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RacingJunk Find: Get Your Mopar On With This 604ci Predator Headed Mill Based Off A Hemi Block

If you are a die hard Mopar guy or girl looking for your next power plant, we may have found you the hot ticket for sale on RacingJunk.com. Coming out of the Salt Lake City, Utah area is a 604ci,...

MAHLE Motorsports Releases PowerPak Piston Kit for Wissota B-Mod Concept Engines (Ford and Chevy)

For those unfamiliar with the stock car racing scene around the country, the Wissota organization is a massive one. Racers from Montana, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Idaho, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Manitoba,...

Watch The Awesome 1988 NHRA Gatornationals Right Here – Great Race, Great Stories!

The 1988 NHRA Gatornationals event was a barn burner. We’re talking about all the big names, all the big action, underdog stories, and packed stands. Back in the era of the ’88 season,...

Developing Taste: This W111 Mercedes Coupe Is A Pre-Production Beauty

Mercedes products are a strange thing for me…either I love them or I hate them, there is no in-between. For example: I love the W210 body E55 AMG, I think that for a sporting sedan it combines...

The “WTF?” Files: Is This 2005 Jeep Wrangler X The Best Jeep Ever?

Cale Smith gets the award for the farthest my eyebrows have raised in the “WTF” face motion to date from me. And they did it all with one 2005 Jeep Wrangler X. Not the Jeep...

Engine Autopsy: Here’s A Look Inside The Ill-Fated DeBoss Garage 16-Cylinder Detroit Diesel

About a week ago we showed you the DeBoss Garage video of the guys buying a junkyard Detroit Diesel V16 engine, getting it running, and then blowing the sucker up for fun. It was going to be crushed...

Life’s Not All Crushing Cars And Fun In The Life Of A Monster Truck Driver! Check This Out!

How hard can it be to be a monster truck driver…really. You wake up, dress up in the kit, get into the truck, spend a couple of hours going balls-out for a screaming crowd, then you break the...

Money No Object: The 1971 Plymouth Rapid Transit System Road Runner

Building a car for sale is difficult, make no mistake. Between engineers, stylists, and the corporate structure, bringing a car to market is a long, drawn-out pain in the backside most of the time....

Pro Mod Action Gallery: These Images From Orlando and The World Outlaw Nationals Will Get You Ramped Up!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Last weekend at Orlando Speed World, just outside of Orlando, Florida one of the baddest door slammer races in the country took place as well as one of the most...

The World’s Newest Drag Strip Just Opened In Kuwait: Check Out The Action From Kuwait Motor Town! (Photos and More)

(By Tim Hailey) – The drag racing-crazed nation of Kuwait finally saw the opening of its long awaited new dragstrip at Kuwait Motor Town last week, and the result was an over-the-top festival...

The Hot Wheels Legends Tour Is Happening Again For 2019! Think Your Car Has What It Takes To Impress?

Last year Hot Wheels kicked off the Legends tour. The premise is simple: at stops across the country, vehicles that are chosen by judges at each stop on the tour were grouped together in a final...

Big Fail: This Video Is Nine Minutes of Cringe-Worthy Dump Truck Fails – How?!

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to drive a dump truck and for a while I got to do that. As a CDL holder and a guy who was hustling to pay the bills for a few years, I would pick up odd jobs and...

The 4.2L Checker Build: A Marathon Build Session In The Cold

Retrofitting a modern engine into a car whose overall design was more-or-less stuck in the 1950s is never going to be a cakewalk. Trying to get the work done in the snow and cold will leave even the...

OPGI Is Having A Clearance/Overstock Sale – The Parts List Is Long And The Discounts Deep

This is cool and interesting. OPGI is having a clearance/overstock sale and the list of every available part for sale is at the link below. We’re talking everything from Pontiac Ram Air pieces...