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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Iconic Racer And Team Owner Don Schumacher Dies At 79: Motorsports Icon Don Schumacher Leaves Lasting Legacy After Battle with Cancer

JUPITER, Fla. (December 21, 2023) – It is with heavy hearts that the Schumacher family announce the passing of motorsports icon Don Schumacher. The NHRA team owner and Funny Car pioneer had spent...

Don Schumacher, Transformational Force In Professional Drag Racing As Boss, Owner, Manufacturer Dies At 79

Don Schumacher, a one man force of nature in the sport of NHRA drag racing for more than 50 years passed away on December 20th due to illness related to a protracted cancer battle, he was 79 years...

Engine 101: How to assemble an LS top end, including heads, valvetrain, intake, and valve covers!

Putting an engine together can be a pretty intense and difficult task depending on the engine and on the tools that you may or may not have. But, luckily, an LS engine is one of the easier ones to...

Vice Grip Garage Gives This 1948 Studebaker Champion Its First WASH & BUFF In 47 Years! Budget Transformation!

I love it when you can take a solid old car and give it a little bit of a spit shine and some careful touches and make it look like something truly special. So when I saw this latest video from Derek...

Same Blower, Different Engines: 3.8L V6 VS 4.8L V8 CHEAP M90 BLOWER TEST. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RUN THE SAME BLOWER ON BOTH MOTORS?

Richard has been turning the internet on its ear recently with his M90 Supercharger tests. He’s built an adapter plate to run one on a 4.8 LS and has obviously been testing them on the 3.8...

World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet: The ROTTEN 57 Chevy Gets Her Final Patch Panel – PLUS Homemade LS Fender Well Headers

As if there wasn’t enough rusty sheet metal replaced already, Dan has got one more spot to fix on what he’s calling the World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet. In fact, he even goes so far as...

This Profile of GATR Racer Shawna Robinson Shows How Wild Big Rig Speedway Racing Was In The 1980s

While this video is centered around the lone female driver in the Great American Truck Racing Series (Shawna Robinson) is is a spectacular look at the series as it was in 1985. The truck were still...

Video: Watch And Listen To This Little Toyota V8 Make 510hp At More Than 8,100 RPM

The Toyota 1UZ-FE engine is interesting because when it debuted in the late 1990s people immediately saw the potential for it to be a strong horsepower maker. It has six bolt mains, an over-square...

Smashing, Baby! This British Review Of The Then New 1974 Lotus Elite Is Glowing To Say The Least

The 1970s were not a great time in the world of British automotive manufacturing. In fact, their domestic car industry kind of came to pieces during that period and never fully bounced back. Sure...

Abandoned 1984 Chevrolet 1 Ton 454 Big Block! Will Mortske Make It Run?!? 4×4 Square Body Transformation.

Mortske is back at it, this time working on a big block truck that he thought he should get in order to have a tow rig. Of course other projects came along and it got pushed to the side, but in...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP Transformation! Paint match, Buff Job, Trim Polish, Body Alignment, and MORE!

Today’s update on the budget shop truck build, which includes a clean long bed to short bed conversion, features some spit shining, polishing, and buffing to make it look as good as possible...

Burnouts, Burnouts, and More Burnouts: Buick G-Body Burnout Greatness From The AutotopiaLA Crew

If you are a fan of the Buick G-Body then you are going to love this video from AutotopiaLA. These folks are into burnouts and donuts which makes them our people for sure. Just check out this video...

Westen Champlin Took His 2000HP Mustang to a Burnout Contest – Will It Live Through It? His Track Record Isn’t Great So Far!

When Westen sends it, he tries to send it hard. This past year he’s had some success with some of his projects, but he also had a few real hard times in the burnout pit. So when he said he was...

Crushing History – The Hot Rod Hoarder Features This ’63 Impala Z11 That Didn’t Survive the ’70s

We seriously dig vintage drag cars, and especially those with cool history. Lucky for us, Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is a certifiable bad ass when it comes to talking about old race cars...