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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! | Day 1 | INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Proper Vintage F1 Racing in Monaco: The 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix Did Not Disappoint! Awesome Racing Action!

I’m not a die hard Formula 1 fan that follows all the racers and points and such. But I appreciate the cars and the racing and all the technology that is present in that world nowadays. With...

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LIVE REPLAY: Circuit of the Americas GT World Challenge America powered by AWS 2026

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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5.30 OUTLAW SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS AT MOORESVILLE! 704 OUTLAWS SEASON OPENER APRIL 2026!

We’ve said it multiple times, but it still makes me smile when I see heads up no-prep racers running an index class, and the awesome popularity of Lil’ Gangsta’s and other classes...

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Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #7 – GMC EM5700

Here’s the seventh video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a GMC EM5700. This 1967 GMC is something interesting and Steve is going to teach us about it, and more! Watch and if you...

Jeff Lutz Returns To Drag And Drive! Florida’s Sick Week 2024 Starts Now! | Sick Week Day 0

It’s winter in Florida and that means it is time for Sick Week 2024, the first Drag and Drive event of the year. This event is always a good time, features some great heavy hitters, and is a...

How To Step Up Your Fabrication Game With A Few Simple Tips, Tricks, And Techniques That Don’t Require Any New Tools!

When you see a car or truck that you really dig, that has custom fabrication work on the chassis, suspension, etc, the custom touches are what catches your eye. With that said, it isn’t always...

Safety First! Strap In With Harnesses, Seats, And More From RaceQuip. Check Out All The Options Here!

We’re big on safety around here and are sticklers on having the right safety equipment in the car and on ourselves, for the type of racing we’re doing. While a lot of the gear does cross...

Rumble Guts: Watch The Fancifully Massive PT Boat Engine Powered Packard Bentley Fire Up!

This is pretty awesome, if not totally off the wall. You are about to see the incredibly and fancifully massive PT Boat engine powered Packard Bentley fire up. This is one of those cars that a guy...

Watch The Violent End And Aftermath Of This 8.3L Cummins Powered Minneapolis-Moline Pulling Tractor

Boost. It is that magical thing which turns mundane, run of the mill, engines into heroic piles of iron and aluminum. It can also turn those heroic piles of iron and aluminum into broken and costly...

This 1964 US Army Progress Report On The Development Of A Universal Engineering Tractor Rules

Here’s some cool footage for all of you heavy equipment dork out there like me. I found this 1960 US Army progress report on the development of a universal engineering tractor and it is pretty...

The Alfarrari Project: New Intake For The Ferrari Engine, Making Things Symmetrical, And A Better Hood Bulge.

The Alfarrari project is coming along great, but it needs some enhancements and Jeff wanted a different intake manifold and just found one. This intake is going to allow for more symmetry under the...

Vice Grip Garage Is BIG BLOCK Swapping A 80’s Built Drag Car and will the Independence Chevelle make a return?

Derek is back at it, with a big block swap that has to happen if the car was going to make it to Sick Week. This time he might have bitten off more than he can chew, because it sounds too simple of a...

Finnegan Got His CSI On And Sherlock’d His Dead Big Block Chevy and Found Out Why It Broke!

Finnegan is back at it, in the garage and tearing stuff apart. This time it’s the 632 cubic inch Big Block Chevrolet that he broke. But what broke? Sometimes you tear up something so bad that...

How Different Are 1939 Ford And 1939 Mercury Coupes? Ford And Mercury Are The Same Right? Or Are They?

Many of us are used to Ford and Mercury models of cars sharing a ton of style and bones. There were a ton of them that shared platforms and architecture in the 1960’s and beyond, but how about...

CARBURETED M90 LS TEST-HOW TO: RUN A CARB ON A CHEAP M90 SUPERCHARGER! JUST CUT A HOLE IN THE TOP!

Richard has been testing these low buck M90 Superchargers like a mad man and has found the limits of their performance, along with simple ways to run them on just about anything. It’s awesome...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #6 – The High Class Diamond T Rig

Here’s the sixth video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a Diamond T. These were high dollar rigs back in the day. Check it out. Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission...

Iron Trap’s Hidden 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod: Mocking Up The 331 Cadillac Engine In This 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod.

In a previous video we shared the 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod that the guys at Iron Trap Garage found stashed away in an old garage, gave a first wash, and discovered had a seized engine. But lucky...