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Grand Plan: A Vega Hot Rod Project You Can Get For Only Ten Hundred Dollars!

Okay I lied, it’s only $950, but that doesn’t go with the theme here. The other day, while looking at my normal Craigslist stuff, I realized just how much cool stuff there is within two...

Actual NASCAR Dodge Charger Daytona For Sale On Ebay: One Of Less Than 10 Known To Exist, Raced By James Hylton, Only One To Suffer Fatal Wreck

Even road going Dodge Charger Daytonas are show stoppers. 45 years after they rolled off production lines as street versions of cars designed to dominate the high banks of NASCAR super speedways they...

BOOM Video! Watch This AMC Javelin In The Netherlands Explode Like It Is Packed Full Of TNT

So here’s a public service announcement to anyone who happens to find themselves in a mid 1970s AMC Javeling after it has caught on fire. RUN. Run like you are in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie...

Roadside Find: This Big Ass Truck Looks Like One That The Guys At Big Ass Trux Would Build!

While running errands yesterday look what we found! In a land that is dominated by four predominant classes of car, finding something outside the box is awesome. The predominant car categories near...

Watch The Daddy Dave S10 Leave The Starting Line With Fire In The Pipes And The Wheels UP At Kennedale Raceway

There are lots of wheelie videos out there on the internet. It is cool to see anything hike the front tires up in the air and leave the starting line like a scalded dog, but there is something to be...

Unhinged: There’s A New Porsche, It Costs $500, And You’re Still A Tool If You Spend The Money

Why…Why do I always get the press releases on automotive shoes? It never fails! First it was, of all things, the Nike meant to look like a DeLorean, complete with the taillight-colored sole....

Twin-Engined Freak Show: This Dodge SRT-4 Has Slicks On At All Four Corners For A Reason

The Dodge Neon SRT-4 is pretty impressive for an American attempt at a turbocharged front driver. Box-stock they would run 13.9 in the quarter and could be massaged for more power easily, which...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: There’s A Hamster Loose In There, Get It Out!

Facebook is a beautiful tool. It’s allowed your favorite disgruntled counter clerk to interact with some of the other disgruntled workers of the automotive trade, including dealership techs,...

The Mega X2 Company Builds The Biggest And Most Awesome Custom Trucks We Have Ever Seen – Factory Quality On A HUGE Scale

That’s not a photoshop job in the photo above, that’s a sample of the work done by a Utah company called Mega X2. They take big trucks and make them even bigger by stretching the frames,...

Car Feature: A 1935 Chevy Gasser That Is The Picture Of Perfection – Olds Motored Glory!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – See, when I saw this stunning 1935 Chevy coupe parked in the car show section at Beech Bend Raceway during the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, I immediately...

Holiday Season Loss Prevention: Remote-Control Plane Crashes!

The neatest toys to a lot of us, not counting the ones parked in the garage, are remote-control planes. These things can be as simple as the kit at the local hobby store, or can be as high-dollar as...

Houston Autorama 2014: From Stock Restored Chevys To 1960s Ford Woody Wagons It Was All Here

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – As we continue to assault your eyeballs with great Charles Wickam photos from the 2014 Houston Autorama, we’re seeing different parts and pieces of the show....

Place Your Bets For A BangShift Shirt! Buford T Justice Is Hitting The Dyno With This Engine One Last Time – Guess The Power And Win

That’s right kids, we’re tempting fate one last time with this whale of a car known as Buford T Justice before the current mongrel engine comes out for a creation that we’re going...

Watching This 1969 Chevy C30 Flatbed On The Autocross Course Is Both Hilarious And Tiring – This Driver Was Working Hard!

As you know, we love hot rodders with a sense of humor, we also love old trucks, and we love when guys get off of their asses and beat the crap out of their projects. All three of those bases are...