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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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Would You Try To Paint Your Own Car At Home? Or Is The Thought Just Too Scary?

To build a car or truck at home you have to possess certain skills. Which skills depends on the depth of your project, with some requiring nothing but the ability to remove and replace parts. But...

Removing And Replacing The Door Skins On A Camaro Isn’t The Hardest Job Ever. Watch How To Do It Here.

We can think of a lot of bodywork jobs that are way way worse than taking the door skins off a muscle car and replacing them. With simple tools that any average gearhead has in their garage, you can...

Classic YouTube: The First Year Of The Boeing 707

When you observe commercial air travel and how it grew from it’s beginnings to modern day, you see it grow in steps. From a spare passenger on a small biplane, to the Ford TriMotor, to the...

Crankin’ Away: Waking Up A Minneapolis Moline M602 From It’s Long Sleep!

If you have never, ever driven a tractor…no, not a lawn tractor, we’re talking the real-deal, hay-cutting, bush hogging, lump of iron and steel that will drag a plow, tow a trailer around...

Force, Todd, Enders, Smith Killing It In Las Vegas! NHRA Qualifying Results And Video From Friday Is Right Here.

Brittany Force leads an all star cast of Pros who are killing it at the NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas this weekend. This group knows all about being on top and taking home a win, so they are all going...

The Challenger Revival, Part 5: The Rust Assessment – How Crispy Is The Derelict E-Body?

Dylan McCool’s 1973 Dodge Challenger project has been coming along nicely. That’s not too surprising…he’s genuinely been all over this car ever since he dragged it home, and...

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Here’s A Preview Of Some Of The Bad Ass Rides You’ll See At The SEMA Show Next Week! We’ll Get Photos Of All Of Them

With the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas starting in just a couple days, you know that we are going to be running around and jamming tons of photos together for our coverage from this epic event. The...

The “WTF?!” Files: 1983 Toyota Celica GT, With About Four Times The Engine Inside!

You really can’t knock Toyota for copying American musclecars of the day. They were selling and Japanese manufacturers were looking for any kind of inroad into the American market. Datsun went...

A Dose Of LSJ: This Evil Kart Creation Is Proof That Light Is Right

On the whole, there isn’t much to enjoy about a Chevrolet Cobalt or a Saturn Ion coupe. Both cars espoused the things that were wrong with GM just before the economy made a noise surprisingly...

The 304 Holden Swap: This Kingswood Wagon Gains A Pair Of Cylinders!

Why is it that the more base-model cars are the ones that managed to survive decades relatively unscathed? Case in point: Go hunting for a Dodge Aspen R/T and you’re going to see more rust than...

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Morning Symphony: The Gillet Vertigo GT3 – Ride Along As It Rips Around Spa!

The one interesting thing about Gran Turismo video games is that it introduced players to cars that they thought had to be pure fantasy. I’ll admit, I was suckered. The Suzuki Escudo? Surely...

Unhinged: DeSotos And Fargos And Luminas – The Middle East Car Diaries

According to the paperwork that tracked every move I made in the Army, I spent the better part of two years in the Middle East. For that time, I was either in Kuwait or Iraq. And for the majority of...

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Money No Object: Dear Santa, This 1965 Dodge Coronet Ragtop Is All We Need!

Dear Santa, I am not writing to you this early because everybody seems to think that the Christmas season starts six seconds after Halloween ends. Hardly the case…there is still plenty of time...

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2019 Fall Mad Mule Photo Coverage: Check Out These Action Images From The Strip At GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon and David Whealon) – We’re back with another installment of photos from the Fall 2019 Mad Mule at GALOT Motorsports Park in North Carolina. Yesterday we took you...