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Strip Cruiser: Las Vegas Is The Only Place Where This Caddy Droptop Needs To Be!

Within a few hours, I’ll be on a plane heading out to Las Vegas in my annual pilgrimage to the SEMA Show. I love Vegas. In short doses, it just enough of the fringe edge of insanity and fun,...

Classic YouTube: Where Godzilla’s Legend Began, Round 6 Of The 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship!

When Mark Skaife took the green flag at Mallala for the sixth round of the Australian Touring Car Championship, the Nissan Skyline was just an import running with Ford and Holden. The HR31 Skyline, a...

Carbon Fiber VS Fiberglass: The Composite Series Continues. There Is More Than Weight To Consider.

When it comes to composite racing components, one of the frequently asked questions is “What are the main differences between fiberglass and carbon fiber parts?” In this episode of the...

The C-10 Clash Continues: Episode 3 Has Marcel’s Truck Getting Low, Wide, And Curried.

There are three generations of C series trucks. The original, and often forgotten, started in 1960 and went until 1966. The C series everyone always seems infatuated with, the 1967-1972 models, came...

No Limit Promotions Moser Engineering Triple Crown $25,000 Bracket Race IS LIVE RIGHT HERE!

When No Limit Promotions started their racing season this year, it was their first time as event promoters. This is a whole new series. With big money bracket racing at an all time high, the No Limit...

The BTE Southern Footbrake Challenge Drag Race Is LIVE RIGHT HERE!

The Southern Footbrake Challenge at Holly Springs Motorsports Park is everything you expect from wheels up footbrake drag racing. No delay boxes and no trans brakes mean this is swapping feet at...

Morning Symphony: Like You Wouldn’t Jump At The Chance To Drift A Ferrari In The Snow

There might be other cars in this video, including BMWs and Porsches, but honestly, there is only one car here that I care about, and that would be the Alitalia-liveried Ferrari 308 GTB Group 4...

This Hemi Powered D100 Gets An Aeromotive Phantom In-Tank Fuel System

(Words and Photos by Matt Graves) Hot Rodding, at it’s core, is basically upgrading old stuff with bigger and faster stuff. Sometimes this means embracing new technology with some of us kicking...

Super-Low Mile And Street-Driven: The House Of Muscle Checks Out Killer Mike’s 1996 Impala SS

It was long, low, and mean….everything that the Chevrolet Caprice was not, unless you were on the business end of some police officers who had an issue with you. It was snorty and had guts for...

GM Is Asking The Government To Increase The Gas Mileage Standard And More…Thoughts?

It’s often easy to say that manufacturers don’t care about consumers, so long as the money is filling the coffers. Not entirely wrong, it is? As long as people are lining up to buy...

Here Are Friday’s Number One Qualifiers From The NHRA Toyota Nationals In Las Vegas

NHRA’s Toyota Nationals is Round 23 of 24 in NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and fans from all over the west have flocked to Las Vegas for this one. They are hoping to see Championship...

A Home-Built RV That Isn’t Scary! This 1942 Chevrolet G506 Army Truck Is Beautiful!

World War II ramped up manufacturing in the United States like nothing else had before. Factories cranked out ships, planes, trains and trucks by the millions in the name of the War Effort. Everyone...

Records Fell Like Flies At The Southern California Timing Association’s First El Mirage Meet Of Fall

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Man the conditions at El Mirage could not have been much better this past weekend! I’ve been to El Mirage a bunch of times and can’t remember it being more...

The Exhumation: The 1983 Chrysler LeBaron That Got Buried Gets Dug Up! Will It Start, And Will It Talk?

At the beginning of this year, we showed you one man’s final answer for a K-car that proved to be too much to tolerate. Tyler Hoover of Hoovies’ Garage bought this 1983 Chrysler LeBaron...