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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: The Every Man Challenge Is Today! Smaller Tires, Less Power, And Less Suspension Travel! This Is King of the Hammers Livestream Action From Johnson Valley!

Off-road racing across Johnson Valley California at King of the Hammers 2026 continues right here! We’ve got the livestream rocking right here from start to finish, so make sure you tune in and...

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Sick Week 2026 Video Coverage: Drag, Drive, Repeat’s FULL Day 2 Video Coverage Is Right Here! All The Action!

The Drag, Drive, Repeat crew are in the house and ready to rock and roll through the rest of Sick Week 2026. And while we already shared their Day 2 points special, this video here is one that shows...

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Sick Week Drive Day Video: 370 Street Miles Prove Too Much For Some Racers And Brings More Bad News

370 miles is a real drive, and apparenlty more than a few of these racers could handle during Sick Week 2026. The drive from South Georgia all the way to Bradenton is a real drive and sometimes...

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Tool Tech: Have You Ever Seen A Screwdriver This Good? Testing And Reviewing Precision And Electric Screwdrivers

Let’s face it, there are plenty of times that the tools we are using on our hot rods and race cars are about as rudamentary as can be. Hammers, pry bars, even screw drivers sometimes. But then...

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Day 9: Shannon and Jess Campbell’s King of the Hammers 2026 Daily Adventures: Watch Shannon Qualify For King of the Hammers 2026 With In Car Video And More Right Here!

We shared some of Shannon Campbell’s history at King of the Hammers the other day, and you can use the link below to check that out, but here are Shannon’s Daily Updates from the Lakebed...

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Sick Week Day 2 Video From KSR, Drag, Drive, Repeat, And Alex Taylor: This Day Did Not Go To Plan For Everyone!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 2 video blog post from Sick Week 2026 and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, Alex Taylor, and the Drag Drive Repeat boys are...

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Awesome Images: Ed Iskenderian’s 100th birthday At Bruce Meyer’s American Car Cruise-In!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Ed Iskenderian recently turned 100 years old and frankly, the guy shows no signs of slowing down. Because reaching triple digits is an incredible feat of human...

McLeod Racing Welcomes Will Baty “Mr. Clutch” as Off-Road and R&D Specialist 

The high performance aftermarket is like any other industry in the world when it comes to doing business the right way. You have to have good products, good processes, and good people to succeed. The...

There May Be A Red Bull Hypercar Coming – A Hybrid That Uses F1 Technology To Scorch The Asphalt

(By Tom Lohnes) – After Redbull racing’s successful collaboration with Aston Martin and their bonkers Valkyrie hypercar, they’ve been playing around with the idea of making their own road...

Spy Video: The C8 Z06 Has Some Amazing Engineering Under It – Exotic Materials, Big Performance?

(By Tom Lohnes) – A few days after Chevy released official exhaust clips of their new Corvette ZO6, a very sneaky spy has gotten up close and personal with the car. He saw some pretty...

Just Weird Enough: The 1987 Volvo 780 Coupe Was The Start Of A Small Selling Swedish-Italian Experiment

The success of Volvo’s 700 series of cars cannot be denied. Over the course of a decade from the 1980s into the 1990s they sold millions of them all over the world. But there’s one...

Freak Show: This Video Shows The Weirdest Experimental Aircraft Of The 1920s, 1930s, and Earlier!

When it comes to the mechanical achievements of mankind, the achievement of heavier than air flight has been one of the most profound. Just think of how reliant we are in so many aspects of life on...

Old School Assembly: Watch This Vintage Frankland Quick Change Rear Axle Get Assembled

When it comes to dirt track racing, land speed racing, and even old school drag racing, quick change rear axles have been a thing for many, many years. The ability to make simple, efficient, and...

BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: We Decide To Go Atomic With The Old Rig!

Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...

Drag Race Photos: NHRA Sonoma Nationals Photos Continue. Big Power, Wheels Up Action, And More!

(Photos by Eric Myers) Here are more photos from the NHRA Sonoma Nationals, including both the Pros and Sportsman racers, so you can see header flames and wheels up action both. The variety is great...

Photos: Our Second Round Of Quarantine Cruise Photos Are Right Here! Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Customs, And More On The Streets.

(Photos by Wes Allison) The SoCal Quarantine Cruises are something special because they are both a parking lot style car cruise-in and an on-road event all in one. There are a ton of cars and trucks...

Photos: Our UMI Autocross Challenge Competitor Photos Continue. Muscle Cars, Late Models, And More!

The UMI Autocross Challenge is a fun and exciting race where competitors are battling it out for an entry to the UMI King of the Mountain race in August. That race has a $25,001 check for the winner,...

Event Photos: We’ve Got All Our Cruisin’ Grand Car Show Photos Right Here In One Place!

(Photos by Wes Allison) We’ve been running our Cruisin’ Grand photos for the past few days, but we like to make sure you can get through them all easily so we’re making sure you can...

Did Finnegan Actually Take His Toterhome And Trailer On A Family Vacation?

The answer is…”Yes, yes he did.” And it was awesome and he had a great time and we love him for it. But why? Well, because he and his wife and the kiddos went on vacation to a place...

This Dude Bought An Abandoned Race Track, And For All The Right Reasons!

We’ve all heard stories about people buying race tracks of all kinds, some still up and running, others on the verge of collapse, and others that have shut down and need serious help to come...