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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Better Than Rain-X?! Is This The Best Windshield Water Repellent Windshield Coating Ever? 10 Brands Tested!

I am a big fan of Rain-X. I own, and have owned, a few vehicles that don’t have windshield wipers at all and have found that if you apply it right and often enough it works wonders. I’ve...

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Our Final Gallery of 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Pro Mods, Dragsters, Door Cars, And So Much More!

Here’s gallery #4, our final gallery of PDRA East Coast Nationals action, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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The Wild 1981-1985 Era Of Formula One Cars Race At Monaco Again! 1980s F1 Gold at the 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix!

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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Historical Footage: Throwing The 1974 AMC Matador X Around The Track!

The 1974-78 American Motors Matador coupe is a strange thing to us. It’s styling is polarizing, to put it mildly, but only at the nose and tail. In between those two points is a fairly handsome...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Hey, Ice Cream Truck!

It’s mid-August. Wow. I have watermelons in the garden, my blackberry plants are going dormant, and the grasshoppers and mantis are now no longer cute little bugs but are now several inches...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Radical Can You Live With For A Daily?

The moment it appeared in the parking lot at the hangar, my 1987 Dodge Diplomat became a focal point of a barrage of questions. At the time, it wasn’t painted midnight blue and it wasn’t...

In Car Video: Ride In The Coolest Car To Compete At The Bathurst 12 Hours, A 700hp LS3 Powered Daytona Coupe! Eats Ferrari Alive

Internationally speaking, everyone loves Bathurst, right? If you’re not sick of Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit—though I have no idea how anyone could get sick of that circuit—here’s...

Classic YouTube: The Story Of The Proposed NASCAR L-R Sub-Series

Jeff Dunham might have nailed NASCAR’s mantra on the head using his Bubba J puppet: “THEY’RE MAKING A LEFT TURRRRN! THEY’RE MAKING ANOTHER LEFT TURRRRN!” NASCAR racing...

Carlisle Ford Nationals 2020: Starliners And More Among The Fields

(Photos: Joe Grippo) Getting out to a car show is always a breath of fresh air, but this year that breath of fresh air somehow seems much more refreshing. How long have you spent stuck in the house,...

FREE LIVE STREAM: Numidia Dragway’s Biggest Bracket Payout Ever! Sunday’s 150 Car Race Is LIVE Right Here!

Numidia Dragway’s 150 event is all about big money with limited entries, and it is that time of year. Today’s racing is worth $10,000 to one talented racer, and the field is set at just...

Finnegan Speed Tests Three Stand Up Jet Skis To See If The New 2021 Yamaha Super Jet Is As Fast As It Looks

He did it for you…because he cares…and for science. On the surface this seems like a test anyone would want to do, but that’s only because most of you thinking a day on the lake...

BONUS Bonneville Speed Week Photos! We Found More Photos To Share From This Record Setting Race

When you post up a blog item with links to every one of your photo galleries from an event, only to have him send a note saying “Hey dude, there are three more galleries you guys didn’t...

Watch The Team Built Buckwheat Racing Trans Am Go 288 mph From Inside The Car At Bonneville Last Week!

When Jeffrey Ferguson sent me a “Content Submission”, which you can do as well by clicking the link at the bottom of the website, I wasn’t expecting this! I’m in love with...

Morning Symphony: Musclecars In Vantaa – The Finnish Know How To Treat American Iron!

We have a bucket list of shows from all over the world that we would love to check out if we ever managed to cough up enough coin to travel. Drag races in Brazil and Central America, the wild burnout...

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Fixing Up The Front End: Vice Grip Garage’s Chevelle Has Moved Into The Build Phase!

What’s this year’s mantra? Easy: “Hopefully they’re still doing/having/running (INSERT AUTOMOTIVE-RELATED EVENT HERE) when they scheduled it this year!” That’s the...

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Rough Start Fox Body: Tearing The Transmission Down To The Bone

In the last update of our $600 1989 Ford Mustang LX project beater, we had dropped in the engine and the radiator assembly. It’s been a couple of weeks…you would think that you...

Somebody’s Salty: GM Has Put A Bounty Out For Converting FCA Owners!

(Lead Photo: US News and World Report) What’s the fastest way to irritate an entire auto manufacturer? Outsell them where they historically sell well. The moment they get knocked off of the...