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Show Gallery: Our Final Look At The ACCS Power Vårmarknad Meet In Sweden!

(Photos: Mårten Carlsson) We are grateful to Mårten Carlsson for sharing his photos of the ACCS Power Vårmarknad meet at Lidköping Arena in Sweden, and Arlid Guldbrandsen for tipping us off....

A Roll Cage Building Video That Will Impress The Hell Out Of You

Building Roll Cages is a hard job. It takes a lot of practice to be good at it, and it also takes patience, math, and the right tools. This guy has them. In this video, JR Garage builds a cage in...

How To Build Your Own Metal Fender Flares To Fit Big Tires On Your Project

No matter how much you do to the chassis of your pro touring machine, there is still only so much tire you can fit under it and still be able to steer with the kind of geometry needed to quickly...

Hot Rod Garage Makes A 512 Cubic Inch Stroker Out Of A Throwaway Block And Jams It Into This Awesome Fury Station Wagon!

Laying around in the Hot Rod Garage arena was one particular 400 cubic inch Mopar big-block. And it had a sad tale: it was in the truck that Freiburger originally bought to use as an engine donor for...

This Off-Road Race Is Not What You Would Expect, Sand, Tunnels, And Switchbacks Oh My

When this one was sent to us I had no clue this race would turn out like it did. Watch. We’ve never seen a downhill race, in the sand, like it. It’s entertaining as hell, and we can only...

Carnage At ChallengerFest7: Slicks Plus Traction Equals Big Breakage, As We Will Now Demonstrate…

If there was a noise when it happened, it was drowned out by burnouts. All we knew was that one car refused to burn out and the driver kept pointing to the black Dodge Challenger that was coasting...

Watch Evan Tear It Up In The TCI Equipped 1963 Chevy II On The Goodguys Autocross

A couple weeks ago the Goodguys was getting ready to start one of their hometown events in Pleasanton California. Meanwhile, Evan’s little Nova was sitting with a broken transmission after...

Rough Start: Stuffing Ten Pounds Into A Five-Pound Bag With A 440-Powered Chrysler PT Cruiser!

Chrysler’s PT Cruiser was a hit for the company at the turn of the millennium. Funky micro hot-rod styling, Neon underpinnings, and a cute and friendly aura that seemed to just draw in the...

Watch a marshal nearly turn himself into a Toyota hood ornament at a touring car race

The British Touring Car Championship opened its 2016 campaign a few days ago at the famed Brands Hatch Circuit, the version of which the BTCC uses is a short bullring of a track built into a...

eBay Find: The 1979 Cadimino. Luxury, Meet Utility, Homebuilt Ingenuity, And Open-Air Motoring!

We would love to have been nearby when this idea was hatched: take the nose of a 1979 Cadillac, graft it onto the back half of a stepside Chevy truck, hack the roof off, dress the interior up, and do...

Triple Threat Corvette! A Guy Is Using A 1977 Corvette For Daily Driver, Autocross, And Rallycross Duty!

A lot of car guys out there that have a cool race car or toy often have a more mundane and reliable daily driver, which more times than not is a boring appliance or maybe a useful truck or family...

Australian Pro Stock racer takes a short flight during ANDRA race

In January, Australian Pro Stock racer Bill Perdikaris ripped his Ford ZX2 down the right side of Calder Park’s strip during an Australian National Pro Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) event and...

Car Show Galleries: More Coverage Of Sweden’s Bilsport Elmia Motor Show!

(Photos: Mårten Carlsson) We’re back with more coverage from Sweden’s Bilsport Elmia Motor Show, which was held over Easter weekend. We can’t get enough of the automotive diversity...

Hellcat Everything! Modern Mopar Extreme Is Now Offering 6.2L Hellcat Hemi Crate Engine

It’s six-point-two liters of barely contained, all-American anger being force-fed by a 2.3L IHI supercharger. It produces enough torque to pin a driver so hard into the seat that it hurts, and...