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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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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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It Is Cummins Powered, But With An F350 Foundation! This Ramcharger Is One Bad Mother.

This is one bad Ramcharger. I’ve always liked these things, even though I grew up as a Chevy guy, because they remind me of the Blazers. And with Broncos and Blazers always being the talk of...

Lost Steer, Part 3: The Maverick Gets To Go Play In The Muddy Field

Once the daily high drops below fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and the rain, mist, fog, and even snow kick in, the natural instinct for most people is to shrug off everything that isn’t absolutely...

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Josh Hart Is Going Top Fuel Racing In 2021! Thanks For The Fun Top Alcohol, But It Is Time For Nitro!

2021 is going to be an interesting year for the NHRA Top Fuel ranks. For the last year or two we’ve seen some events without a full Top Fuel field, which has opened up the opportunities for...

2021 Camaro SS and ZL1 Sales Banned In Washington and California Because Of Copper Content In Brake Pads And Salmon

In a year that just keeps on doling out the awesome news at seemingly every turn, the latest wrinkle involves Camaro, copper, and salmon. Oh, also Arnold Schwarzenegger. Long story short is that back...

eBay Find: This 1973 Pontiac Catalina Safari Station Wagon Is Cool And Includes Some Plot Twists

It’s been a while since we have laid eyes on a massive cruiser the likes of this 1973 Pontiac Catalina Safari station wagon and it’s really been a second since we have seen one that has...

At Full Sail: Nissan Has Refreshed Their Flagship Armada SUV And The Price Didn’t Change

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Nissan Armada has been, like any Nissan, the value payer in its segment, with the lowest price in its class, a punchy V8, standard 4WD, and ever-comfortable seats....

Load of Lotus: Check Out The Coolest Lotus Moments From Goodwood SpeedWeek 2020

There are few race car manufacturers who elicit the kind of emotional reaction from people that Lotus does. More specifically the brilliant, risk-taking, some would say reckless, founder of the...

Final Assembly Time: The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Project Looks AWESOME All Decked Out

It has been a long road and one that wasn’t devoid of struggle but the sometimes resistant Buick Straight Eight that Davin was building over at Hagerty has finally reached the last stages of...

Might As Well Make It Pretty: Painting The Engine Donor Mustang Up

The original plan for this mid-’00s Mustang was simple: rip the Boss 302 engine out of the car and shove it into the best big-boy Bronco that the Deboss Garage guys could find. And like every...

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Rough Start: Bring Your Own Engine For This 1986 Olds Cutlass Racer!

We love a good G-body machine around here. And we love anything that has proven performance and potential. A trip around RacingJunk, eBay or the right Facebook pages will find you plenty of decent...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is This Year’s Winter Project?

Never, ever, in the thirty-seven years that I’ve been on this planet, have I been happier for winter to show up. The last time I was this ready for winter I was still in grade school and we got...

Splitting The Difference: The 2022 F-150 Tremor Is A Perfect Off-Road Themed Step Between A Street Truck and A Raptor

(By Tom Lohnes) – It ain’t no Raptor, but the 2022 Ford F-150 Tremor packs a giant off-road punch at significantly less money than the Raptor. With the yet-to-be-driven Ford Ranger Tremor...

Rare Royalty: This 1978 Monarch Has A Factory Four Speed – Clean, Cool, Slow, and Expensive

Back in 1978 only 585 Mercury Monarchs were produced from the factory with a four speed manual transmission and the 302 small block engine. This is even crazier when you think about the fact that...

Godzilla Dyno Fun: Brian Wolfe Rips A 446ci Godzilla With Ported Heads, A New Cam, Intake, Calibration – Big Power

Brian Wolfe’s work with hot rodding the Ford 7.3L Godzilla V8 engine has been awesome. We have seen a load of different things so far and most of them have been a little outside the parameters...