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The Monster Energy 6th Annual St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix by Visit St. Pete-Clearwater Day 1

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicks off their 2026 season today in St. Petersburg Florida, and features big speed from giant offshore boats and more. You can...

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LIVE Big Money Bracket Racing: The West Coast Bracket Races Southwest Showdown Is LIVE Right Here All Weekend Long!

It’s that time of year again, when racers from the western states and beyond show up at Tucson Dragway for what has become the premier event of the West Coast Bracket Races series. The Southwest...

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FREE LIVESTREAMING DRAG RACING: DOOR CAR DOMINATION 2026 FROM MARYLAND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

There is a lot of drag racing going on this weekend, as Spring is here and that means racing, racing, and more racing. We’re excited to share the 2nd annual Blittersdorf’s Automotive Door...

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FREE LIVE NHRA Regional Racing Action: Division 4 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At No Problem Raceway – Saturday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at No Problem Raceway In Louisiana. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up...

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Desert Off-Road Racing Livestream: The 2026 King Shocks 39th SCORE San Felipe 250 – Qualifying, Contingency, And Racing!

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the King Shocks San Felipe 250 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert...

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FREE ROAD RACING LIVESTREAM | Race 1 | Sonoma Raceway | TC America powered by Skip Barber 2026, Plus McLaren Racing, GT4, And More!

If you want to see some fun road racing action this weekend, look no further than Sonoma Raceway, aka Sears Point, in Northern California. Located just north of the San Francisco Bay, this race track...

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Barnstormin’: In Praise of Open Trailers

Gale Banks Display at the Wally Parks

The photo shows just a few of the 34 engines that were headed out of Banks Engineering last week, on the way to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, for this week’s...

New Resto Decals for Garlits Tachs

This is so cool! Anyone remember the Don Garlits signature tachs by Sun? They were in full Captain America trim in red, white, and blue. They’ve been going for big bucks on eBay for the past...

62 Photos from Today’s Long Beach Swap Meet

After clearing 10,000 square feet of junk out of our old 7,000-square-foot shop, we had lots of stuff to get rid of. Combine that with our need for food money and it was obvious that we had to go...

Lunati Pistons for Cheap

Interestingly, Lunati is now owned by (among others) Ron Coleman of Comp Cams. The two companies share an owner and one PR employee, and are being run as competitors. However, before all of that ever...

Roadside Find: ’42 Brew Wagon

While on an afternoon trip to the local home improvement mega-store we nearly drove off the road when we spotted this awesome ’42 Chevy truck parked outside a little local watering hole. We can...

CraigsList Deal of the Week: Elcomino

Here’s another one of the recurring features you’ll find at FreiburgersJunkyard.com: the CraigsList Deal of the Week. It was supposed to go live first thing this morning with similar...

Friday Excuse to go Home Early and Drink: The Seemingly Imminent Death of Pontiac

This weekly feature will give you plenty of reason to click the shut-down button on your work computer and drain a few frosties stat. It’s going to be bad news people–deal. Automotive...

This Weekend: Daytona’s Turkey Run

Thanksgiving weekend us upon us and for most of the country that means your junk is sitting idle in the garage, under a tarp, or like us, in the elements. Note that we said most of the country. If...

Gearhead Destination: Indianapolis Motor Speedway

For the majority of the year it sits silent, a massive monument to man’s quest for speed. The month of May brings it to life, and on Memorial Day every year, a couple hundred thousand people...

Video of the Week: The Hot Rod Lincoln Jump

While we don’t produce and air our own videos any more, that won’t stop us from sharing some of the best gearhead stuff we’ve found in our travels on the Web. Case in point: this...

Fryblogger: Gearhead Burbank Revisited

I don’t think I can top Brian this week. His Barnstormin’-column tirade about how the Nurburgring rage is symbolic of the anti-enthusiast problem with late-model marketing sparked a few...

Montoya Picks NASCAR Over F1. Really.

Juan Pablo Montoya, Formula One driver turned NASCAR left-turner, told the media that he had been offered Formula One rides and turned them all down. He was immediately whisked away to be drug tested...

Jim Wangers’ Big 3 Performance GTO…What Else?

Jim Wangers was the marketing guy behind the Pontiac GTO. We know he’s good at marketing because he’s managed to make a living off that fact for like 40 years. And the hits just keep on...