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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Iron Trap Garage: Saving A 1940 Chevy Coupe From A Collapsing Barn!!

This car has been sitting in the barn for 70 years! Yes, 70 years! When it was parked all those years ago it then nearly died when the barn tried to fall in on it, but thankfully was braced. But how...

Vice Grip Garage: Forgotten Old Chevrolet Service Truck – Will it RUN AND DRIVE Home?

In typical Derek fashion, he’s having to get another ride up and running and ready to see if it can possibly make it home. The fun part about this square-body Chevy pickup is that he had never...

Weird Science: Watch These Guys Spool A Turbocharger With A 60,000 PSI Water Jet And Fill A Weather Balloon With It!

This is one of those things that makes absolutely no sense but is really kind of interesting and fun to watch. You are going to see some guys who have a huge industrial water jet mount a turbocharger...

The Corvette Game Changer: 22 Years Ago Chevrolet Brought Back The Z06 Name In A Big Way

As much as everyone geeked out at the debut of the C5 Corvette in 1997, the hysteria seemed to grab another gear in 2001 when the Z06 was debuted. The public knew that there was some sort of awesome...

BIG BLOCK MALIBU MAKES IT’S FIRST PASS @Redlineraceway Caddo Mills TX

Our pal Ryan Wing, Street Car Chronicles on YouTube, was out at a charity car show and race at Redline Raceway just east of Dallas and decided that Mike Honcho, his big block powered Malibu, needed...

HOW TO MAKE BIG BLOCK FORD POWER PART 2! 514, 521 AND 557 CUBE BBF STROKERS. 700-1,100 HP COMBOS!

Big Block Fords can make big power! I know, it seems like nobody talks about them, but it is true. We recently shared Richard’s series on simple power combos that make up to 600 horsepower with...

NOT A BOAT! 1000HP On Water – SWAMP BUGGY Racing in Florida With 1320Video!

Back when Diamond P and TNN covered Swamp Buggy Racing in Florida they would have a whole “season” of racing coverage. The truth is that they only had a couple races each year, but with...

Daddy Dave’s Audi Hits The Track: Insane 1st Hit In His New Audi Race Car!

Dave is back with the Audi again. Last week we showed you dyno testing the new car and now he’s at the track with it! I love this car, it looks so cool on camera and in person, and the color is...

Who Makes The Best Ratchet (Round 2)? Let’s Settle This! Snap On, Proto, Matco, FACOM, Gedore, Nepros, Crescent

In the US these are called ratchets. Some places call them ratchet wrenches, which gets confusing here because there are ratcheting wrenches, like the ones made popular by Gear Wrench several years...

FINNEGAN STRESSING OUT! BOUGHT HIS WIFE A CAR FROM AN ONLINE AUCTION!!

Uh oh…. Did Finnegan buy a lemon while trying to buy something nice for his wife? He bought a super clean looking CRX, that I assume she liked before he started bidding, but is it all the...

Huge Muscle Car And Truck Restoration Parts Warehouse Auction May 17! 1960’s And 1970’s Chevrolet, Mopar, Ford, Pontiac, And More!

If you are in the market for muscle car restoration parts, including a ton of sheet metal parts, for GM Cars and Trucks, plus Mopars, and Fords, then this auction right here could be for you! Check...

The 1955 Chevy Apache Pickup Rebuild: Firing Up The 6.8 LS3 For The First Time!

The gang has been back at it, and in this video, they are finally getting the truck to actually run! Will it be ready for the trip and actually make it? There have been some great videos and lots of...

Milwaukee’s New Line Wrenches vs Professional Tools Mac, Snap-On, Proto

Line wrenches, are one of those tools you don’t think you need until you screw up a line fitting because you only have an end wrench. I have a bunch, from a few different brands, and can tell...

Laguna Seca Hosts The Ultimate Street Cars: Part 2 – We Get To The Points On OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Series

(Words by Jim McIlvaine) There are seven events that make up OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car presented by Advance Auto Parts. Once those events are run, the top contenders are...