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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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Music To Your Ears: Watch, And Listen, To The Best Sounding Cars From Goodwood’s 83rd Members Meet Right Here!

Whether you love the sound of a great American V8 at full song, the shreak of a V12 Aston Martin, or the songs that Ferraris and F1 cars make, you’ll love this video. This is nothing but on track...

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EPIC FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 4 and 5 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat. It’s all big...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Mission Raceway

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! 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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Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Check Out The On Track Action and Checkpoint Photos Right Here!

When BANGshifter Neal Sabo said he was going to head down to Buckeye Skips 2025 Drag and Drive, to snap pictures and check out the cool stuff going on, we were like “Hell yeah!” He hit...

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Scoggin-Dickey C8 Corvette Tech Tip: Dual Clutch Transmission Issues Solved And Bonus Tips Too. Must Watch If You Road Race, Or Just Do Lots Of Donuts.

The new C8 Corvette, whether you like the mid engine format and looks or not, is THE best Corvette ever manufactured. By every analytic measure, this Corvette is better than any that came before. You...

Money No Object: This Dodge Li’l Red Express Will Haul Ass In Full Disco Style!

In the grand scheme of things, Chrysler Corporation in 1979 was more dysfunctional than an alcohol-fueled Thanksgiving Day family fist fight that was coming to an end. Lee Iacocca had been sniped...

If You Won The Billion Dollar MegaMillions Jackpot, What Crazy Expensive Thing Would You Buy In A Hurry?

Everyone plays the “if I won the lottery” game at some point or another, and especially when the jackpot gets huge like Powerball and MegaMillions have been lately. It’s always fun...

It Ain’t Cheap But It’s Cool! This LS Swapped K10 Chevrolet Is Lifted Greatness On Super Swampers And Makes Me Drool

When most people think about trucks and me they think lowered or fast, because I’m a huge fan of stuff on Air Ride and laying out a truck on the ground is cool. But what lots don’t know...

This Drag Racer Lives By The Mantra Of “Never Lift” And It Sure Makes For A Good Show

There’s a weird duality of celebrating a guy who drives his car way past the point that most others would have thrown in the towel at the drags. On the positive side, there’s a...

Rahn Tobler, NAPA Funny Car Crew Chief Announces his Retirement

Rahn Tobler is one of the cooler nitro crew chiefs in the NHRA ranks. I say this because he’s got some of the coolest experiences, working with some absolutely epic drivers and crews. Plus,...

This 1954 Chevrolet 3800 Flatbed Is Work Truck Greatness That Would Make A Cool Hauler

Big trucks are so big now that we sometimes forget where they started. There was a time when a “Big Rig” had mechanical brakes! Or course they didn’t haul 50,000 pounds around back...

Watch What Happens When A Pro Stock Pulling Big Rig Suffers A Universal Joint Failure While Hauling The Sled

We’ve showed you lots of videos of pulling trucks and tractors suffering big time engine failures while trying to drag the mighty sled down course. This is one of the first videos we’ll...

Watch The 1988 IHRA Super Nationals From Bradenton, Florida Here – This Is Fantastic!

Next weekend I am heading to Florida for the 2021 US Street Nationals, the kick off of the pro mod and drag radial drag racing season. Back in 1988, the IHRA planned on kicking off their season at...

Scott Visits A Super Secret Stash Of Muscle Cars, And Shares It All With Us Right Here!

Every time you hear about a stash of muscle cars, or barn finds, or whatever, you think to yourself that there is no way there could be any more of these to find. And yet somehow there are. Of course...

Project Henry’s Hot Rod Update: Picking Off The Little Stuff And A Late Braking Issue That’s A Potential Nightmare

We’re back with another update on our 1940s mongrel N-series Ford tractor project. If you have not been following since the start, we scored this tractor on the cheap and made it run and...

Freedom Factory Construction Update: Light Poles, Speaker Systems, and The Thrash To Fix The Facility Continues

We have been following along with Cleetus McFarland and his quest to restore the former DeSoto Speedway (now the Freedom Factory) back to operational health. He has had some pay per view events and...

The Mistubishi Lancer Evolution Is Coming Back, Kind Of: New Evo Set To Be Electric Crossover

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution has long been a staple of Japanese performance, with AWD, up to 440 horsepower, and a standard manual transmission, the Evo was about as close...

This Ultra Rad Crown Supercoach Bus Would Make A Killer RV, Party Bus, Or Car Hauler!

I love old busses, whether stock, modified into cool RVs or when customized to haul toys. I have seen a few really cool school bus conversions into both open and enclosed ramp trucks to haul race...