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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Hotted up Hyundai: The Upcoming 2022 Hyundai Elantra N Looks Like A Budget Minded Performance Sedan

(By Tom Lohnes) – Hot on the heels of the Hyundai Veloster being discontinued for the 2022 model year, Hyundai reveals the awesome Elantra N sports sedan. Does it make up for the Veloster?...

Wine Is For Winners: Watch The Final Round Runs From The 2021 NHRA Sonoma Nationals!

The second stop of the NHRA’s 32nd Western Swing was Sonoma Raceway last weekend and it was one hell of a race. The fans were out in force, the racers brought the high hard one, and only one...

Inside Out: What To Do To Rustproof The INSIDE Of Your Frame Rails!

I’ve had several chassis and subframes sand blasted or chemically stripped and powder coated over the years, and it is a great way to finish up a chassis. But there are some downsides too. If...

Photos: Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos Of The Cars Competing At UMI’s Autocross Challenge In Pennsylvania

This is it, the last gallery of competitors from the UMI Autocross Challenge at UMI Motorsports Park in Clearfield Pennsylvania. If you missed any of them, don’t worry there are links below so...

Photos: SoCal Hot Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, Trucks, And More From The Quarantine Cruise

(Photos by Wes Allison) We told you we had a bunch of great photos from the Quarantine Cruise this month, and we weren’t kidding. Wes was on site getting both parked and rolling shots as well...

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...