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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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100 Hot Rod Roadsters. Three Days. One Incredible Adventure. This Road Trip Is Full of Collections, Cruises, And Memories Like None Other.

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage...

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Can Halfass Kustoms Get This Seized 1951 Chevy Pickup Running And Driving Since It Last Ran In 1976?!

Halfass Kustoms doesn’t always do things the way that some fancy shop might, hence the name, but they certainly get results and we love that. I wish I was half as good at getting stuff done as...

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If The Only Rule Was It Had To Have A V8, What Would You Race? Here’s What Showed Up For The V8 Run What You Brung Race at Hudson Speedway

A winged asphalt sprint might be good. Or a dirt late model with all kinds of weird aero. Or just a hobby stock car with not one f given as to what happens to it. The answer you give is not...

Question And Answer Time: Was The SSC Tuatara’s Record Run Questionable?

When the SSC Tuatara speed record video hit the Internet, things exploded. This car stomped a mudhole through any record that Bugatti had, by a wide mile. This car was at aircraft speeds on the open...

Junkyard L99 V8 Gets Nitrous Thrown At It. Will It Live?!?!? This Baby LT1 Is Only 4.3 Liters!

Back in the day when everyone wanted at LT1 to swap into their hot rod, many unknowing folks looked at donor Chevrolet Caprices and thought they were all LT1 equipped when in fact they often had 4.3L...

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...