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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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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....

Homemade Tools: This Pipe Anvil Will Come In Handy For Lots Of Sheetmetal Projects And Is CHEAP! Make Your Own Trans Tunnels, Driveshaft Tunnels, Rockers, And More!

I love DIY tools. I have a bunch of tools in my toolbox that have been modified or scratch built in order to fulfill a need, or to do a special task. Most of them are small, but when I see a home...