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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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NASCAR’s Wood Brothers Take in NHRA RT66 Nationals

The legendary Wood brothers of NASCAR fame recently attended their first NHRA drag race as guests of Bob Tasca III  at the NHRA RT66 Nationals that were contested last weekend. The brothers...

Website of the Week: Scads of Vintage IMSA Photos

IMSA was one hell of a racing series, especially when it rose to great heights in the 1980’s with the wild prototypes, and lots of factory money backing larger teams. The whole thing would come...

Come See Us At New England Dragway This Saturday Night or Watch and Listen from Home!

This Saturday night, your favorite blogger, Brian Lohnes will be at New England Dragway in Epping, NH to announce the New England Dodge Dealers “Funny Cars Under the Stars” extravaganza....

Richard Petty Motorsports Releases Nine Employees; Cuts Pay

It seems that the trickle down effects from the Chrysler bankruptcy have already begun as the Associated Press is reporting that Richard Petty Motorsports has laid off nine employees and cut salaries...

Carl Long Speaks Out on NASCAR Fine

On Sunday night, NASCAR racer Carl Long appeard on SpeedTv’s show, Windtunnel with Dave Despain. In that appearance, Despain asked Long about his controversial, and massive penalty from NASCAR...

Book Review: Class of 2009: Manitoba’s Cruising Phenomenon in Pictures by Jordan Morningstar

Jordan Morningstar is a member of our forums here on the site and he is also the author and photographer behind the new release, “Class of 2009: Manitoba’s Cruising Phenomenon in...

That’s a Wrap: The Veale and Brown Motorsports A/Fuel Dragster Weekend Wrap Up

This is a weekend wrap up from the A/Fuel dragster team of Veale and Brown Motorsports. These are the dudes who are running large by huge BS.com logos on their five second dragster this season...

With him or At Him?

Here’s a new item that will appear infrequently. It’s called “With him or At Him” and it will feature a car we come across in our travels that was obviously put together by...

Valvoline’s 300,000 mile Guarantee

Valvoline has announced an interesting new program for people that use Valvoline products that could result in your motor being guaranteed for 300,000 miles. Seriously. The aim of the program,...

Drag Strip Site up for Auction

In South Africa. It appears that the USA isn’t the only place that it seems to be impossible to erect a drag strip in. A business man, and drag racing enthusiast in South Africa set about...

eBay Pick of the Week: Amazingly Rare Halibrand Magnesium Wheels

These are the wheels that time forgot. Apparently inflation didn’t though. The auction on these babies is set to end tonight and unless you have a bunch of extra cash laying around or you...

A/Fuel Tech Part 3: Inside the Short-Block

So far in the A/Fuel tech series we’ve introduced you to the world of injected Fuel racing and shown you a little about the hardcore intake setup on these naturally aspirated Fuel Hemis....

Monday Time Killer: Drag Photos by Auto Imagery

Richard Shute and Dave Kommel have been photographing drag races for decades. Several years ago they combined their talents to form the company Auto Imagery Inc. and since then have established...

Barnstormin’: The Case Against Chrysler

Normally, this column runs on Monday afternoons, but seeing as how this is a breaking news topic and the entire subject matter may be rendered moot by the end of the day, we’ve broken with the...