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California Man Reunited with Stolen 1969 Camaro Bought Brand New By His Vietnam Veteran Father!

We hear about car thefts all the time, and have been victims ourselves, so when we saw this story on the national news this morning we knew we had to share it. In 1969, after returning home from the...

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Drag Racing Photos: The PDRA Carolina Nationals 2026 At Darlington Dragway Featured Great Cars And Action!

Here’s the 2nd gallery of photos from the PDRA Carolina Nationals at Darlington. Check the out below and if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link for that too! (Photos by David...

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Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Southeast Gassers Association 2026: First Drag Race of The Year from Shadyside Dragway

Here’s a livestream replay from the Southeast Gassers Association’s First Race of 2026 at Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina. If you like traditional nose high gassers that still row the gears,...

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1990s Video Fun: This Look Back At The All-New 1992 Olds Achieva Shows GM’s Parts Bin Management Of 30 Years Ago

I remember when the Olds Achieva came out and I remember the catchy, “This is not your father’s Oldmobile,” advertising campaign and I remember enjoying none of it. As a 12 year old...

Videos: OPGI Is THE Place For Cadillac Parts – Late Model, Classic, Exterior, Interior, More – Check Out These Videos

If you are a Cadillac enthusiast, be it late model or be it from the glorious days of yesteryear, OPGI is THE place to go shopping for the parts you want and need to make your car run better, look...

Texas Tornado: The Hennesey Venom F5 Is A 300+ MPH Capable Hyper Car That Can Go 0-124mph In 4.7 Seconds

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want a car theoretically capable of going 300 miles per hour, but cars like the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut and Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ are too mainstream? Well,...

Rocket Sled: The McLaren Sabre Is Coming To America With 812hp And A Price Tag So Steep, You Don’t Need To Know

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Mclaren Elva was maybe the craziest one yet with over 800 horsepower, no windshield, and an asking price pretty far north of 7 figures. Well notice how we said was?...

Fun Video: Watch This LEGO Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Build Itself From Scratch!

Millions of kids across America got LEGO kits for Christmas. From the little kids who will make small and basic structures with them to the older kids who work with the kits that have motors, moving...

NHRA Insider Podcast: A Romping-Stomping Look Back At 2020 On The Drag Strip

On this final episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast for 2020, Brian Lohnes conducts a wide-ranging series of whip around interviews with members of the NHRAonFOX team ranging from the faces you see...

Monday Drag Racing Movie: Watch This Awesome Coverage Of The 1972 NHRA World Finals

This is possibly the best way to start your post-Christmas Monday. You may be fortunate enough to have the week between Christmas and New Year’s off, but if you don’t we’re going to...

The “WTF?!” Files: 100 MPH With Cops On Your Tail And Your Pit Bull Driving The Car!

Lakewood, Washington is an, *ahem* interesting place to live. Situated just a hair north of Joint-Base Lewis-McChord, Lakewood has the aura of a “military town”…slightly dangerous,...

Best of 2020: The Restoration Of A Mitsubishi Four-Cylinder

Did you build model kits growing up as a kid? Did you ever get that see-through “Visible V8” kit? I begged, I pleaded, and I never saw it. Instead, I held flashlights and fetched...

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Best of 2020: 10-Second Drag Karts From The U.K.!

The first go-kart I ever drove might have made five horsepower from a well-worn Briggs and Stratton engine and was more than enough for a chunky little five-year-old from the eyes of an adult, but as...

Best of 2020: 1974’s “Vrooom!”, A Look Back To The Track In 1974!

Being a student of history, you have to rely on tangible evidence from the past in order to bring it to life. Books, manuscripts, stories from reputable individuals who were actually on the scene...

Stocking Stuffer: The Absolutely Epic Jason Plato/Matt Neal Interview Inside Of Renault Williams

For a kid with a strong racing fascination in the mid-to-late 1990s, you essentially had two outlets if you wanted to see good action on television: TNN and Speedvision. (I’m sure ESPN showed...

Best of 2020: Digging Out An Old Ford Cement Mixer From The Grasp Of The Canadian Cold

Mark my words, if I am anywhere in the world that has a frost layer that can be measured in inches, I am not a happy human being. I’ll roast my ass off in the desert before I freeze my bits in...

3D Printing Fender Flares? Yep! The Guys Did Just That To Get Them Just Right For Project Binky

Project Binky has been one of my all time favorite YouTube builds in the past few years and I’m missing it terribly while it is in the body shop getting painted and ready for reassembly....