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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- THURSDAY

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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Two Old Guys In A Corvette: 46th President Joe Biden Speed Shifts His 1967 Corvette with Jay Leno on the Streets of Southern California

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or Independents, none of it matters if you are a real car guy. In the video below you’ll see Jay Leno and President Joe Biden take a ride through SoCal in...

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Big Muscle: Watch This UMP Dirt Modified Engine Make Nearly 900hp Naturally Aspirated – Mean Small Block!

A lot of people forget that no matter the racing surface, having the most horsepower that you can is the name of the game. Take this engine, for example. You are looking at a 436ci UMP Dirt Modified...

Suicidal Speed and Splinters: The History of Board Track Racing In America

For a span of about 25 years in America, the fastest racing venues in the country were not made of asphalt, concrete, or brick, but rather wooden boards. These tracks, which ranged from less than a...

Rough Start: 1977 Pontiac Bonneville – Last Call For Pontiac Power!

When GM put the full-size B-body platform on a diet, there was no singling out a brand that would be spared the crash diet. Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet…all of the full-sizers lost a...

Dulcich Does YouTube: This Oil Pan Baffling Video Shows You How To Improve A Stock Pan At Home!

Steve Dulcich is a great guy who’s magazine stories have enthralled us for years. In more recent times it has been his video work on shows like Hot Rod Garage, Engine Masters, and others that...

The Proper Way To Count Spokes: Crafting Borrani Wire Wheels

Find me a Ferrari made between the 1940s and the early 1970s that shouldn’t be wearing a set of these. I don’t care if it’s a 166MM or a 365 GTB/4 “Daytona”, they just...

Pro Street Perfection: This 1977 Mustang II Has Just Enough Of The Past To Be Present

Yeah, I know. This one will be a pure exercise in love/hate, right? There will be people who look at this Ford and immediately turn their nose up at it and there will be others who are attracted to...

All Spray, No Pray: Watch This Prestige Motorsports 427 Ford Small Black Make 1,000hp On Spray – You Can Win It!

Holley has been giving away some awesome engines over the last year and the program has been successful that it will continue going forward. How do we know? This is one of the engines! You are going...

Nitro Time Machine: Watch Bob Bode Score One Of The Great NHRA Funny Car Underdog Wins Of All Time

When it comes to legendary underdog wins in NHRA nitro funny car history, Bob Bode’s triumph at Brainerd in 2010 stands apart from the rest. The longtime privateer competitor from Illinois only...

Pro Touring Truck: This Profile Of The QA1 New Blue 1972 Ford F100 Will Make You Want A Corner Burning Rig

There was a time a few years back when someone building a pro touring pickup truck was kind of a fun anomaly. The world of hardcore pro touring cars was dominated by traditional machines like...

The Hoonicorn’s Last Ride? Ken Block and Ford Split, This Could Be The Last Time He Mangles Four Tires At A Time

The big news last week was that Ken Block and Ford have amicably ended their 11-year partnership in racing and other automotive craziness. This is a partnership that was amazingly successful in terms...

Enter the Blackwing: Cadillac Has Two Blackwing Sedans Coming And They’re Ready To Throw Down

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Cadillac Blackwing cars are about to come out and although they’re not carrying the Blackwing engine, they’re going to punch above their weight class in performance...

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside: Here Comes Another Weird and Awkward Convertible To The Market!

(By Tom Lohnes) – With the outright failure that was the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet and the more recent Range Rover Evoque convertible, it is safe to say convertible SUV’s aren’t...

2020 AACA Fall Meet Photo Coverage: Our Last Blast Of Amazing Automotive Images From This Huge Show

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Diversity. Variety. Mixture. These are the adjectives I have used to describe the previous galleries showcasing the Antique Automobile Club of America’s...

2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee: The Fifth Generation Of The Iconic SUV Is On The Way

(By Tom Lohnes) – Coming out in 2010, with a refresh in 2014, a huge lawsuit over a shifter, another refresh in 2018, and a screaming supercharged Trackhawk model, the 4th gen Jeep Grand...