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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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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 Maniac’s Truck: Go In-Depth Into Colin Furze’s 1988 Toyota!

The Toyota Hilux is indestructible. TopGear proved it by trying like hell to kill one and they failed. And they tried, indeed: among other, much more minor abuses, the Toyota was drowned in the...

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Watch A Crewman Escape Death By Inches At Byron Dragway – Dragster He Is Standing Next To Nearly Runs Him Over

In nearly 20 years of going to the drag strip now (mostly in a working environment) I have learned a few things but the most important thing I have learned is that the starting line is an incredibly...

Morning Symphony: Arias Hemi V6 – An Absolutely Rare Gem

The three parts of the description of the engine you are about to hear individually have merit. Hemi, by itself, needs no introduction. While primarily thought of as a Chrysler mill that has been...

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Hard Shot: Here’s What Happens With A Nitrous Crazed Grudge Car Busts The Tires Loose – BAM!

Grude racing, no time racing, whatever you want to call it is the hottest segment in the world of drag racing today. Seemingly every track across the country is running programs where cars like these...

In-Car Video Perfection: Ride Along In A Real 1966 GT350 At The Classic24 at Daytona – Screaming On The Banks!

This is just one of those videos that we could watch on a loop for hours. Between the course, the car, and the history involved in all of it, you cannot help but love this scene. The video was take...

Home-Grown Paint Job? Yeah…Uncle Tony Has A Thing Or Two To Say About That

One of the things that I’m flipping a coin on is whether I’m going to paint the Rough Start Fox or not. Our 1989 Mustang is two different shades of red (mostly Cabernet Red, some Bright...

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Rough Start: 1971 Ford Maverick Sans Engine

The Ford Mustang is the car that America loves…except those made between 1971 and 1978, it seems. The final form of the first generation Mustang got big to accept big engines at precisely the...

Wreckage Video: Mitch George’s Wild Heavy Street Wreck From The Old Shakedown At E-Town

(By Jason Mazzotta) – The Shakedown at E-town was always an event that the racing world kept their eyes on; for the record runs, giant wheelies, and some of the most unbelievable wrecks ever...

Throw Down Old School: This 1971 Vintage Funny Car Is Just Begging For A Restoration And Re-Power!

There’s “nostalgia funny car racing” and then there are real, period correct funny cars. This 1971 Charger funny car is for sale at a dealer’s place in Texas and while...

Drag Racing Time Travel: These Films From Bakersfield and Indy Are An Amazing 1960s Time Portal

Long before the golden age of the internet and YouTube, if you were a kid who loved hot rods and fast cars and wanted to see more of them, you needed some gumption…and some money. Whether you...

Jason Harris Overcomes Tough Field To Win Second Big Dog Of The 2020 Season For Wine Racing

(By Greg Burrow) – After 23 seasons, becoming the longest running single track series in the country, you would possibly think that competitors in Piedmont Dragway’s “Big Dog Shootout”...

What’s It Going To Be? We Take Some Guesses At What The Raptor Version Of The Ford Bronco Could End Up Like

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Bronco has made a giant splash in the recent news, and it probably will continue to for a while. The Ford F-150 Raptor has also made a big splash in recent years for...

Listen Up: NHRA Insider Podcast Triumphant Return Edition – Pro Stock Bike Racer Ryan Oehler and Kevin McKenna

The NHRA came back in a big way over the course of the last two weekends and along with the racing fun there was plenty of awesome storylines that developed over the course of the two events. This...

Classic Video: Watch Tony Stewart Give the Single Greatest Post Race Interview in NASCAR History Back In 2012

Tony Stewart is one of the greatest NASCAR racers ever. We’d actually say that he is one of the greatest American race car drivers ever because he has been in sprint crs, Indy cars, and other...