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LIVE: The IHRA Fendt High Stakes Pro Pulling League Visits 300 Raceway in Farley Iowa For Night 1 Pulling Action LIVE

It’s time for some Pro Pulling Series action from the IHRA Fendt High Stakes Pulling shootout at 300 Raceway in Iowa, and if you love dirt flinging pulling action then this is the livestream for...

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Easiest Chop Top Ever? It Looks So Simple When Mackey and Machine Do It! Complete Top Chop In 15 Minutes. Watch.

Anyone who’s been around here much knows that we love chop tops and love videos showing tops being chopped. We’ve featured a ton of video from Bello’s Kustoms over the years, but...

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IHRA Triple Crown Qualifying LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

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! We’ll have all the...

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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: 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 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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Looking For The Best Rear Frame Clip For Your Hardcore Pro Touring Build – Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Has It!

If you are contemplating or starting in on a hardcore pro touring build and are trying to figure out the best options for the business end of the car, Chris Alston’s Chassisworks may have just...

Creative Adjustments: Let Darrell Waltrip Tell You About Rule-Bending In 1970s NASCAR

If you’re about my age or younger, Darrell Waltrip comes across as the cheerful good ol’ boy of NASCAR, the grandfatherly figure who was ready to spit in that classic Southern charm that...

Bored Farmer: Here’s What A Perkins-Powered Ford Sounds Like!

In 1989, Dodge managed to turn the rapidly aging D-series Ram into a star with the addition of a huge diesel engine courtesy of Cummins. It was their second foray into the diesel world, but it was...

Watch This Ford Econoline From Hell Obliterate A Mud Pit From A Bunch Of Angles – Gnarly!

No one likes unique more than we like unique so when we laid eyes on this killer video being featured on the Urban Hillbilly YouTube page we had to showcase it here. The good part is that we can tell...

Watch Al Hofmann Run The Table At The 1995 NHRA Finals And Needle John Force The Whole Tim He Does It

If there is one thing we know it’s that one of the most fun parts of drag racing in the 1990s was the rivalry between John Force and Al Hofmann. No, Hofmann did not get around Force for a title...

Don’t Blame Me: McTag’s Next Dodge Mirada Lives In Idaho And Has A Leaning Tower Of Power

Look McTaggart, don’t blame me. Rocco Bastone was the guy who hunted this thing down on Craigslist and now I’m just here to tell you about it. For $2,600 you can buy this kind of surface...

Beer Money’s Money Maker: This Profile Of The Engine In Everyone’s Favorite Ratty Mustang Is Awesome

The Beer Money Mustang is well known around the world of drag racing. The car that was built by guys like Pete Harrell, Eric Yost, our own Chad Reynolds, and Lyle Barnett went from a reality show...

DOA: GM Cuts Funding For Potentially Awesome Nikola Badger Electric Truck – Can It See The Light Of Day?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Were you planning to ditch your Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, or Tesla Cybertruck order in favor of the new Nikola Badger electric truck? Well, bad news. GM cut funding for the...

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...