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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Prime Source for Fabrication Parts and Tools

Here’s a tip to a check out a company we’ve used multiple times when making stuff from scratch. It’s Chassis Shop, a great source for little brackets, tube bends, tabs, cables, rod...

Great Read: A Maryland Man and His Vintage Mack

It is always cool when we hear stories of guys who worked for a particular car or truck company, and who have such deep affection for the stuff that they were working on that they bought one for...

Carnage Video: Drift Driver Runs Himself Over

This video was probably posted online the day after Al Gore invented the Internet, but it’s still stunning. An amateur drifter at a parking-lot event starts doing donuts, gets out of the car,...

NASCAR Testing 17-inch Tires

Word has escaped that NASCAR and Goodyear will be testing a 17 inch tire today at Richmond International Speedway. In addition to the increased wheel diameter, the tire is also 1.5 inches wider....

Jerks! Hot Rod Stolen in Oklahoma

All points bulletin! The pictured ’31 Ford coupe has been stolen in Purcell, Oklahoma. Spread the word and keep your eyes open. This is a recognizable car with yellow paint that will melt your...

ALMS: A Plucky Racing Series Making Its Own Way (Plus Outrageous Crash Footage)

The American Lemans Series has been around since 1999. It was conceived by and is operated by Dan Panoz the owner of Florida’s Sebring, Canada’s Mosport, and Georgia’s Road Atlanta...

Event Gallery: Geezers at the Grove 2009 by Joe Grippo

Maple Grove’s big nostalgia race every year is the weekend long festival of old stuff called, “Geezers at the Grove”. Racers and fans travel from miles around to see the show which...

Missed the Memo: News Story on the

Published the same day that the results from the RM “Icons of Speed and Style” auction became widespread knowledge, this piece from the Bloomberg News Service touted the awesome rising...

Great Fabrication Parts and Tools from Chassis Shop

This is not really a new product announcement, but a tip to a check out a company we’ve used multiple times when making stuff from scratch. It’s Chassis Shop, a great source for little...

Welcome to the Big Leagues Kid: Logano Flips Seven Times in Dover

Joey Logano already has a Sprint Cup win under his belt, but his real baptism by fire came last weekend on the “Monster Mile” in Dover, Delware, when he was involved in a nasty wreck that...

Breaking News: Holley Files for Bankruptcy…Again!

We can’t believe it either, but it looks like Holley Performance, a leading supplier of performance fuel systems and other high-performance products, is once again filing for Chapter 11...

Great Find: Gallery of Vintage Print Ads for Muscle Cars

Automotive print ads from the muscle car era ranged from funny to boastful to downright trippy. That being said, they all were awesome and some could be great examples of how the domestic...

Craigslist Find: Lawn Tractor Death Machine From Hell

Let’s be honest, we all need a lawn tractor capable of driving over a Prius. Read the Bill of Rights closely some day and deep down in the fine print somewhere past the “bear arms”...

Renault F1 Team Wrecked Intentionally; Full Story From the New York Times

It sounds like something out of a movie. A desperate F1 team, two drivers, a planned crash. Thing is, it’s real life. It has been revealed that at last season’s Singapore GP, the first...