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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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Rough Start: Grandpa’s Buick Can Be Your Budget Gran Sport!

When shopping for a vehicle to highlight in our Rough Start category, a combination of budget-friendly entry fee and potential build factor is taken into consideration. Historically, the mark was...

Ryan Tuerck shocks SEMA with 650hp 4cyl Toyota Stout…

This awesome little Toyota Stout had everyone talking inside the SEMA show this year because not only did it have a look like none other, but it had the beans to back it up. It makes 650 horsepower,...

HOW TO MAKE SUPERCHARGED SBC & BBC POWER-HOW MUCH HP DOES A PROCHARGER ADD TO A SBC OR BBC STROKER?

I’m a big fan of power adders. Turbos, nitrous, centrifugal superchargers, roots blowers, and more. In the case of our ProCharged 400 inch Blueprint small-block, we also mix them by adding some...

Who Makes The Best Annular Cutter? Fein, Milwaukee, DeWalt, Euroboor, Hougan, Hermes, S&F, Evolution, Steel Dragon

Annular cutters have been all the rage in the last couple of years as, like many tools, they have become much easier to find and much cheaper. If you are not familiar, they are similar to a hole saw...

Turning Back Time Car Show Photos: Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Trucks, And A Lot More.

(Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) At the end of July, Sycamore, Illlinois is the gathering spot for the Turning Back Time Car Show. The town is part of the extended Chicago Area, about 50 miles west,...

SEMA Show 2022 Photos: More Muscle Cars, Street Machines, And More!

Here’s our seventh gallery of photos from the SEMA Show, and more are on the way! It’s that time of year folks, trade show season. For those of us in the automotive and motorsports...

Perfect Storm: The Story Of How IndyCar Created Their Own Worst Nightmare In Las Vegas 2011

I remember watching the final race of the 2011 IndyCar season. I remember watching it to see if Dan Wheldon would win the $5-million bonus that he had been given the shot at. I remember watching...

CONTENT CREATOR LARRY CHEN SELECTED AS WINNER OF INAUGURAL SEMA AUTOMOTIVE INFLUENCER OF THE YEAR AWARD

— New award honors a content creator who has made a positive impact on the automotive industry and was presented at the 2022 SEMA Show Industry Awards Banquet — DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Nov....

Who Are These Non-Slip Wrenches Fooling? Icon v Snap-On, Milwaukee, Metrinch, Dewalt & More

Do these things even work? To be fair, I’ve never used any of the Non-Slip wrenches before that I know of, although some of the newer end wrenches I’ve seen in friends’ toolboxes do...

FORGOTTEN Dodge Police Car – Will It Run After 25 Years? McTaggart Is Drooling!

Dylan McCool and Bryan McTaggart have some very similar passions, and “old” 1970s and 1980s cop cars are one of them. So I know for a fact that when McT saw this latest video from Dylan...

SEMA Show 2022 Photos: Drag Cars, Show Cars, Trucks, And More!

Here’s our sixth gallery of photos from the SEMA Show, and more are on the way! It’s that time of year folks, trade show season. For those of us in the automotive and motorsports...

AACA Hershey Fall Swap Meet Car Show Photos: You Name It, It’s Here! Check Out Grippo’s Photos.

Here’s another gallery of photos from Joe Grippo’s visit to Hershey. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The AACA Hershey Region Fall Meet photo onslaught continues! This time it’s the...

What’s It Weigh? Check Out The RideTech Vehicle Weight Database To See More Than 1,800 Different Vehicle Weights!

Knowledge is power and knowledge is based in data. Data collection is an interesting thing because sometimes the information comes to you and sometimes you need to find the information. When RideTech...

SAD DAY! FINNEGAN SOLD THE TWIN TURBO HEMI JET BOAT. GAME OVER IS GOING TO A NEW HOME!

But the Sonny Leonard Twin Turbo Hemi is going into something that will go 200 mph! Yep, Finnegan has sold Game Over, his 700 plus cubic inch Sonny Leonard powered jet boat, but it has been sold...