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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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SEMA Show 2021: We’ve Got Photos Of All The Cool Cars, Trucks, And More From The 2021 SEMA Show

Here is our next gallery of photos from inside the 2021 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. It’s different for sure, but still huge and full of cool stuff, which is a testament to the strength of our...

Sheet Metal How To: Make Custom Curved Sheet Metal Flanges The Easy Way

There are a lot of cool things you can make with sheet metal, and usually more than one way to make them. But sometimes the simplest and easiest way looks just as trick as if you did it the hard way....

Assembly Zen Video: Watch This Model V-Twin Engine Go Together – Neat Kit!

If you have been back to work for exactly one day after a holiday break and you feel like your head is ready to explode already, we have the solution. This zen-like video shows the assembly of a cool...

SEMA New Product: Blueprint Engines New 302 Block Is The Answer To Your New Small Block Ford Build

We’ve been running a 400 inch Blueprint Power Adder Small Block Chevrolet for a few years now and have driven and raced it with nitrous and boost or both. I bring this up because that engine is...

Watch An Austrian Blacksmith Use A Drop Hammer Built Hundreds Of Years Ago

Old tools are a fascination for practically anyone who loves working on stuff. Old tools have an aura because they are direct extensions of the humans that used them. Whether we are talking about the...

$3,500 Build: Turbo Stuff, Sheet Metal, Body Fitting, And More On This Low Buck Bud Cool 1951 Chevrolet

The Casey’s Customs 1951 Chevrolet build has been pretty cool, and feels a lot like his $1,000 budget F100 build he finished a few months ago. Because the budget is higher, this project is has...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: 9-Gears, No Mufflers, An A Detroit Diesel

Any video that proclaims glee in breaking local noise ordinances is just fine with us! Here we take a ride in a 1985 GMC Brigadier truck as its owner leaves the local fueling station and cruises it...

SEMA Show 2021 Photos: Bitchin Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Exotics, Trucks, And So Much More From The SEMA Show In Vegas

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) It’s SEMA Show time folks and that means cars, trucks, muscle cars, hot rods, race cars, exotics, weird stuff and then stuff that’s just plain freaky are all...

SEMA Show 2021 Photos: The Show Isn’t Even Open Yet And We’ve Got Another Gallery From Inside The 2021 SEMA Show

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) It’s time for the 2021 SEMA Show folks and while it doesn’t open for a few hours yet, I was there yesterday shooting photos of cars and trucks outside AND inside...

Donut Derelicts: More Hot Rods, Customs, Trucks, And More From SoCal’s Hottest Cruise Spot

Our Donut Derelict photos keep coming! We’ve got a bunch more to share with you so check them out below. And if you missed any of our previous photos, click the link below to see them all too....

SEMA Show 2021 Photos: The Show Isn’t Even Open Yet And We’ve Got Photos From Inside And Out At The 2021 SEMA Show

It’s time for the 2021 SEMA Show folks and while it doesn’t open for a few hours yet, I was there yesterday shooting photos of cars and trucks outside AND inside the main hall....

Vannin’ Aussie Style: This 1970s Look At The Van Club Culture In Australia Is Awesome

It’s always wild how similar cultures kind of fall into similar things with very little way to know that each is doing it. In the 1970s, the “vanning” culture in America exploded....

Blinding Speed: Ride On The Back Of A 700hp V-10 Powered Dallara SP1 As It Passes EVERYTHING At Daytona

The march of progress in motorsport is unstoppable. It’s what makes things faster, lighter, safer, etc. Sometimes it is tough to illustrate that progression until you actually put stuff on the...

Franken Ferrari: Check Out The Most Incredible Garage Engine Build We Have Ever Seen – Unreal!

Yeah, this s beyond anything we have ever seen before and it was sent to us by AMP EFI’s Matt Cramer who was also blown way by the depth, skill, and overall crazy nature of this engine build....