If you want to travel back in time and watch drag racing as it was in the 50s and 60s with rail jobs, hot rods, straight-axle Gassers, Super Stocks and the like then the Eagle Field Runway Drags is for you.

What is LS Fest you ask? Well, if you don’t know what a sloppy stage cam is or why your neighbor’s kid is putting an engine from an old U Haul truck in their tuner car, you may have some ground to cover in catching up with modern power trains.

Fifty—yes 5-0—Dirty South Gassers and A/FXers joined 68 Funny Cars and 14 Fuel Altereds at the recent Funny Car Chaos Nitro Madness event at Billy Meyer's Texas Motorplex.

There’s no denying that among the fastest cars on earth are those that race at Bonneville and El Mirage—but is racing on salt or dirt the only form of land speed racing?

Who said drag racing was dead?  Not if you went to Funny Car Chaos Nitro Madness it isn’t.

Auto-X — short for autocross— is a form of motorsport that has been around for decades and has provided many drivers a safe and technical place to test their skill and machine.

It was gonna be hot: Hot Chevys—some of the most amazing ever built—and hot shoes, like Al Unser Jr. in the Speedway Camaro, K&N Race Team Driver, Danny Popp…

Celebrities, classics, customs, hot rods, muscle cars, racecars, cacklefests, motorcycles, trucks: You name it, the O’Reilly Auto Parts Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) has it all and more.

The world maybe crippled by Covid 19 but in New Zealand (NZ), the Jalopy Dust Up was a dusty-fun way to see in 2021.

You might not want to admit it but I know you’ve done it. I’ve done it too. I’m just as guilty of street racing as the next guy.

I was making plans to attend the 99th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb when I received a call from my friend Cam Douglas of Optima Batteries.

Let’s be honest, we’ve all been suffering a little cabin fever lately. TorqTalk has been fortunate, however, to have been invited to some really cool events, even if they have had limited attendance and participants.

We’re huge fans of drifting here at Torq Talk, so when the finals were being held in our backyard it was an event we couldn’t miss.

Hot rods, sedans, sports cars, streamliners and motorcycles break a total of 29 records at the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) season finale at El Mirage dry lake, California.

In the market for your dream car? Well, there is no better place to find it than Barrett-Jackson. Unfortunately, 2020 threw a curve ball on what in January seemed like another great auction year.

Steve Gibb’s Nitro Revival had been cancelled and the weather forecast said rain all around the Southern California basin except for a small ray of sunshine over Willow Springs, CA. Sports cars, sports racers, post World War II formula cars plus big tire muscle cars of the Trans Am era such as Corvettes, Mustangs, the odd Mopar and some vintage NASCARs.

You can smell hot oil and burning rubber even if you are wearing a face mask at the Goodwood Speed Week. Sun shone, and more than 220 historic cars competed in 10 different races, once on Saturday and once again on Sunday.

It’s definitely different to have a season opener in October but such was 2020 when pretty much every event around the world was, well, different.

In 1971, ‘Mr. Cobra’ Lynn Park, Tom McIntyre and a bunch of their friends got together to organizer the very first Cobra Owners Club of America Open Track Day at Willow Springs International Raceway.

Time was every city in So-Cal had a dragstrip or, so it seemed. Those days are long gone as urbanization gradually disappeared many of those tracks.