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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Unreal! Now the Government Wants to Use Tax $ To Crush Newer SUVs. SEMA is On It

Breaking news from a few minutes ago. Here’s the SEMA release: POLITICIANS WANT TO USE TAX DOLLARS TO CRUSH NEWER MODEL TRUCKS AND SUVS SEMA Warns Lawmakers that Boondoggle Will Cost American...

65 Pontiac Wagon Trip a Success

Nine days ago we told you that I’d be making a trip north to Sacramento to pick up a ’65 Pontiac wagon that our friend Todd at MSD had scored sight-unseen on eBay. I came home from the...

Nitro Funny Car Association Forges Ahead

If you can get past the horrific news regarding the economy that seems to be coming faster and harder each day, there are some gems of goodness showing up in the racing world. The Nitro Funny Car...

The Violation Game: Square-Tube Headers

I must admit that I shot this photo with the full intention of declaring these square-tube headers a full-on violation. Yet I admit to cold feet. On the violation side of the scale is the fact that,...

Hurst Viper Breaks the Bank at B-J

As previously reported, Hurst is going back to the signature-car biz with the Hurst 50th Anniversary Viper. Like Hurst’s anniversary, not Viper’s…but it’s a natural , right?...

Site of the Week: Hemi.com

With all the craptastic talk lately of Chrysler teaming up with (aka selling its soul to) Fiat, we decided that it was time to reaffirm our faith in the brand by harking back to its most glorious...

Book Review: Racing Safely, Living Dangerously

Here’s one of those little books that no one knows about but everyone should read. Racing Safely, Living Dangerously was published back in 2001. It’s the autobiography of Bill Simpson...

Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: VW Bug Motorhome

The reality of a VW Bug motorhome itself is plain bliss, but when you add the homegrown art of the side, this is thing is pure genius. I spotted this Beetle camper during my honeymoon road trip in...

Barnstormin’: Wrecks

In my time as a race track announcer, race director, and general racing facility nuisance, I’ve seen more than my fair share of carnage on the track. Each incident has its own file folder in my...

Upgrades for Lebanon Valley Dragway

Great news for Northeast-area drag racers, Lebanon Valley Dragway is undergoing some nice touchups this off season. The track has been resurfaced and the restrooms are being rebuilt and brought out...

eBay Pick of the Week, Bonus Edition: Dual-Plug Hemi

We couldn’t let this one slip by unnoticed, so today you’re getting a second eBay Pick. Long story short, this is a dual-plug-headed, magnesium-crossram-equipped, original-carb-wearing,...

The Top 11 Reasons I’ll Use to Convince My Wife That I Need Freiburger’s Javelin

With the Red Ball Express adventure looming closer every day, I need to get cracking about breaking the news to my loving (currently) wife that the red, white and blue, former dirt-track racing...

Breaking News: Freiburger Going Back to Hot Rod Magazine

I had hoped to control this a bit more, but the word is spreading like wildfire so I might as well “officially” break the news to you here first: I’m going back to Hot Rod magazine...

eBay Pick of the Week: 2007 Pump Gas Drags Decals…Hmmm

This is curious. We found a seller on eBay who is peddling 2007 Hot Rod Pump Gas Drags windshield decals, and it seems he has at least a small stock of them. We’re not sure who this is or how...