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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Single Seat Race Car Is Done And Goes Racing: 10 Days in the Dust – Red Dust Revival 2022

The Midnight Special is going for its maiden voyage and is off and running! Here is the first outing and man this thing is cool as hell! Bennett’s Customs is an Australian traditional hot rod...

Halfass Kustoms 1955 Chevrolet NAPCO 4×4 Project: Final Rust Repair, Insulating The Cab, And Installing The Underseat Heat

In this latest installment of the NAPCO Clone build, Brent is working on the final floor rust fix, the insulation inside the cab, and putting a custom heater under the seat. If you have missed any of...

Ian Johnson Is Tearing His New Bomber Fab Trail Chassis Apart, But Why?

Why the hell is Ian tearing apart the buggy that he just finished putting together for a trail ride? He says he loves it, but it’s got a couple of things he wants to make some adjustments to,...

BANGshift Question Of The Day: Would You Take A Ride In A Flying Car Like This?

The idea of flying cars is nothing new, but they have been changing from looking like a car and a plane had a baby, to looking like a giant multi-rotor drone with a car hanging from it. So since...

Chronicles of BeerMoney: Episode 1 – 6 Things You Gotta Have To Be Successful In No Prep Drag Racing

No-Prep drag racing is ultra simple, in principle. I mean all you need to know is that the track doesn’t have any glue or prep done to it before the race starts so as to mimic the streets as...

Donut Derelicts: SoCal’s Iconic Cruise In Photos Right Here!

Here’s our second gallery of photos from this month’s Donut Derelicts Cruise In. It’s an early morning SoCal thing, but man it’s cool. (Photos by Wes Allison) It’s beginning...

PRI Show Photos: Here’s Our Last Gallery Of Photos To Share, PLUS A Link To All The Rest!

Here it is, our last gallery of photos from the PRI Show in Indy this year. It was a good one, and hard to capture all of it, but it was fun and we got a lot. If you missed any of our previous...

Dyno Video: Hunting Down Problems At 6,000 RPM In A 3,000hp Diesel Truck – This Is Wild

Lavon Miller, his brothers, and the rest of the crew at Firepunk Diesel are well known and much feared in the diesel competition community nationwide. From his early days at the Diesel Power...

Cold Start Education: This Video Tells The Tale Of Why Your Car Sounds and Acts Different On The Cold Start Cycle

The Jason Cammisa hosted series, “Know It All” has been one of the best additions to the Hagerty programming lineup this year. We have showed you previous episodes about stuff like AWD...

Hot Rodding 101: What To Look For When Buying and Building A Ford Flathead – Hot Rod Engines

The guys at Iron Trap Garage started a Hot Rodding 101 series a couple of years ago that we’ve watched, but we never shared it with you guys until now. They just put up a new one today so we...

1320Video Shares The SUPERBOWL Of Street Racing (Texas Streets: The Hunt DVD)

This is one you must collect, the Texas Streets: The Hunt DVD from 1320Video is showing some of the best and baddest street race action from Texas, back when it all really kicked off in 2014....

Ready to Fire! McCool Monday LIVE With The Forgotten Dodge Police Car

We’ve been sharing the videos from this forgotten cop car video series, and some of them are pretty funny. This one here is going to be interesting because it’s TURBO TIME! Turbos make everything...

Newbern Buys Back His Very First Car, After 25 Years! 1964 Impala Greatness

Most car guys have a story about their first car, or at least their first cool car, that they sold at some point and wish they could get back. Sometimes the memory of the car is better than the...

THIS WAS HELL! FINNEGAN’S HOT ROD DRAG WEEK 2022 MOVIE: PART 1

We all watched the Finnegan’s Garage videos from Hot Rod Drag Week 2022, where the trials and tribulations of drag and drive events all reared their ugly heads in just a couple days, but this...