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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(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 1, when the driver’s...

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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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Hagerty Redline Rebuild Time: Davin Pulls Down A Mystery 440 Destined For A Project Car

We love us some Hagerty Redline Rebuild series around here and there’s a new one coming. How do we know? This behind the scenes video that shows him pulling down a 440ci Chrysler big block that...

Full Throated History: Watch The Legendary Indy 500 Winning Lotus 38 Run Up The Hill At Goodwood

The Lotus 38 was not the first car in the history of the Indy 500 to place the engine behind the driver’s head but it was the first to win with that configuration and it touched off the massive...

Get Your Goat: This 1970 US Army Gama Goat Is Running, Driving, and Pretty Awesome

The history of the Gama Goat may be one of compromise to the point of nearly being ineffectual but let’s not be negative here. Roughly 15,000 Gama Goat trucks were built and the reason for...

Speed Week 2020 Photos: More Images From The Salt – Motorcycles, Streamliners, Cars, Trucks, and More!

Here’s out last fresh batch of Bonneville Speed Week 2020 photos. It has been a real pleasure brining you the images from the starting line, the pits and around the salt this year. Speed week...

MAHLE Motorsport Introduces Two New Porsche 911 2.7L – 2.9L Piston Kits Designed for Nickies™ Performance Air-cooled Cylinders

If you’ve got yourself a Porsche with a 2.7-2.9L engine that needs to be refreshed or expanded for more performance, MAHLE Motorsport has you covered with two new piston kits that are designed...

Tony Schumacher Returns To NHRA Drag Racing For Six Races Starting At Denso Spark Plugs US Nationals

Tony Schumacher will have an interesting role to play in the majority of the rest of the NHRA season as Don Schumacher Racing has announced that Tony will be back in the seat for six races starting...

Listen Up: TJ Zizzo and Angelle Sampey Are This Week’s Guests On The NHRA Insider Podcast – Honest, Cool, Inside Stories!

TJ Zizzo and Angelle Sampey join Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider Podcast to talk about their careers, recent successes, and how the long and winding road of drag racing has taken them to places both...

Man Puts 1-Million Miles On Nissan Frontier – Is Given Identical Truck By Nissan

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Nissan Frontier: A truck that’s been around for 17 years without a major update has hit a milestone. A man from Texas put a million miles on his 2007 Frontier and Nissan...

Classic YouTube: Durability Testing A Volvo Dump Truck By Letting A Four-Year-Old Operate It

Certain things in life are inescapable truths. Volvo, regardless of who owns them, has always been hell-bent on making sure that every vehicle that carries their name is safe for anyone, anywhere,...

Kept Precious: Jay Leno Walks Through His Owned-From-New Dodge Viper

In a crowd of Chrysler minivans, Ford Escorts, GM full-size sedans and four-cylinder imports that were starting to get surprisingly good, the Dodge Viper had all of the impact of a Tito Ortiz punch...

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Rippin’ Grip: This Beefy Little Ford-Powered Miata Can Get Down On The Strip

The combination of an AC Ace, the Ford Motor Company, and a chili connoisseur from Texas combined to make one of the most fearsome sports cars ever devised, the AC/Shelby Cobra. In small-block form,...

Unhinged: A “Knight Rider” Reboot? Somebody Needs To Be Rebooted.

In 2000, Nicolas Cage became Randal “Memphis” Raines for the reworking of the H.B. Halicki legend “Gone in 60 Seconds”. In 2004, “Starsky and Hutch” got reworked,...

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Rough Start: 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Sedan – A Bit Of Sage Advice

A few days ago, while driving through town, I spotted a vehicle I would’ve never expected to see still on the road in 2020: a G-body Buick Regal four-door from the mid-1980s. In a sea of...

Bonneville Speed Week 2020 Photo Coverage: Images From Sunday Morning On The Salt – Speed and Beauty!

The Bonneville Salt Flats have been challenging the smartest, bravest, and most innovative hot rodders the world has to offer for more than 100 year now. Since the initial speed runs were made on the...