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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Shares The HISTORY of Alabama’s Favorite Wheelstanding Farm Truck!

Only in the 1960s did a track like Baileyton Goodtime Dragstrip have an in house wheelstander. I mean it wasn’t theirs, but was regularly seen at the track and there are tons of stories about...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What RV Suits You Best?

It’s a subject that just won’t die around BangShift Mid-West right now: the recreational vehicle. Ever since our first tour of Rocky Mountain Race Week (and, honestly, before we said...

Battle Of The Bros: Finnegan And Cleetus Square Off In A Best Of Three Race!

Mike Finnegan and Garrett Mitchell (Cleetus) are two guys who have impressed me since I met them. Finn is always cheerful, always upbeat, always down to talk for a few minutes, and is surprisingly...

Retrowave: 1985 Dodge Daytona Racer…Time To Make This One Howl!

Have you ever seen that meme that ends with, “…because in thirty years, nobody is going to be excited to open up a barn and see a Honda Civic?” or whatever low-end car they can come...

This Looks Good: Saleen Reveals Plans For Off-Road Desert Racer Inspired By Legendary Big Oly

The world is still buzzing about the new Ford Bronco that the company released information and images of a little while back. We knew that this thing was going to create a market and a cottage...

Double Duty Video: Chad Green Raced Nitro Funny Car and Pro Mod At Indy – Live The Weekend From The Inside Out!

When we first got the news that Chad Green was going to run both nitro funny car and pro modified at the NHRA Lucas Oil Summernationals at Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis we were pumped up. It had...

Flight Of The Shadow: Jim Pace Suffers Incredible Crash At Wheel Of Shadow DN4 At Road America – Walks Away

We have shown you many videos over the years with Jim Pace at the wheel of any number of killer historic racing machines. Pace kind of became our “house driver” when it came to showing...

Dare To Be Different: This 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside Pro Street Truck Is Awesome

Different can be cool, different can be weird, and sometimes different can be wrong. In the case of the 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside pro street truck, different is radical! We’re kind of...

New Hypercar On The Block: The Murray T.50 Is An Active Aero Equipped, V12 Powered Beast

(By Tom Lohnes) – Famed Mclaren F1 designer Gordon Murray has decided to make his own supercar. This one however, might be the most mental one we’ve seen. The new Murray T.50 is insane....

Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile

Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...

This WWII Video That Shows B-29 Bomber Crewman Inspecting Their Badly Damaged Plane After Returning To Base Is Amazing

I was cruising the Critical Past YouTube channel recently because it is chock full of amazing footage from the last 100 years of American history, particularly WWII. The video I found that really...

Czechmate: Jay Leno Shows Off His 1938 Tatra T87

If you go to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, you will find one of, if not the largest cache of Tatra automobiles in the United States. Name it, they’ve got it: a T-815 rollback truck, a...

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Historical Footage: 1983 NHRA World Finals At OCIR Courtesy Of Diamond P!

What better way to kick your week off than with the voices of Dave McClelland and Steve Evans announcing some excellent drag racing action for you? Let’s go back to 1983, the year that the Ford...

TRAR Heaven: Odd Off Roaders At The First Deathwish Mud Buggy Adventure

Oh, lord…thank you, Josh Mazerolle, for giving us an idea that we didn’t know we needed to entertain. Look at the lineup…a Dodge Charger, a Volvo wagon, several Panther-bodied cars,...

Show Some Class: 1970 Buick Skylark GS 455 In Black

For 1970, GM had an A-body road burner for whatever your personality type happened to be. Straight-up, no frills and ready to kick ass? LS6 454 Chevelle. As wild and flashy as you wanted to be? GTO...