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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Friday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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More Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Like A Good Neighbor, Finnegan Is There. Check Out The Two Day Roll Bar Install That Finnegan And Joe Are Doing In This Chevy II.

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as...

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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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This Chrysler Galant Is One Mean Little Bastard! In The Eights With 2.6 Liters Of Pissed Off Four Banger!

Street Hemi, Cobra Jet, Boss, Wildcat, Rocket, Mark IV, TNT, Magnum…we know the classic names for some of the baddest engines that came out of Detroit back when, and we know the modern...

Check Out This Footage From Mettet RX, Belgium’s FIA World RallyCross Championship!

RallyCross, rally racing’s closed-circuit format, is just as awesome as the over-the-hills-and-through-the-woods version, but with the added benefit of everything being visible from start to...

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Watch This Russian Guy Get His Four Wheel Drive Tractor So Stuck A Bulldozer Can Barely Get Him Out

There are two old saws that apply to the situation you are going to see in the video below. The first is that no good deed goes unpunished and this is applicable because the farmer in the big tractor...

Here’s Why You Never Stand At The Fence When Attending Your Local Circle Track

We always cringe a little when we see people hanging on the straightaway fence at a short track mainly because that’s a spot where things can go bad in a flash and collect up unwitting victims...

Watch Shirley Muldowney Appear On The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson In 1986 – They Race!

I have had the good fortune to spend some quality time with Shirley Muldowney over the last few years on the NHRA tour. She is an awesome lady with stories for days and obviously the credentials to...

“A Smiling, Mid-Engined Box Of French Hate”: Davide Cironi Takes On The Renault 5 Turbo 2

The mass majority of the Renault Le Cars imported to the United States have either been shredded and reinvented as a legitimate toy car or have rotted back to the soil from where they came. Once they...

Cancer-Free: Making The Last Rust Repair On The Valiant Wagon

Getting every last scale of iron oxide out of a car that had it by the ton must be as satisfying as the moment the priest exorcises the demon from the afflicted. Few dare attempt and fewer still do a...

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See And Hear The Story Of “Muscle Two”, Martin Sanchez’s Rescued Christine Fury

Halloween…one of my favorite times of the year, where things seem a little bit unsettled, and demons come back to haunt those who deserve the retribution. As a car guy, the one car that always...

Watching Russian People Ferried Across A River In The Buckets Of Two Backhoes Is Pretty Awesome

These are a pair of excavators being expertly operated in order to ferry a group of Russian people across a raging river. There was apparently a problem with the bridge, like it didn’t exist...

SEMA360 Preview: Chevrolet’s 1977 K5 Blazer-E With The Electric Connect And Cruise Crate Package

On the surface, nothing seems amiss…other than it’s the cleanest 1977 Chevrolet Blazer to exist on planet Earth since about the time Brian was a toddler and my dad was getting some...

Awesome Video: Screaming Vintage Racers at Australia’s Bathurst Raceway

Vintage racing is one of our favorite things. Normally we highlight videos from the good ol’ USA but we were tipped off to a great one by Bangshifter Chris Crowley that shows some totally...

The Last Blast: This Last Load Of No Mercy 11 Photos Features The Pits! Engines, Thrash, More!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – If there is one thing that happens more than anything else at Lights Out, Sweet 16, and No Mercy, it is wrenching. These eighth-mile bombs are in need of constant care...

The Bar Keeps Rising: McLaren Brings New Sports Series Model With Turbo V6 and Electric Motors

(By Tom Lohnes) – Mclaren is coming in with another hot one: a new sports series model powered by a V6 and electric motors. The Mclaren sports series has only had 4 models (570S, 570GT, 600LT,...

The Concepts Of 1989: Check Out The Ford Splash and the Pontiac Stinger – What Was Their Influence?

It’s super cool to look back at concept cars from decades past. It gives us a window, typically, into the styling direction of a particular brand or even lets us see some stuff that the...