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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: Here Are The NSRA Nostalgia Nationals 2026 LIVE From Santa Pod!

Santa Pod’s National Street Rod Association Nostalgia Nationals are live right here! And thanks to the awesome streaming team at Santa Pod, you can watch live from all over the world for free. You...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Our 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Keep Coming! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

Here’s gallery #3, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park...

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FREE LIVE IMSA RACING FROM WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA! Michelin Pilot Challenge, Mustang Challenge, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, And More!

Here we go. The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series is visiting Laguna Seca, one of the most famous race tracks in the country! We’re talking the Michelin Pilot...

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Road Racing Livestream From Croft In The UK: The British Automobile Racing Club At Croft Circuit LIVE May 2-3

It’s time for more road racing in Croft! This weekend has the British Automobile Racing Club back at it again with fun racing action at Croft Circuit just outside of Darlington in the Northern UK....

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FREE LIVESTREAM: GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS 2026 At Brands Hatch

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here from the UK! We dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to...

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THE ULTIMATE JUNKYARD 5.3L SHOOTOUT. 512-HP 5.3L VS 542-HP 5.3L-WHICH ONE REALLY WORKS BEST?

If all you knew about these two engines was the final peak horsepower number, there isn’t anyone reading who wouldn’t choose the 542 horsepower 5.3 in this stock bottom end NA shootout....

Worlds Worst 1957 Chevrolet: 10 Minute Floor Pan Install! 1 Man, No Lift, Rust Be Gone!

When Dan dragged this nasty 1957 Chevy home there was no doubt that it was rough, and we mean ROUGH. So much rust, so much nastiness, and so much patching required. He did a lot of work using good...

Torque Test Channel’s TOP 10 TOOLS of 2023: Here’s The List Of Tools You’ve Been Waiting For! See If Your Favorites Are On The List!

We’re tool nuts around here and you regulars know that we love how thorough the Torque Test Channel is at testing tools we need. With lifetime tool rankings, legit testing methods, and an...

Zephyr Chop Part 7: How To TIG WELD Sheet Metal – LESS WARPING When There Is No Access

But you can’t TIG weld body panels if you can’t get to both sides of them! At least that is what some metal shapers will say, and in their defense there are reasons for making that statement....

Puddin Helps Slicks With This ABANDONED 1967 Pontiac Firebird. WILL IT RUN after 27 years Of Sitting?

We’ve gotten so used to Puddin saving trucks of all kinds, that when he saves a car it feels a little weird. I mean he did save a cool Chevy wagon earlier this year, and that was neat, but a...

How To Index Your Bellhousing At Home: It Is Simple And Easy With Just A Few Tools, And Will Ensure Your Manual Trans Works Flawlessly

You ever fight with a manual transmission that just doesn’t want to slide into the clutch and bellhousing? Or one that just never seems to shift as nicely as you’d like? Or one that makes...

Holley’s New Product Showcase at SEMA 2023 – Check Out All The Cool New Parts And Accessories They Debuted This Year!

The Holley Performance brands were out in force at the 2023 SEMA Show, where they debuted a bunch of new products, and won several awards. We’re talking everything from fuel system components...

Check Out Newbern’s Pro Charged 1991 Fox Body Mustang That Is Going To Be His Drag And Drive Machine. Plus Work On The Baja Bug!

When Newbern decided he wanted to build a Drag and Drive car, he grabbed hold of this clean little notch Fox Body Mustang and promptly set it up with a ProCharged LS under the hood. What’s...

The Best WILD Drag Racing RIDES from Urban Hillbilly Videos Last Year At The Track

When Sean Melton sends me a link to a video featuring the wildest rides of 2023, and makes a point to remind me that everyone in the cars got out of them and were okay, you know it is going to be...

This 3000 Horsepower, Coyote Powered, Ford Galaxie is Already FAST AS F*%& on it’s First Passes! Watch This!

At a Street Car Takeover event, like the one in Charlotte, a car like this Galaxie stands out. Not only because it is a big older body style, but because despite it’s size it is running a 5.0...

Drag Ads and High Performance Print Screamers From the 1960s and 70s

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s there weren’t all that many places to get your timely drag racing news from. Drag News, National Dragster, and several smaller regional papers like East...

This Ancient GN JAP V8 Powered Car Has A Wooden Frame And Gets Driven – A 100+ Year Old Hot Rod!

So before you think we’re making an ill-advised reference to Japan, we’re not. This is a 100+ year old GN cycle car that is powered by nearly as ancient JAP (JA Prestwich) V8 that was...

Bathurst 1969 Video: At The Peak Of Total Performance Ford and Holden Fight An Aussie War

The battle of Ford vs Ferrari may have been the highest profile example of Ford’s “Total Performance” era but this was not just a fight between Ford and the Italian company, it was...

The Day The Bridge Fell Down: Amazing Footage From The Tacoma Narrows Bridge – An Engineering Failure For The Ages

Of all the forces in the world one would blame for twisting what was the world’s 3rd longest suspension bridge into a pretzel and causing its collapse, wind would likely not be one of the but...