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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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HOW TO: Make a SIMPLE PLASTIC HAMMER FORM for Sheet Metal – Custom Dash For The Make It Kustom 1931 Model A Roadster

Karl has made several hammer forms on his YouTube Channel over the years and they are WAY easier and cooler than I ever realized. I never had put much thought into it, but didn’t realize how...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A Custom Forward Tilting Hood From Spare Parks And Scrap In The Shop

In the next installment on the GMC Roadster Pickup build there is some more welding going on, as Brent works on the hood and making his own forward tilting mechanism from parts, pieces, and scrap...

1974 Dodge BIG BLOCK Shortbed Truck! A Mortske Budget Friendly Transformation Resulting In One Cool Mopar Muscle Truck!

A 1974 square body Dodge like this is always fun to see, but a grandpa owned ride like this isn’t very common anymore. I mean this thing was clean and grandpa perfect, and then Mortske got a...

John at Not Stock Photo Shows Us Around Murray Kustom Rods Fort Worth Texas – Whats in the Shop + Photoshoot with His Custom 61 Cadillac

John Jackson from Not Stock Photo has been shooting some pretty sexy cover shots and car features and that means being on location and getting the car from all the angles. While we dig John’s...

Featured Product: Simpson Off-Road Suspension Seats. Containment, Control, and Comfort From These High Tech But Affordable Seats.

These new suspension seats from Simpson are just what you need for your Side by Side, UTV, rock crawler, mud truck, or desert racer. With high strength, suspension, and containment there is no...

This 1961 Bel Air BUBBLE TOP was saved from CRUSHER by Puddin! Some assembly required!!!

While we love walking around wrecking yards full of classic cars, it’s almost cooler to walk around a normal late model wrecking yard and find some gem of a muscle car or classic hidden off in...

Sideways and Flying! Monza Plus Porsche 911 Race Car Plus Talent Equals Epic Video

An Italian race track, a German car, a British driver. As it turns out, that’s a magical combination for making a killer video and we bet that you will agree with us after seeing the footage...

Listen To The Awesome Noise Of The Famed Novi V8 Indy Car Engine In This 1963 Recording – So Cool!

This is a literal trip back in history. The other day I posted a photo of a Novi V8 on my Instagram page (@brianlohnes) and people went nuts over it. Basically two Offy four cylinders joined a common...

Cool Video: This Inside Look At A Formula 5000 Race Team In England Is Awesome – See The Car Built, Tested, and Raced!

We have run several videos featuring classic Formula 5000 cars over the last year or so. Formula 5000 is my favorite old class of open wheel cars. I think that they mix the great looks of 1970s era...

Fame And Terror At 200mph: This 1964 Sports Illustrated Profile Of Don Garlits Is Incredible

(Photo and excerpt from Sports Illustrated) – As a guy who like to read, there are few things out there that spin my crank harder than checking our old features in Sports Illustrated their...

Vice Grip Garage Christmas Special Video: We Almost ROLLED A School Bus While Riding FURNITURE ON WHEELS!

So you take a perfectly good school bus, remove all the seats, decorate the inside for Christmas, and then put a bunch of furniture in it and throw a Christmas party on wheels. What could possibly go...

Hot Rod Power Tour West With Newbern And The Gang. Hot Rods, Drag Racing, New Cars, And More!

All your favorite Motor Trend celebs were on hand for the inaugural Hot Rod Power Tour West and here is video fun from Newbern. He hung out with Freiburger, Dulcich, Lucky Costa, Cotten, And Alex...

Project Farm Is Featuring The 10 Worst Items Ever Tested? Let’s Find Out What They Are And How Bad They Were!

Project Farm and the Torque Test Channel are two of our favorite tool testing YouTube channels and we feature their videos pretty regularly because they are thorough and entertaining. But we all know...

Fireballs! Finnegan’s Day Of Track Testing Ends With A Car Burning To The Ground, But It Isn’t His Despite Blasphemi’s New Fire Breathing Ways.

Finnegan is back at  with some great testing in Blasphemi. With more power, a newly upgraded and rebuilt transmission, and some other cool upgrades, this sucker should be quicker and more consistent...