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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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The 700 Club: Watch This Little 427ci Ford Small Block With A Perfectly Sized ProCharger Make 764hp and 738 lb-ft On The Dyno

There’s just something about a really well designed engine combination that makes us happy here. To us, this little supercharged 427ci small block Ford is about as perfect as it gets for a hot...

Rolls Royce Launches New Ghost For 2021 – The Name May Be Referring To The Apparition That Was Your Bank Account

(By Tom Lohnes) – Rolls Royce has turned itself from an old, aging luxury brand to the pinnacle of automotive of automotive luxury in just one launch, that being the one of the...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Going Mental – Lohnes Talks To Erica Enders and Shawn Langdon About Winning The US Nationals

Erica Enders and Shawn Langdon join host Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast. These are two of the most mentally tuned-in drivers in the game and to hear them walk through their...

When Mercury Was A Going Concern: This 1986 Laser Disc Preview Of Mercury’s Performance Cars Is Cool

Back when the Mercury division of Ford was a happening thing, they were all about getting on the performance bandwagon like the rest of the world was. Of course they, like the divisions of GM were...

Classic YouTube: This Hummer Look-Alike Goes For A Completely Underwater Cruise

We’ve seen videos of Army trucks driving while submerged before. One of the most memorable stories I’ve ever read here was showed a troop carrier several feet underwater, cruising around...

Throwback Thurdsay: Finnegan Looks Back On Drag Week ’19 As He Gears Up For RMRW 2.0!

The bag is getting packed, the gear is being checked, and the hotels have been booked. By the time you are reading this, I’ll be finishing up my last couple of things before I hit the road for...

Money No Object: Cossie-Cat! This Prototype 1980 Mercury Capri Has The Bad Little Four Inside!

When the 1979 Ford Mustang and Mercury Capri were introduced, Ford was quietly trying to push the Windsor V8 out of the picture. It had been a thing for a few years, starting in 1974 when the Mustang...

Gullet-Cam: Here’s What Goes On Inside The Intake Of A Turbo Supra!

The exciting parts of auto shop class in high school was any time you were hands-on with a car, right? You had the tools out, you had the test light out, and you were doing your best to figure out...

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Unhinged: The Story Of N601BN, Braniff International’s “Big Orange” Boeing 747

Come Tuesday, there will no longer be any U.S. based airliner service that utilizes what is arguably the most instantly recognizable airliner ever made, the Boeing 747. Since it’s rollout in...

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Turn-Key Speed: This Blown, Virtually New Slingshot Dragster Comes Ready To Run And With Spares

This is the craziest deal we may have ever seen on eBay and we have seen a few. We found a virtually new slingshot dragster with 21 runs on it, packing a billet TFX block, 6-71, blown hemi with all...

Porsche’s Punchy Panamera Packs Prodigious Power, Pretty Prolific Price Tag

(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Porsche Panamera is out, and it packs a punch along with a steep price tag. Starting at just over $100,000, the new Panamera is meant to compete with other high-model...

New Product: RideTech Introduces New Subframe Connectors For First-Generation Camaro/Firebird – Innovation In Action!

Great companies innovate, right? That’s been the hallmark of RideTech since the earliest days of its existence and the company continues to do it today. The proof is in the fact that these guys...

Langdon, Beckman, Enders, and Pollacheck Win 2020 NHRA US Nationals – Watch Them Do It Here

Boy, it was some kind of race day on Sunday at the US Nationals. Everyone was wondering if it would feel like the US Nationals, if it would have that intensity and that craziness. Well, it did. You...

Calculated Risk Or The Luckiest Trucker In America? Watch This Rig Plow Through Water Up To Its Windshield!

I’ll admit it. Back when I made my living as a CDL driver, I was kind of a wuss. There were guys who had no trouble bombing down icy hills or through unplowed roads with their trucks. Guys that...