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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Door Cars, Pro Mod And More!

Here’s our last blast of photos from David Whealon, but we’ve got more galleries coming still! Use the link below to check out any of the photos you might have missed so far! (Photos by...

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TX2K26 Day 5 From The Texas Motorplex: The CRAZIEST TX2K ENDING Anyone Has Seen In YEARS! $36,000 To Win This Race

Here’s the Day 5 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Nitro Video: FUEL ALTERED QUALIFYING FROM THE 2026 IHRA SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

We shared Funny Car action from the IHRA Season Opener at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, yesterday and loved the IHRA Nitro action. Fuel Altereds are part of the Nitro show as well, along...

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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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Twisted Steel And Sex Appeal: The Weird History of America’s 40 Year Obsession With Staged Train Wrecks

Between 1896 and 1935 a unique and bizarre series of spectator events occurred across America. Those events were the staged head-on collisions of steam locomotives done as profit-making spectacles....

Escape From Powerline Mud Hole In New York! Watch As These Rigs Fight With One Of The Nastiest Bogs We’ve Seen In A While!

This mud pit just might be the most deceptive one that we have laid eyes on in a while. Why is that? For starters, it doesn’t initially look like a mud pit, but instead looks like an open field...

Concentrated Formula: Renault 205 Turbo 16, France’s Mighty Mini Rally Runabout

Despite the long history of jokes, there are many good things that the French have done. French cuisine? Sure, some Italians might have something to say about it, but find a French chef and you will...

Unhinged: The Story Behind The 1973 Chevelle That Taught Me To Love Violence

That title says a bit, doesn’t it? First off, yes, I’m talking about automotive violence, or as I’ve heard it called throughout the years, “hot-shoe stuff”,...

Mental Mercury: Watch This 1949 Mercury Bound For Drag Week Make 2,000 Horsepower On The Dyno!

When craftsmen come together from multiple disciplines of the hot rodding world the end result is something incredible. This can be evidence in the form of the 1949 Mercury you are about to watch...

Pro Street Priced Right: This 1973 Dodge Dart Sport Has A Worked 340 A Five Speed, and A Price That’s Unbeatable

As our resident Craigslist search engine Rocco Bastone said in his message for us, “try to build one cheaper…” and we could not have said it any better ourselves. You are looking at...

Watch Romain Grosjean Walk Away From One Of The Worst Formula One Crashes In History

This is beyond stunning. This is the worst single F1 crash we have ever seen anyone survive and when you listen to the sport’s veterans and survivors from the deadliest days, they all agree. On...

Rollin’ Thunder: This 895ci Air-Cooled Former Tank Engine Is Just What Your Vintage Truck Project Needs

Now this right here is the cure for the common LS swap, right? We know that someone out there has a vintage truck project and that they’re wanting the thing to have about 500hp, sound good, and...

Ridetech Has New Apparel To Wear and New Components To Drive – Check ‘Em All Out Here

Ridetech is a company that never sleeps. They are always designing, engineering, and testing something. In this case the company has followed up a load of awesome suspension products with a new line...

Simple, Awesome, and Fun: Watch These Hot Rods Hammer Down An Old Kansas Air Strip

2020 is a complicated year. Locally, globally, internally, externally, just straight up complicated. That’s why this video from Kansas is such a refreshing thing to see and it’s not the...

Morning Symphony: The Porsche 904 Carrera GTS – That’s How Good Four Cylinders Can Sound!

If it weren’t for the silver body and the sound coming from it, you’d swear that this wasn’t a German creation, but an Italian one. Pinched at both ends, scoops and vents all over,...

What Should Have Been: Footage Of The Chrysler ME-412 Running And Racing

If there is one car that should truly stand for the best and the worst that occurred during the DaimlerChrysler era, most people would instinctively point to the Chrysler 300C, and for good reason:...

Executive Service: Swinging Big With A Ford Limo At A Burnout Contest

Do you remember the Cadillac limo we took to King of the Heap a couple of years back? We shelled out $650 of hard-earned money in trade for 5,528 pounds of “what in the hell were you...

Rough Start: 1995 Jaguar XJS Convertible – Slip Into Something British For A Moment

Without everybody shouting at once, how many of you took one look at the 1995 Jaguar drop-top that is currently being featured as our latest $5,000, cash-in-hand classifieds find and immediately and...