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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Laris Motorsports Insurance $75K Big Money Bracket Racing Livestream! Saturday $75k!

It’s time for more LIVE drag racing, and this time it is from the big money bracket races at Darana Raceway National Trail in Hebron Ohio as they Laris Motorsports Insurance $75,000 To Win race...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: War in the Woods at Brown County Dragway – NO PREP DRAG RACING GREATNESS – Friday

If you don’t know Brown County, and the War in the Woods races, then you don’t follow No Prep because this is one of the most famous races and tracks in the No Prep drag racing world. Thanks to...

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Free Livestream: Check Out Qualifying From The Shakedown At US131 As The Mid West Drag Racing Series And Radial Outlaws Prepare For The Weekend!

US 131 has been open for testing the past few days as both the Mid West Drag Racing Series and Radial Outlaws Racing Series prepare to take over the famed US 131 Motorsports Park. I’ve raced...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Pavement Pounder Events Motor City To Wheel Hub LIVE Event Did Not Disappoint! Our Photo Coverage Starts Right Now!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) We came out to hang with Cole Quinnell and his event Pavement Pounder’s Motor City to Wheel Hub Live about one minute after we got our ’65 Impala SS...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Final Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos From Charlotte!

Here’s our final nitro gallery from the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. If you missed our previous photos, use the link below to check out all our Four Wide photos. (Photos by David...

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The Beginning of The End: This Review Of The 1992 Buick Roadmaster Shows Us The Big Car In Its Final Form

The venerable GM B-Body platform that served the company so well from 1977 through 1996 would enter its last phase of design and development in the early 1990s. The box shapes of the 1980s were...

Nitro Time Machine: Richard Tharp and Shirley Muldowney Take Their Top Fuel Blood Feud To The 1983 Columbus Final

In drag racing, as in life, we all have people that we just don’t like. Sometimes that dislike simmers below the surface but lots of times it doesn’t. There wasn’t a drag racing fan...

One Lung Heroes: Check Out This Video Featuring The Biggest and Baddest One Cylinder Engines in History

When we think of engines, in the modern world single cylinder jobs are the ones we push around, carry around, or wear on our backs to do yard work, right? Well for a lot of internal combustion...

Rick Suchy – The Last Ride – In His 1957 Buick Caballero! Now This Is A Celebration Of Life…

(Words and Video by Chad Ehrlich) Rick loved cars, street rods, muscle cars, classics, race cars, he’s had them all. From his bone stock 33 Chevy Coupe to his Supercharged Sand Car pumping out...

DYNO VIDEO: How Much Power Does BeerMoney Actually Make?!

People are always asking how quick and how fast Beer Money is, and then they ask how much power it makes. With all the No Time, No Prep racing that we’ve been doing with it, there isn’t...

Casey’s Customs 1965 Mustang Chassis Swap Continues! It Is Alive!!!

It’s Part 3 of the 1965 Mustang chassis swap. Or is it a late model Mustang body swap? Regardless, this is the project you will laugh at and think is cool as hell if you like old and new...

Real Street Cars At Road America: Another Gallery From OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car At Road America

Here is our second gallery from Road America, if you missed the first just click the link below! (Words by Jim McIlvaine) OPTIMA’s 2022 Search for the Ultimate Street Car, presented by Advance...

A Delicate Balance: Check Out This Trip To The Machine Shop And An In-Depth Look At How To Balance A Crank and Rotating Assembly

Long before the internet, few hot rodders had any REAL idea what happened in the back of the machine shops they sent their parts to. Drop it off, come back a week later to get it, pay the man, and...

New Parts: New Pro-Fit TKX 5-Speed Systems For 1982 – 1992 F Body Camaro/Firebird

The 1982-1992 GM F-Body, better known by everyone as the “Third Gen” has finally arrived back on the scene. For many years these cars were kind of derided and scoffed at. A couple of...

Listen Up: The NHRA Insider Podcast New England Nationals Preview Show – Epping Is This Weekend!

Tony Pedregon and National Dragster’s Kevin McKenna join host Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast. The trio look forward to this weekend’s running of the NHRA New...

A Much Needed Revamp: Lexus Freshens The RX Lineup From Top To Bottom – More Horsepower, Handling, Performance

(By Tom Lohnes) – Since the mid 1990’s the Lexus RX has been a staple of the luxury crossover. With ample room, tons of modern features, and a solid, reliable, powertrain as standard, the RX...

A Return To Form: The MC20 Cielo Is A Beautiful, Fast, and Exclusive Maserati, The Way They Should All Be

(By Tom Lohnes) – Believe it or not, it has nearly been 2 years since Maserati unveiled their MC20 supercar. Yep, time flies. Obviously, the pandemic affected a lot in the automotive industry,...

W Is For Win: Watch This Classic Chevy 409 Receive A Modernization Program From Keith Dorton

When it comes to building awesome engines that are not cookie cutter, production line pieces, Keith Dorton and Automotive Specialists are the place to go. Why? Dorton and his son have accumulated...

Friday Night Thunder At The Somernites Cruise – Finally, A Reason To Go To The Mall!

It is approximately 130 miles between BangShift Mid-West and Somerset, Kentucky. I’ve taken two cars to Somerset for the Somernites Cruise in the past: the Angry Grandpa Chrysler, which had...