We have to thank BangShifter Bob Chambers for the link to the video you’ll see below. The footage comes from a Saturday at Orlando Speed World drag strip circa 1987 and it features the awesome...

Racing In The Rain: Watch This 1958 Sadler-Chevrolet Mk3 Attack The Road Course In The Wetness

If you are a race car driver in England, it seems like you should be pretty versed in wet competition, right? The country is known for being slightly more than damp at times and racing in the rain is...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Modifying The Front Fenders To Fit The Custom Headlight Rings On The GMC Roadster

It’s time to modify the fenders to make not only these large custom headlight rings fit the curves of the fenders, but also to make the front bumper and grill flow into them too. This is a fun...

HOW TO Part 2: STEP BY STEP Metal Shaping a Custom Dash – English Wheel, Bead Rolling, Wire Form!– Custom Dash For The Make It Kustom 1931 Model A Roadster

In Part 1, we talked about how Karl has made several hammer forms on his YouTube Channel over the years and they are WAY easier and cooler than I ever realized. I never had put much thought into it,...

FREE, LIVE, BIG MONEY BRACKET RACING: Great American Stars and Stripes New Year’s Spectacular – Saturday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2024 is going to be awesome, 2023 isn’t done yet!...

Fantastic Video: This Old Ad For A Fiat 127 Features One Of The More Incredible Driving Sequences Ever

The Fiat 127 was one of those cars that people instantly ate up. Fiat sold ’em like they were free beer from the early 1970s right into the 1980s with little more than cosmetic upgrades. The...

Track Freaks: Check Out This 1990 Video With A Mini-Van Tank and The Crazy Super Trax Peterbilt

Molalla, Oregon is the spot where this video was captured about 30 years ago and it’s a pretty neat watch if you are a fan of monster trucks from the 1980s and early 1990s. The video shows a...

Cool Video: Watch A 1927 Atlas-Imperial Diesel Tug Boat Engine Start Up – So Many Valves, Knobs, and Handles!

There’s something about watching massive old engines start up that we cannot get enough of. While this engine is certainly not the largest thing we have ever showed you and some may even argue...

Listening To Dave McClelland Call A 1980s Stadium Off Road Race Will Make Your Day

Mickey Thompson’s Off Road Warriors was a film produced the 1980s to act as a promotional tool for short course off road racing, a sport that the man had himself invented and was promoting...

It Was A HOT ROD CHRISTMAS ! The 3rd Annual Fort Worth CHRISTMAS CRUISE 2023 Made For A Fun Christmas Night!

We hung out with our friends on Christmas night for the 3rd annual Christmas cruise to Fort Worth, and it was a fun time had by all. Racers and hot rodders hanging out and bench racing before hitting...

They Hit The Walls, And Each Other Trying To Win What Has To Be One Of The Most Epic Winged Sprint Car Races You Will EVER See!

I grew up in Northern California in a drag racing family. We went to Fremont Dragstrip quite often when I was growing up, and drag racing was what we did. We didn’t autocross, or road race, or...

Edd China Is Dunking A Rusty 1986 Range Rover Chassis in 1935 Litres of Evaporust. Will It Actually Work?

I’m a fan of Evaporust, I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been using it since it came in a jug with a label that barely had a logo on it and have used it to repair and clean rusted tools,...

Jay Leno Takes Us For A Ride In Boyd Coddington’s 1989 Chopped Sport Truck – This Truck Helped Shape The Sport Truck Movement!

This Boyd Coddington built 1989 C1500 GMC is one of the most iconic custom trucks built in the last 35 years. This truck has been credited with starting the sport truck movement that we all know and...