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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! 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 Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Watch This Naturally Aspirated Honda Make More Than 400hp On A 50/50 Nitromethane Blend!

This right here is nasty and proof that nitromethane is the elixir of the horsepower gods no matter what type of engine it is being burned in. The video we see below is cringeworthy at the start but...

HOW MUCH POWER DO ACCESSORIES ROB FROM YOUR 4.8L LS MOTOR? STOCK ACCESSORIES v ELECTRIC WATER PUMP!

So how much power does it really take to spin the accessories on your LS engine? Is an electric water pump actually giving you real horsepower gains? How about that alternator and power steering? Or...

Influence and Impact E9 – SEMA Show History, Trends, and Bluetooth Driveshafts. What Is The SEMA Show Really All About?

The SEMA Show in Las Vegas is arguably one of the least understood events of the year. I say this, because multiple people each year talk to me about a car or truck that their buddy owns or built...

Even More PRI Show Photos: The Cars And Parts Of The 2023 PRI Show Were Like My Christmas List Come True. Check Them Out.

We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff that I’d really love to see under the tree or under the hood in 2024. The PRI Show is where everyone...

Two Minutes of Cringe: This 1980s Thank You Video From Pontiac Fiero Plant Is Hilariously Weird

We know their heart was in the right place. We know the intention of this video was to thank and encourage a specific Pontiac dealer to keep pressing Fiero sales. We understand that these people are...

Watch Bob Wollek Dominate An IMSA Race At Sears Point And Then Wreck Horribly In The 1980s

Many people only know Bob Wollek from just a single weird encounter he once had with a tv reporter during the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1985. Aggravated that he had been swapped out for team driver AJ...

The Lombard Steam Log Hauler History And Video Of A Restored Beast Operating!

The Lombard Steam Log Hauler was an invention that came from the mind of a talented Maine mechanic named Alvin Lombard. Logging was and is extremely tough and dangerous work. Even after all the...

Hydrazine Video: This US Air Force Film Talks About The Dangers Of Drag Racing’s Most Exotic Fuel – Unreal!

We all know the stories about hydrazine and drag racing. The hypergolic monopropellant used in rockets was used by hot rodders in the 1960s to spice up the nitromethane they were using in their...

Dylan McCool Got A Hold Of RICHARD PETTY’S Forgotten Cadillac Limo – WILL IT RUN After 28 Years?

Dylan McCool recently got a hold of Richard Petty’s 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Limo and he’s trying to make that bad boy run again! Yeah, that Richard Petty, number 43 himself, who is...

Dave Newbern’s ProCharged Fox Body Mustang Drag And Drive Car Gets Some Upgrades For Bigger Power!

Newbern’s Fox Body Mustang is his first, and while the ProCharged 5.3 made okay power as is, he knows he needs more power and so with the direction of some pretty smart folks, he’s...

Stock And Super Stock Mud Racing Video: Killer Video From The Mud Racers Association Battling It Out In Missouri

I dig all kinds of side by side racing and that means that sand drags, mud drags, and dirt drags are pretty fun to watch. In this video from the gang at Back Channel Productions, we’re going to...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – WILL IT RUN BETTER!? New Valve seals and much more!

Today’s update on the budget shop truck build, which includes a clean long bed to short bed conversion, has some work going on to make this thing have less blowby and more so that it runs...

Kevin From KSR Performance And Fabrication Says “This Is The Worst Engine Destruction I Have Ever Had!!”

I talked to Kevin at the PRI Show and asked him about all the carnage in this video and then we laughed a lot. Why? Well it turns out that if you take a stock bottom end LS engine and try to spin it...

PRI Show Photos: The Cars And Parts Of The 2023 PRI Show Were Like My Christmas List Come True. Check Them Out.

We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff that I’d really love to see under the tree or under the hood in 2024. The PRI Show is where everyone...