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Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Is Getting A Custom Build DIY Rear Swaybar

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the rear suspension get some...

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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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2017 Grand National Roadster Show: We’ve Not Yet Begun To (Photo) Fight!

The Pomona Fairplex is an interesting place and it is a pretty important place in American motorsports history we’d say. The drag strip there is the oldest operating track in the country, the...

Watch The Professional Final Rounds At The 1992 NHRA Winternationals

Well here’s a total gem to start your Thursday with. Here’s what the professional class final rounds looked like 25 years ago at the NHRA Winternationals. The names are familiar, the...

Snow Riding Fun: Blasting Through The Woods In The Middle Of Winter Looks Awesome!

I’m not saying that I miss snow, or that I would want any more than I’ve already seen this winter. It was bad enough that I had to extract Angry Grandpa from the ditch that the Chrysler...

2017 US Street Nationals Coverage: Pro Modified Action Photos From Bradenton

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We were fortunate to have Benoit Pigeon on the scene at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida to blast photos of the 2017 US Street Nationals as they happened....

Grand National Roadster Show 2017: The Photo Assault Continues!

So we’re continuing on with our massive onslaught of 2017 Grand National Roadster Show. You’re welcome. As pretty much all of you know, the Roadster Show isn’t just about roadsters....

Question Of The Day: At What Point Do You Feel Sorry For A Poorly-Modified Car?

Sorry, probably should’ve warned you first, but hey…at least there is no question about what I mean about “feeling sorry” for a car. The case in point is a Mitsubishi...

Texas Raptor Run Action Part 2 – More Fun Rippin’ It Up

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with part two of Charles Wickam’s photo log from his visit to the Texas Raptor Run Raptor X event at the Texas Rally Ranch in Dale. As a...

This Nasty Twin Turbo Dodge Rumble Bee Truck Tries To Spin The Dyno Rollers Right Out Of The Floor

The Dodge Rumble Bee truck was kind of neat for its time. While it had no real discernible performance parts on it outside of the big 20″ wheels, the attitude was right. It wore a stripe...

This 1981 Toyota Truck Is Amazingly Clean And A Total Throwback – Want Is Strong!

There was a theme I picked up on as a kid here in New England. That theme was rapidly disappearing Japanese trucks. I don’t mean like being stolen by aliens, I mean like evaporating from road...

Demon Watch: The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Loses 232 Pounds The Good Old Fashioned Way…

So the upcoming Dodge Challenger SRT Demon has lost weight. Surely, the massive wall of people screaming “About time!” will be satisfied that Mopar’s muscle car has finally shed...

Banrstormin’: A Weekend With The Outlaws

(Lead image credit: SpeedVideo.com) – I’m not going to lie, rolling into Bradenton Motorsports Park last weekend felt pretty damned good. It isn’t like it has been a great while...

Mickey Thompson Set To Release New Deegan 38 All-Terrain Tire – Great For Towing And Wheeling

In today’s world, the all-terrain light truck tire is the workhorse of any tire company’s product range. Mickey Thompson had a solid lineup of truck tires already but things are going to...

Ooga Booga Intake and Carbs: This CFE Sheet Metal Intake Manifold Plumbed For Nitrous and Topped With Split Dominators Rules

A little while back Chad posted a story about how tunnel rams were good for America and that everyone out there should own one. While I cannot assail his logic on that front I can say that while cast...

Watch Mark Woodruff Crash In The Pro Drag Radial Warz Final At The US Street Nationals

There are a couple of wild finals at the 2017 US Street Nationals and we have both of them on the blog for you today. The Limited Drag Radial final saw one car blow up and the other wheelie through...