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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $40,000 Thursday!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Factory Hemi Superbird Feature Video: This 1,500-Mile HEMI Superbird Has SERIOUS Drag Racing History!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is back at it and in this video below you are going to get a look at an awesome 1970 Plymouth Superbird that came from the factory with the famed 426 Hemi under...

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This 700HP, LS7 Powered 3rd Gen Camaro Restomod Is Something Special! What A Beast!

I’m a Camaro guy. I know people know me for wagons and mini trucks and whatever but I grew up in a Camaro family, my first car was a Camaro, and I love them. My favorites are first Gens like my...

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Street Car Takeover Atlanta: They Turned a NASCAR Speedway into a NO PREP Track And The Action Was Awesome!

Street Car Takeover in Atlanta was a huge event and the racing action on pit lane of the Super Speedway was hot and heavy. We’ve been doing the same thing at LSFest Texas for the last few...

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Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Drag Week 2005

Chad’s recent discovery of some build photos of his ’56 Chevy called Rusty got me to remembering that I have a treasure trove of photos from Hot Rod‘s Drag Week 2005. I covered the...

Site of the Week: Worshipping the “Better Off Dead” Camaro

A wise man once said, “There’s a fine line between hobby and mental illness.” This dude is walking it. You may or may not remember the cult 1980s teen comedy hit, Better off Dead....

New 3.7L V6 is the Base Engine for 2011 Mustangs

The Mustang News is reporting that the base engine for the 2011 model year Mustangs will be a 3.7L V6, replacing the ancient and stodgy 4.0L mill that currently fills the engine bay of non-GT...

LS9 Powered Camaro from Henessey Performance Engineering

Well that certainly didn’t take long. John Hennessey has shoved a blown LS9 motor into the front of a new Camaro, creating the nastiest ever Camaro that’s based on factory parts. It has...

Survey Shows Americans Love Manufacturing, Just Hate Actually Doing It

A new survey conducted by the firm of Deloitte LLP and The Manufacturing Institute shows that Americans understand that industrial manufacturing is a vital part of the economy but also shows that the...

Automotive Advertising on Television Hits the Skids

It’s no shock that auto manufacturers have massively scaled back on advertising as their bank accounts have dwindled into overdraft protection status. It probably follows the logic chain that...

Pony Cars Coming to NASCAR

Man this is some good news! Thanks to to a tip from KNN (The Kris News Network) we got ahold of this story that confirms that pony cars are on the way to NASCAR. They’ll hit the Nationwide...

That’s a Wrap: Veale/Brown Motorsports NHRA Joliet Divisional Wrap Up

The two-week-in-a-row marathon at Joliet, Illinois’ Route 66 Raceway is finished for 2009. Both Jeff and Andrew Veale stayed at the track in between events, buttoning up some things on the...

Event Coverage: 46 Photos from the Long Beach Swap Meet, 6/14/2009

The swap meet held in Long Beach, Califoria, by Topping Events is nearly as famous as the one in Pomona. I have to admit that I like this one much better than Pomona. Yes, it’s smaller in size,...

Barnstormin’: Finding Your Spot

My wife has this theory that everyone has a couple specific places, like actual, physical places that when you’re there, you simply belong. Normally such thinking lends me to ask her if...

A/Fuel Tech Part 4: The Nitro Dragster Clutch

This is Part 4 of our A/Fuel Dragster Tech Series. We started off with an introduction to injected nitro racing. In Part 2, you saw the crazy intake and fuel systems on the Fuel Hemi cars, and Part 3...

eBay Pick of the Week: 1981 Corvette Sleeper

This 1981 ‘Vette caught us totally off guard. After all, the cars of this era were saddled with weak suck small blocks that made 190 hp on their best day. Outwardly, this one appears to be a...

Event Coverage: 40 Photos from Danvers Ford car show

Here’s a gallery to start off your work week. It’s 40 photos from a local show we hung out at. It was hosted at Danvers Ford in Danvers, Massachusetts, and the show had a smattering of...

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd: It’s 1977 in San Fernando Valley Again.

300 plus muscle cars, street machines, and customs cruised Van Nuys Blvd in San Fernando Valley for the first time in decades, and we were there for all the action. What started as a grassroots...