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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Top Fuel Rotary Engine!

We’ve got to thank our buddy Jon for the tip, because this is something we never would have never thought of or looked for. It’s the homepage of a team of racers who plan to run a...

Monday Time Killer: All About McCulloch Superchargers

McCulloch superchargers rank among the coolest of old speed parts. Best known for their factory efforts on cars like the Thunderbird, some Studebakers, and even some Kaiser models, these blowers were...

Kruse Auction Controversy in Arizona

The Arizona Daily Star newspaper ran a story late last week about people who had sold collectible cars at a Kruse auction in Tucson. In the story, people who sold stuff weeks ago claim that Kruse...

Set your DVR for the Drag Racing Hall of Fame

Fans of Drag Racing history will want to make sure they are tuned in, or their DVR is set to record “Inside Drag Racing” this Sunday morning at 11:30 AM on the Fox Sports Network, as they...

CraigsList Pick of the Week: Blower vs. Violations

Here is an interesting question. Does a supercharger erase or at least offset a number of style violations? This Camaro has both a blower and a host of violations, so we’ll let you be the...

Ron Capps Racing in Tony Stewart’s Prelude to a Dream

Ron Capps is a racer’s racer. For the fifth year in a row, he’ll be mixing it up on the historic dirt oval of Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio at Tony Stewart’s “Prelude to...

Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Ramblers

Outside of Volvos built during the 1980s, have there been any more square-ish looking cars ever built that the Ramblers of the late 1950s? We’re not saying that in a bad way, but just as a...

Lifelong Pontiac Dealers Bracing for Uncertain Future

We were sent a link to an interesting New York Times story about two lifelong Pontiac dealers and their thoughts on the state of the automotive business and what will become of their family...

Gearhead Destination: Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, California

The SoCal guys are rolling their eyes, but face it boys, this place and the weekly Friday cruise night it holds are something special. It’s a gathering spot for great cars, media types,...

Video of the Week: The Corsica Q-Ship

Most call cars like this lowly looking Chevy Corsica a sleeper. We like the older school Q-Ship terminology. Q-Ships were essentially decoy ships used by the British and US Navies during WWI and...

Carnage of the Week: Nastiest Engine Explosion Video Ever

This new addition to our regular weekly blog items will highlight, as its title denotes, stuff going horribly wrong. Wrecks, explosions, rods exiting the block, blowers banging, you name it, it will...

Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Blown V8 Drag Bike, With a Powerglide!

I first ran across Mike Charlton and his insane creation, Quasi-Moto, at the 2002 Gasser Reunion at Thompson Drag Raceway in Thompson, Ohio. It’s quite obviously not a typical motorcycle. In...

Hajek Motorsports Shooting for Mustang Closed-Course Speed Record

Fresh from yesterday’s news item about a Hajek Motorsports Cobra Jet Mustang drag car, we got news that Brent Hajek and his band of cronies aim to set the “closed course speed record for...

Site of the Week: Roy Brizio Street Rods

Roy Brizio has been building killer, high-end hot rods for decades. He regularly gets contracted by celebrities of all genres to construct their dream hot rods. Hell, Jeff Beck has even written music...