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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(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 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of 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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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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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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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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100 Hot Rod Roadsters. Three Days. One Incredible Adventure. This Road Trip Is Full of Collections, Cruises, And Memories Like None Other.

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage...

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Innovation In Action Video: How Dodge Stepped Up And Produced The Sperry Gyro-Compass During WWII

The stories of innovation, engineering, and manufacturing heroism during WWII are legend and will be until the end of time. From Ford producing airplanes by the gripload to GM cranking out trucks and...

This Hill Climb Racing Video From Scotland Will Blow Your Mind – Incredible Speed and Skill At The Donue Hill Climb

We’ve always loved looking at hill climb footage over the years but this right here makes the majority of the guys we have showed in the past look like they were cruising barcaloungers through...

Underrated Fun Machine: This Period Review Of The 2003 Dodge Neon SRT-4 Is A Reminder That Cheap, Fun Cars Existed

I remember scoffing the first time I saw one of of these cars at the drag strip. It had that wing. It had the semi-goofy looks of a Neon, and it was raspy loud. And then it was clicking off ETs in...

Fun History: This Look Back At The Designer Series Cars Of The 1970s Is Interesting, Gaudy, and Cool

If there is one thing that people think of when it comes to the 1970s it’s the aesthetic of the decade. The colors, the overwrought size of stuff, the gilding of otherwise ugly stuff to make it...

Leadoff Act: The 1987 Chevy Beretta Was A Youthful Sporting Shot From A Company Reshaping Itself At The Time

For 10 years, if you did not want a Camaro or a Corvette your other option for a coupe from Chevrolet was the Beretta. This two-door version of the Corsica was made in several different models,...

You Hit What?! Cale Yarborough Smacks The Track Fire Truck Head-On At Richmond 1976 – Radio Broadcast Audio and Cale Video!

There are fun racing stories and then there are FUN racing stories with historical backup. Lots of the stuff that the “old guys” tell is colorful, wacky, and staunchly believed despite...

Take A Flat Out Ride Inside A Bonkers Fast Chevron B8 Around Goodwood

The Chevron B8 may not exactly be a household name in the minds of American racing fans and we can’t blame ’em. Only 44 were built over the span of a couple years in the late 1960s. They...

4.8L VS THE WORLD! 4.8L (WITH 7 PSI) VS 5.3L VS 6.0L VS 383 VS 408! WHO MAKES THE MOST TORQUE?

There is no replacement for displacement! This is a truth that has been beat into us since our earliest days as hot rodders. And it is true. If you take like engines with two different displacements,...

The Class Racer Revival 2.0 Is LIVE! Stock Eliminator, Super Stockers, And Competition Eliminator Take Over St. Louis!

Big money bracket racing is alive and well all across the country, and so is heads up drag racing of all flavors, but the class racers that compete in Stock, Super Stock, and Competition Eliminator...

ABANDONED 29 YEARS! Will This 1975 Dodge Truck RUN and DRIVE Again? Dylan McCool Thinks He Can Make It Happen.

Dylan is back at it, with another old find that has spent a ton of years sitting in the treeline, waiting for someone to remember they left it there. This 1975 Dodge D100 is a looker too! LOL Okay,...

John Deer Race Truck, 2000 HP Stick C6 + THE 1320 CREW RACES! & MORE! (Race Week 2.0 Day 1)

It’s the fall drag and drive season and that means it is time for Race Week! Also known as Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0, or Race Week 2.0, this is the second event of the year for the Rocky...

Watch Pete at HED Get LeRoy’s Motor Together!! Assembling Cleetus Mcfarland’s Engine For LeRoy the Savage.

For the last year, Peter Harrell, the owner of Harrell Engine and Dyno in Mooresville, North Carolina, has been tuning on Cleetus McFarland’s rowdiest cars. We’re talking about Mullet of...

Watch This Upside Down (But Right Side Up?) Ranger V770 12-Cylinder Engine Run and Spit Fire!

The Ranger V770 12-cylinder engine was a stalwart power plant for a slew of airplanes that included a bunch of trainers that were used to get pilots ready for war during WWII. A single overhead...

This 1973 Jeep J2000 Truck Sales Promotional Film Has Us Looking For A Dealer – 70s Greatness

It is pretty hard to argue against the overt coolness of the Wagoneers and J-trucks of the early 1970s. They were really well built, intentioned to get out there into the wild, and they look great as...