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Brittany Force collected her third Wally of 2016 after winning Top Fuel Sunday at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals in Brainerd, MN. (Image/Autoweek) Brittany Force raced to her third career victory in Top Fuel Sunday at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. Del Worsham in Funny Car, Drew Skillman in Pro Stock,

(Image/BangShift) Wait. Challenger? That thing got a HEMI in it? Actually, it has two. And those two 500-cubic-inch V8s powered Danny Thompson’s Challenger 2 streamliner to a new 406.7 miles-per-hour land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats this week for the 2016 edition of Speed Week. Perhaps more significantly, Thompson—son of Mickey Thompson—broke his

RENO, NV — Hot August Nights has come and gone. Street rods, customs, and vintage trucks were out in mass quantities at this year’s 30th anniversary show thanks to the beautiful weather and full slate of events. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t share some of the incredible muscle cars from the 2016 show. More than

[portfolio_slideshow id=56019] RENO, NV. — Don’t call Les Stuart’s 1967 Mustang GT500 “Eleanor.” It has its own name, thank you very much. And while you may also be tempted to call Stuart’s “Pit Viper” GT500 an Eleanor clone, that label doesn’t do it justice either. “A lot of people clone Eleanor, but Eleanor can be a much better car,” Stuart

RENO, NV — Fifty of the nation’s top custom cars competed for the first-ever Hot August Nights Cup and part of $100,000 in cash and prizes. It’s one of the largest overall prize purses offered in any collector car competition in the world, and a familiar car wound up with the top prize. Billy and Debbie Thomas’ Ridler Award-winning 1939 Oldsmobile

NHRA officials postponed the Northwest Nationals Sunday and announced the Top Fuel and Funny Car finals will conclude in two weeks at Brainerd, and Pro Stock will finish at the following event at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis. In Top Fuel, Steve Torrence will face Antron Brown in the finals. In Funny Car, Del Worsham

Sprint Car champion and Indy racer Bryan Clauson died Sunday from injuries suffered in a Saturday-night wreck during the Belleville Midget Nationals in Belleville, KS. He was 27. Clauson, a promising driver who dominated the dirt-track ranks, racked up more than 70 USAC wins, including the USAC National Sprint Car Championship and the USA National

RENO, NV — It took Dermie Close 20 years to build his “Dream Truck” 1948 Chevrolet pickup. It took him one trip to Hot August Nights in Reno, NV to earn a Grand Champion award. In his first visit to Hot August Nights, Close will go back home to Las Vegas with the Summit Racing Downtown

RENO, NV — The Hot August Nights Auction presented by Motorsport Auction Group (MAG) kicked off on Friday at the Reno Convention Center. Headliners for this year’s auction include a 1939 General Motors Futurliner #3 “Power of the Air Age.” Customized by Utah-based auto designer and builder Dave Kindig of Kindig-It Designs, the Futurliner will cross

[portfolio_slideshow id=55947] RENO, NV — Larry Soto already had a discerning eye for cool hot rods when he bought this 1935 Ford Slant Back from a friend in 2009. “Years and years ago I used to judge cars, so I knew what I was looking for,” Soto said. “I saw this car and knew exactly what I wanted