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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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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(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 0, when everyone shows up...

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More 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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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Welcome Back To The Brutality: Rally Racing Crashes From The Year That Cared Not

You can determine just how well this year is treating you, mainly because at this point any concept of a blanket statement is worthless. 2020 is one for the books…right up there with the Black...

The Fall Fling At Galot LIVE Continues Sunday For $125,000!

The Fling events, whether the Spring Fling, Spring Fling Million, Fall Flings, etc, are some of the finest run bracket races in the world. They have arguably changed the landscape of bracket racing...

Rainmakers: New Orleans Offers A Wet And Wild Street Car Experience For Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car Racers

(Words by Jim McIllvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelly) By the time the world’s best street cars rolled into NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans, five events were in the books for OPTIMA’s...

What Do You Take To Pick Up A Small Block Swapped Mini Truck? DUH! A Blown Ramp Truck!

Mike Finnegan never bores, with all the trucks he’s swapped and traded and bought and sold in recent years, but right now he’s on a whole new level of the car and truck shuffle and has...

American PowerTrain Starting Shift: Working A Detroit Diesel Up Through The Gears And Back Down Again On A Grade

For this week we’re throwing down two stroke style for our American Powertrain Starting Shift. We get to sit (literally) in the driver’s seat of a 1980 GMC Brigadier dump truck as it...

Wild Video: Watch These British Navy Guys Cheerfully Disarm A Mine In 1940

WWII in England had to have been a time of indescribable feelings. There was the patriotism involved in defending their country, the terror of knowing that missiles could rain down at any moment, the...

Watch Smokey Yunick Make A Side Splitting Speech From His Induction Into the Daytona Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame

While Smokey Yunick died about 16 years ago now, his legend continues on and will for generations. We got tipped off to this truly awesome video by a guy who said that it was must watch stuff. He was...

This 1940 Ford Truck Promotional Film Features About Every Cool Model The Company Made At The Time

The world has moved on the backs of trucks for many decades now but it was a different story in 1940. It is not as if there were still lots of horse drawn carts moving stuff from place to place but...

Unhinged: Going Nighty-Night On Purpose For G-LOC Training

G-force induced loss of consciousness (abbreviated as G-LOC) is what can happen when gravitational forces effectively drain blood away from the brain. While the condition is best known as a serious...

Watch The Wild Ride Of Raymond Beadle From The 1982 NHRA Gatornationals – Crowd Goes NUTS!

The late Raymond Beadle was one of the greatest “funny car guys” of all time. A risk taker, a hustler, one hell of a driver, and a guy who was one of the true rock stars in the world of...

Copart Cadaver: This 1971 Plymouth GTX Got The Wrong End Of Somebody’s Bad Day

For the most part, roaming through Copart for classics leaves little to the imagination on what might have happened that brought the car to the place where dead vehicles dwell. A 1970 Pontiac GTO...

That’s The Spirit: 1979 American Motors Spirit GT That’s Ready To Rip

So what that it’s a gussied up AMC Gremlin with a tail that’s a bit more palatable than the original. V8, four-speed, and it sounds like it wants to fight. So it came from the wrong end...

Watch This Car With Four Wheel Steering Strut Its Stuff On A Michigan Bridge In 1931 – Freak!

Yes, that old car is driving completely sideways. This film taken in 1931 shows a guy in Pontiac, Michigan driving a car that he specially modified to have four wheel steering. Think monster truck...

Ride In A Screaming 289 Powered GT40 As It Tears Around Spa And Makes An Insanely Tight Pass

Everyone has their short list of cars that they’d do something horrible to have a shot at driving and we’re thinking that the Ford GT40 shows up on most people’s. Ultimately it was...