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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 Qualifier—TT Spec, Class 1, 2WD, Legends, Unlimited

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the BAJA 500 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert off-road racing as...

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This Might Be The Most Insane JDM Wheel Collection Ever, And Larry Chen Found It By Accident. Check It Out!

I own just two vehicles that are not Chevrolets, and those two are both Japanese imports. They are my 1985 Mitsubishi Mighty Max and my 1994 Honda Civic Hatchback. And while my plan is to build the...

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How To Make New Wheels Look Like Old Steelies, With A Twist! A New Way Of Doing Things!

For several years there have been people using custom bolt on adapters to mount dog dish hubcaps onto Weld Draglite wheels, and while it sounds weird, it really does work. The dog dish caps cover the...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 1 and 2 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat....

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The Anatomy of a Win: Ultimate Street Cars attack Willow Springs and We’ve Got Photos and Results Right Here!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The third stop of the 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series took competitors to their first West coast event at historic Willow Springs...

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RJ Fab Tech Talk: Custom Headers Explained – Rob Lindsay Goes Over Tips, Tricks, And Proven Methods For Custom Header Fabrication.

You may not have heard of RJ Fab, but you’ve probably seen something they have built. When Rob Lindsay started RJ Fab a few decades ago I doubt he thought he’d build a brand that covered...

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Australian Guy Drives For 50 Years Without a License, Then Gets Busted

Life is a funny thing. We have friends who had their licenses taken due to um, agressive driving and got caught about thirty seconds after they decided to slip behind the wheel before getting it...

Site of the Week: Yenko.net

During the horsepower war of the 1960s in Detroit, Ford, GM and Chrysler were cranking out high performance cars that ran harder and faster than anything previously built. That was good enough for...

Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set

We would have never caught this one if it were not for the guys at CarDomain. It seems they surf TMZ.com more than we do, which is never. That celebrity-stalking site posted this way back on...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 2, Martin, Michigan

Day 2 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors, is done. There are three days of racing left for the competitors in this wild event that has cars racing at five drag strips in...

Video: 7-Second Pro Street Firebird at Drag Week 2009

Here’s a video of Eric Yost in his Pro Street Power Adder third gen Pontiac Firebird at Martin, Michigan, on the second day of Drag Week 2009. This pass shows an 8.29, but this car ran 8.11 on...

Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 Day 2 Results are In

Right now it’s the end of Day 2 at Hot Rod Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors. This is the week-long event with drag racing every day, and the cars have to drive on the street from track to...

Michigan Track Sets Crappy Record

Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan, has set a new track record. For rainouts. The track is suffering its worst year (in terms of weather) in its nearly six-decade existence. Adding pressure is the...

Video: ZZ572 Powered Jeep CJ

This Jeep is in Denmark…we think. Where ever it is, we want it. V8 powered CJ Jeeps have a certain air of coolness about them, but one packing a GM Performance Parts ZZ572 crate motor with...

Canadian Street Racing Law Deemed Unconstitutional

A Canadian street racing law that deemed anyone driving 50 kph above the posted speed limit as “street racing” has been deemed unconstitutional by an Ontario judge. The ruling came on the...

New Zealand Grandmother Has a Bitchin’ Hot Rod

This is some kind of cool. A New Zealand grandmother, and former drag racer, has recently been cruising her killer blown-Hemi-powered 1934 Ford hot rod around the streets of Lincoln, New Zealand....

The Dodge Caliber SRT-4 is Dead

Chrysler’s lone exciting small car is dead, according to a report from AutoWeek. No specifics were given on why the car was knocked out of the lineup, but if they’re killing this one, we...

Free Download of the New Mopar Performance Catalog

Mopar Performance has released a new catalog with lots of the old V8 parts still in place and with many all-new parts for the modern cars. It is free to download here at the Mopar web site. Also,...

Live Streaming Video from Hot Rod Drag Week 2009

Hot Rod Magazine’s fifth annual Drag Week is off and running with competitors heading to US 131 Dragway in Martin, Michigan for action today, Tuesday, September 15. Hot Rod is providing a live...

Video: Monday Racing at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009

Our last installment of coverage for Monday’s first day of competition at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 comes from BangShift.com forum member seanm, who put together a video of racing that includes...