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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Great Chase: BMW’s New Film The Escape Is A Great Watch!

Remember about 15 years ago when BMW released a series of short films highlighting a mysterious driver that did awesome stuff, like make Madonna whiz her shorts in the back seat? Well he’s back...

Watch The 2017 Camaro ZL1 Rip Around The ‘Ring A Full 12-Seconds Faster Than The Last One

When you make a car lighter, more powerful, and pack more technology into it there’s an expectation of increased performance but the boys at Chevrolet may have really out done themselves this...

Watch The Golden Gorilla Actually Become One – The Behind The Scenes Story Of The $60,000 SGMP Win

There have been some great seasons put together by racers in the drag radial world over the last decade but it will be very difficult to best the effort put forth by DeWayne Mills and his entire crew...

The Beast Of Turin Goes On A Road Trip! No Kidding, A 300 Mile Cruise!

Since its unveiling the amazing Beast of Turnin Fiat S76 has been a sensation. The car was built in 100 years ago to shatter land speed records and it did so handily. The car was twice as fast as the...

eBay Find: Would You Pay $60,000 For 100 Four Speed Cores? Vintage Stuff And Lots Of It

This is an interesting eBay ad and question. There are 100 four speed cores for sale from this one seller and if you are in the restoration business it seems like this transaction may make sense but...

Leno Breaks Out His 1918 Stutz Bearcat – Which Is More Strange, It’s Former Owner Or That This Car Has Cutouts?

Pre-war cars normally aren’t in my wheelhouse of interest. I appreciate the history, I appreciate seeing how technology advanced from the first horseless carraiges to what we have today, but...

More Great Hot Rods and Customs From NSRA 2016 – They Keep On Coming!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – One thing to appreciate on the early cars is how many different customizing touches work on the body styles.  Chopping, sectioning, channeling, filling,...

Really Rough Start: How Would You Build This Roller Four-Eye Fox From The Rust Belt

Searching through any Ohio-area Craigslist ads usually leave me feeling like the two Stormtroopers afro-picking the desert in the movie “Spaceballs”. It’s the rust belt for a...

More Awesome Cars and Hot Rods From The Street Machinery Open House

(Photos by Brooks/Ferrer) – When Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer got home from their trip to the Street Machinery shop in Ohio, they could hardly contain themselves over how great the cars, the...

Say “VTEC” Again, I Dare You: Jeff Lutz, Jr.’s Wicked Twin-Turbo Small-Block Honda Is One Mean Little Bastard!

I have no shame in admitting it: Any and every Honda that claims to be wicked and fast has to prove itself to me before I nod my head in agreement. Case in point: during a test-and-tune night, a...

Watch Jay Payne Wipe Out The Tree In A Funny Car At Las Vegas Circa 2015

As I’ll be spending the better part of a month in and around the greater Las Vegas area starting on Wednesday, I have been thinking of some entertaining stuff that has happened at The Strip...

Answering The Call Of The Blower With A 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!

Normally, this is where I’d put some cheesy line about “Autumn is blower season”, but seriously…blower cars don’t have a season unless you live in a place where you risk...

Watch This Ferrari’s Championship Hopes Turn Into a Pile of Broken Carbon Fiber

It’s been an up-and-down year for JMW Motorsports. The British sports car team have regularly competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for several years but were denied an entry to Le Mans this year....

BangShifty Open House Action! Street Machinery Opened Its Doors And Hot Rodders Kicked ‘Em Down

(Words – Mike Brooks – Photos – Brooks, Jose Ferrer) –  For more than 24 years, Street Machinery in Euclid, Ohio has been in the custom and hot rod business. Owner Boris...