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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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PRI Show Photos: The Biggest Race Parts Trade Show On The Planet

We’re here for the 2022 PRI Show in Indy and man there is cool stuff going on. Thursday we got to the show, judged the featured products, saw some awesome stuff we’d never seen before,...

Lions Classic Car Show Photos: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, Trucks, And More In Morris Illinois

Here’s our next gallery of photos from this awesome little town, that held three shows in two days! I’m impressed. And if you missed the previous photos, use the link below to check them...

This Angry Little Turbocharged VW Engine Is The Hot Ticket To Make Your Beetle Fly

The enduring dedication and obsession that VW fans have for making horsepower out of an engine platform that was initially designed to make 36hp is awesome. It speaks to the nature of hot rodding and...

Did Tin Soldier Race Cars Build The Perfect X275 Drag Car?! This 1987 Buick Grand National Is Something Else

This Tin Soldiers Race Cars built 1987 Grand National was the talk of the PRI show in Indy last week and for good reason. This is Dave Fiscus’ newest ride and man is it cool as hell. If you are...

Jay Leno Speaks Out For First Time Since Major Burn Accident

When news reports came out a few weeks ago, that Jay Leno had been burned in a fire at his shop, everyone in the car world was worried. He’s an icon, a hell of a human being, and he’s...

Lions Classic Car Show Photos: So Many Great Cars, Trucks, And Classics In This Little Illinois Town

Here’s our next gallery of photos from this awesome little town, that held three shows in two days! I’m impressed. And if you missed the previous photos, use the link below to check them...

PRI Show Photos: More Parts, Race Cars, And More From Indy

We’re here for the 2022 PRI Show in Indy and man there is cool stuff going on. Thursday we got to the show, judged the featured products, saw some awesome stuff we’d never seen before,...

Vice Grip Garage Pontiac GTO Project: It’s Done But Will It Make The 800 Mile Drive To Florida?

If you have missed the first three episodes of this build, that’s okay because we have a link below that will let you see them all. In this episode, the car is done and ready to go back to the...

Flying Sparks Garage Budget Corvette build?! They Are Going All In!

Budget is a loose term, and when buying a C6 Corvette that isn’t from an auction you are likely going to pay real money even if it’s the best deal around. But to get those deals you are...

This ABANDONED 1958 Apache Gets A CHEAP Makeover. BUT WILL IT DRIVE?!

While I dig the “Will it run?” videos, I sure do like the ones that take it a step further and do a makeover on them. I’m not talking about full restoration, I’m just talking...

The Alfarrari Project: Making And Installing A New Transmission Tunnel

Now that the engine and trans have been fitted, and permanent mounts for them made, it’s time to figure out how to cover it all up and fit a shifter to it inside the car. It’s Trans Tunnel...

FORGOTTEN Dodge Police Car – TURBO Engine Assembly!

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...

New Product: Halibrand 5-Spoke for 1973-1987 GM C10 Squarebody Trucks

Dude… Look at these new 5-spoke wheels from Halibrand that are specifically sized to fit squarebody GM trucks! They take all the guesswork out of fitting wheels and tires on your classic truck...

This 1977 Video Featuring Street Racing In Nova Scotia Features Fast Cars And The Stinkbug Stance

While we normally do not spend a lot of time posting street racing videos here, we figured one from 40 years ago is pretty far past the statute of limitations and frankly it shows off the hot rodding...