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Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors headquarters in Lincoln, NE is right across the parking lot from the Museum Of American Speed. Together, they put on a cars and coffee gathering...

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NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, And Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $50,000 Sunday

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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 LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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Video: The FoxJet Was The 1970s Mini-Corporate Jet That Was Set To Change The World, But Didn’t

There are certain ideas that come along which make perfect sense, seem to have the right people behind them, and then ultimately evaporate into nothing for varied reasons. Well, the FoxJet is kind of...

End Of The Line: This Video Review of The 1995 Corvette ZR-1 Shows The Pinnacle Version Of The Hot ‘Vette

All good things must come to an end, right? Corvette fans learned that in 1995 after Chevrolet announced that they’d produce a final run of less than 500 ZR-1s before shutting down that line...

The Charger, Part 8: Fixing Gauges Once And For All With Classic Instruments

In our last update on my Charger, I had just dragged my heat-soaked hind end from a 1,500-plus mile roadtrip to the Chrysler Carlisle Nats and back home again, with not one hint of trouble from our...

WHAT IS THE BEST LS INTAKE UNDER BOOST? SINGLE PLANE vs DUAL PLANE BLOW-THROUGH DISTRIBUTION TEST!

I’ll never forget the first time I was in a dyno cell while testing an engine with 8 oxygen sensors. Instead of just having one or two, which is the norm on most of what we work on around here,...

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...