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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(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 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Listen To The Entire Big Sounds Of The Drags 2001 Album Here, Free! – Crank It Up!

Fun fact to know and share. The first piece of drag racing journalism I ever had published outside of the New England Dragway newspaper was a piece I wrote about pro mods for Nitronic Research. While...

Happy 3/15! Today We Look At The Oft Forgotten 315ci Chrysler Poly V8 Engine

We’re pretty sure you were all waiting for 3/18 to come around and that we’d be talking Mopar small blocks at that point. Well, wake up! Rather than wait until the date you all knew was...

Historic Promo Video: Chevrolet’s Promo Movie Selling Ram-Jet Fuel Injection for 1957

What a world it must have been for a gearhead in the late 1950s. So much was happening with aviation technology, and car companies were innovating, inventing, and experimenting with stuff that would...

Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown Photos Is Right Here! LST Was Off The Chain, With Trucks Of Every Flavor On Display In Texas.

This is it, our last round of photos from LST! We’ve had a great time sharing all our photos with you from this awesome event. It is one of our favorites all year long and does so much to...

March Meet 2024 Photos: Nitro Funny Cars, Altereds, And More! We’ve Got Nostalgia Drag Racing Photos Right Here.

We’ve got more nitro photos from the March Meet right here, plus a link to more nitro and our gallery of door cars and other sportsman classes below. We’ll have even more nitro over the...

FORGOTTEN Buick Wildcat! Will It RUN and ROADTRIP For Dylan McCool After 21 Years?

Dylan is back at it again, this time with a Buick Wildcat that hasn’t been driven in 21 years. Not only does he want to make it run and drive again, but also road trip the thing home...

Shop Organization: Adam Savage Builds His Dream Hardware Storage System Like Only He Does!

Every Mythbusters fan on the planet knows Adam Savage and knows that he’s a pretty sharp, and incredibly creative, guy who thinks outside the box sometimes. If you aren’t familiar with...

Custom Feature Video: This 1960’s Style Custom Pickup Is Something Special. Plus How It Came Together.

I love unique rides that have some style and this one here has it in spades. It might not be for everyone, but it sure is a bitchin hot rod that looks like it was built right. Unlike most anything...

This Video Featuring The Rebuild Of An Ancient Cadillac 314ci V8 Is The Right Way To Celebrate 3/14

One of the great engines that no one aside from early Cadillac experts really remembers much about is the 314ci V8 the company offered in the ‘teens and twenties. It was the engine that set the...

Watch This Massive TerraGator Wearing A Classic International Pickup Body Attack A Pull!

The TerraGator is one of the cooler pieces of farm machinery out there. Developed in the 1960s and hitting the market in the early 1970s the massive three wheeled machines are known as some of the...

The American Powertrain Thursday Shift: Ripping Lenco Levers With The Front End Up – Like A BOSS!

The only thing cooler than a Lenco transmission is a Lenco transmission being shifted with the front end three feet in the air, right? This video has all of that action and while we’re pretty...

Apollo Video: Check Out This Neat 1960s Footage Of The Grumman Lunar Rover Prototype – Weinermobile In Space?

The last missions of the Apollo program over the course of 1971-1972 are largely forgotten by many people and that’s kind of crummy. Lots of neat stuff was done on those trips to the moon and...

Small Progress: The 1987 Chevy Corsica Was A Step Forward For GM But Not A Game Changer

Back in the late 1980s GM finally got the message that they were on a bad road to nowhere. They embarked on a mission to reorganize the company and redefine the brands and nameplates that made up the...

Muncie Master Class: Watch A Master Transmission Expert Pull A 1967 Muncie 4-Speed Apart And Inspect It

The Precision Transmission channel on YouTube may just be the best thing you’ve never seen before. Why? Because every video is an exploration, an education, and a study in how an expert in a...