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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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Unclean Run: This Evil Little Ford Fiesta Still Has More On Tap!

I’ll say it…that run was not pretty. The launch was more of a bounce and it took precious time to get the little Ford oriented and laying down the power properly. But the timeslip does...

Rough Start: 1980 Pontiac Sunbird – The Perfect Car To Get In Trouble With

My mother had a very keen awareness of just what kind of hooligan I was going to become the moment I got my driver’s license. She knew. From childhood, she had seen everything…the Mustang...

Classic YouTube: The Opening Battle At The 1981 James Hardie 1000

What is the difference between people racing each other during an event, and a straight-up battle? How can you tell when drivers aren’t concerned about every other car and instead have dialed...

Video: Rod Emory’s Porsche 356 RSR Is A Hot Rod That’s Also Purebred Porsche – So Cool!

When the world’s best builders, especially those that have a specialty get creative ideas to build the cars that THEY have always dreamed of owning, magic happens. In the world of Porsche Rod...

Holley Releases Mid Mount Accessory Drive Systems for GM Gen V LT4/LT5 Engines

It can be one of the most vexing and frustrating parts of an engine swap, the accessory drive! Holley knows this and that is why they have developed a mid-mouth accessory drive system for GM Gen V...

2019 GALOT Motorsports Park Nostalgia Drags and Muscle Car Shakedown: More Action Photos From The Event

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We’re back with more great Benoit Pigeon photos from GALOT Motorsports Park in North Carolina and courage of their fall Nostalgia Drags and Muscle Car...

2019 Kneeland Concours Photo Coverage: Muscle Car Era Classics On The Field Of Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Mostly classic American muscle in this chapter of the Concours coverage.  You won’t find labels on the photos explaining what you’re looking at from...

Flamin’ Videos: It Was A Tough Weekend To Be A Top Fuel Engine In Dallas – A Couple Of Flaming Boomers Here

It’s never an easy gig to be a top fuel engine, right? Even on the best days you are trying to contain and harness the impossible fury of 11,000 horsepower and fighting all of the strains and...

Watch David “Little Evil” Pearson Reset The PRO 275 Record At No Mercy 10 With A 3.90-Second Rip

There are certain cars that transcend time, they transcend classes, and they really help to define a genre of drag racing. David and Tracy’s Pearson’s Calypso Green Mustang is one of...

Classic YouTube: The Story Of The Blue Flame’s Record Run In 1970 By One Of The Men Who Built It!

Would you look at the date: October 23rd. In 1970, that was the day that Gary Gabelich strapped into the wheeled missile that is the Blue Flame at Bonneville, lit the candle and quite literally...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Newest “Quintessentially American” Car, In Your Eyes?

How many of you are old enough to remember the genuine anger that would be expressed if a foreign car showed up in the driveway? How many of you got an earful about how American cars were crap and...

Seized And Up For Auction: The Carpoff Collection Government Liquidation

149 vehicles, many of which are dream machines that we’d donate body parts to science for, will be going up for auction on October 26, 2019 after being seized by the U.S. Government as part of...

HALT: Panic-Stopping Heavy Wheeled Vehicles (Plus Gratuitous Tank Crushing Footage Inside!)

Consider this video a three-in-one special, because that’s what you will get. Three different sections, all involving big machinery. We like our smaller, sporty machines just fine, but there is...

Ratty Muscle Cars Presents Mopar Vs. Brand-X: Racing Into The Cool Fall Night

All in all, for what looked to be a wash-out, the Mopar vs. Brand-X race in Alabama turned out to be a great time. Austin Griggs’ recipe for fun hasn’t changed since the first Ratty...