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GIVING AWAY A FREE TRANSMISSION! American Powertrain & TREMEC Transmission Kit Contest Drawing At Hot Rod Power Tour 2026

Every year at Hot Rod Power Tour the folks at American Powertrain partner with TREMEC to give away a free American Powertrain Transmission Kit for one lucky winner. It’s free to enter and you...

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IHRA Triple Crown Testing LIVE: Teams Are Testing For Tomorrows Racing Action At IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway

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! Teams are fired up and ready to...

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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 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: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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Penske On Indy 500: We Will Run It Only With Fans – August Race Date Could Become October If Necessary

Some would say that Roger Penske made the biggest mistake of his life by buying IndyCar before the 2020 season. Those people aren’t seeing the fact that this Penske is basically the only person...

Pre-Rocket Bunny: 1977 Chevrolet Monza Widebody – Can You Hear The Screaming Small-Block?

The Chevrolet Vega might have been tainted goods after the rust started to appear and the engines started to go boom, but that didn’t mean that the whole platform was bad. Chevrolet just needed...

On This Day: The Horrific 1955 Le Mans Disaster

It happened in the blink of an eye. Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar pulled out in front of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey, who swerved into the path of Pierre Bouillin (aka Levegh)....

Classic YouTube: The 1988 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Test By MotorWeek

Ever hear someone talk about the visceral feel of a car? How a good car can embed parts of itself into your senses, where you can hear, feel, see and smell it? Yeah…meet my visceral car. I have...

The Unstoppable Monster: Check Out The Big N Sexy S10 Monster/Mega Truck In The Mud, The Swamp, and On The Water!

It seems like the more that the “Mega Truck” movement evolves the closer they become (in some sense) to the modern monster truck. What makes them cooler though is the fact that they are...

Barely Breathing: Uncle Tony Gets To Work Diagnosing The Trouble With The Turbocharged Slant Six Dart!

Uncle Tony has his hands on a customer’s 1972 Dodge Dart that has a draw-through turbocharger setup raided from a Pontiac 301 hooked to a 225 Slant Six. Interesting combination, to put it...

This 427ci FE Engine Has The Recipe For Fun: Torque and LOTS Of It!

While the sexy way to make it into a sports hall of fame is to have some incredibly prodigious numbers that are stacked up (sometimes) over a short period of time, the quieter way to make it in is to...

Money No Object: 1970 Dodge D300 – Working Never Looked So Good

I’ve always been drawn to the idea of a work truck. Blame my father for instilling that stereotype of “the truck is for work, the car is for everything else” into me when I was...

Send It With A Smile: Watch Ken Block Drift An 8,000lb Ford F-450 Dually Just Because He Can

There’s just something we love about a dually sliding sideways with all four rear tires smoking. Maybe it is the size, maybe it is the absurdity of it all, maybe it’s just the fact that...

If At First You Don’t Succeed Hammer Down Again: Ride Along In This Rock Bouncer And Claw Your Way To The Top!

Alex Sanders is the driver here and we’re all riding shotgun in his rig known as Ribcage. If you cannot figured out why it carries that name you’ve got some bigger problems in your life....

Morning Symphony: Going, Going, And Gone For This Fox-Body Mustang!

As work progresses on the Rough Start Fox, I keep looking for bits of inspiration to add into the program for our ’89 hatchback, the one that my mother in law called “a little...

Drag Race Coverage: Action Photography From The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT!

(By David Whealon) – The 2020 PDRA drag racing season got started a few short weeks ago at the East Coast Nationals which were held on the grounds of GALOT Motorsports Park. The race, which...

The Tiny Details: The Skid Factory Sort Out The 20-Valve Head In Their MR2 Project!

For nine years, I carried the title of “Armament, Avionic and Electrical Technician”. Sounds pretty badass, right? Here’s how in-depth it truly was: I made sure that a Browning M2...

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A New Coupe On The Way? Genesis May Have A Mustang Fighter In The Works

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Hyundai Genesis Coupe has become sort of a legend among the small KDM (Korean Domestic Market) community. With it’s very tunable 3.8-liter V6 and dual-clutch...