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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Division 7 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series From In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip – Saturday

We’ve got more live drag racing coming to you from NHRA’s Division 7! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Division 2 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series From Gainesville Raceway – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from NHRA’s Division 2! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like...

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Exhaust Insulation Tech: Installing Embossed Stainless Exhaust Heat Shielding On A Turbocharged Drag And Drive Beast!

I’ve been doing drag and drive events for 21 years now, and have been very vocal over the years about what it takes to be successful when it comes to completing these events and having a good...

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British Touring Car Championship Legends Roundtable at Goodwood: Hear The Untold stories from the Super Touring glory years!

I know that we live in a time where it seems like we get to see every bit of racing that we want to, but the truth is that a ton of it is behind a pay wall now that means seeing all of it is...

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Suspension Tech: Check Out This Simple Trick to Removing a Rubber Suspension Bushing With Tools You Have, And Way Less Work!

I’ve use a lot of different methods for removing suspension bushings, but this one makes me question whether one of those methods was ever done correctly. I remember removing bushings by...

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Fuel Altered Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing’s Wildest Rides!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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EXTREME TOP FUEL – INCREDIBLE NITRO AMERICA FILM FROM THE NORTHERN NATIONALS US 131 MOTORSPORTS PARK

The first time I went to US131 was during Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week in 2005. We ended the week there, with a bunch of rain, but ultimately waited it out and finished on a dry race track....

The TMI Trim Awards From The SEMA Show. 2023’s Best Car and Truck Interiors From The Show.

Many folks think that the SEMA show is all about the cars that are on display, when in fact it is really about the parts and pieces that are on display ON or IN those vehicles. With that said, it is...

Derek From Vice Grip Garage WON 1st Half At The Freedom Factory but BLEW UP Charlotte! And You Won’t Believe How?

Leading laps at the Freedom Factory for the 2.4 hours of Le Mullets is awesome, but blowing up the big block in the burnout truck was certainly not on the menu for this particular weekend of fun for...

Video: Here’s The Best Twin Stick Big Rig Video We Have Ever Seen – Explanation and Operation

Over the years we have showed you a multitude of videos featuring truckers running twin-stick big rigs down the road. Some of them have been funny, some of them painful, but none of them have been...

Soaking Horsepower: This Film From The 1953 Gold Cup Regatta Shows Roaring Hydroplanes In Action!

While we’re not the biggest boat racing fans in the world here we do love old hydroplanes. They looked like proper waterborne hot rods, kind of like the Batmobile, and they always had massive...

Amazing Video: Watch A Guy Turn An Automotive Air Conditioning Compressor Into A Running 3-Cylinder Engine!

A short while back we showed you a wild video where a guy took the little compressor from a refrigerator and made it into a little working engine. It as fun and crazy and required a lot of brains to...

Our Street Machine Nationals Photos Keep Coming: Hot Rods, Customs, Trucks And So Much More!

Here’s another gallery of photos from the Street Machine Nationals, and if you missed any of our previous photos there is a link below that will take you to all of them as well. (Words and Photos...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – Gas Tank, Brakes, Driveshaft, And MORE!

In this latest video there are lots of other details getting handled, like a driveshaft, brakes, fuel system, and more. In the first video we shared the shortening of the bed and chassis to convert...

From Sniper EFI and NOS Nitrous to Entire Build – Ryan Jones’ 1966 Gulf Livery Mustang Feature From Ford Fest

Video Description: A standout car this year at Holley Ford Fest was Ryan Jones’ 1966 Gulf livery-inspired Mustang. This classic beauty, a family project with help from friends, was transformed...

Will The Iron Trap Garage Barn Find 1939 Ford Convertible Run After Sitting Abandoned For Years??

Well, the ultra rare 1939 Ford Convertible may be in better shape than the boys even thought, so they are thinking it might be worth seeing if this sucker will run and drive. Because they...

FREE LIVE Drag Racing! Fall FootBrake Frenzy #15 – Saturday

If you are looking for great side-by-side drag racing all weekend long, and you love door car drag cars, then we’ve got a race for you! Here’s the Fall Footbrake Frenzy, brought to you by our...

Old Tech: This 1940 Video About WWII Piston Aircraft Engines Is Awesome – Internal Engine Tech, History, More!

Warning, you have to be a hardcore dork to love this. Warning, you have to love engines to love this. Warning, you will love it. This video is a study in the typical types of aircraft engines seen by...

Drag Racing History Video: Scotty Cannon’s Controversial 1992 Lumina Pro Mod in Action

The IHRA created the Pro Modified drag racing class in 1990. Born from the Top Sportsman bracket racing category, the ever plucky IHRA recognized the wild popularity of the various quick eight and...

Extreme Engineering: Take A Ride Across The 120 Year Old, 800ft Tall Gokteik Viaduct Railroad Trestle

Our first reaction upon seeing the Goteik Viaduct train crossing was “no thank you” and then we read more about it and became enamored with its history so we’re kind of wanting to...