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Mazada Turns 100 Years Old: We Look Back At Three Of Their Most Important Cars

(Words by Tom Lohnes) – Mazda, the famed Japanese Automaker, is now 100 years old. Mazda has made some of the most iconic cars of all time, and they have all left their mark on the world both...

Random Car Review: The 1962-64 Facel Vega Facel II – An American In Paris

There is an image that certain late 1950s-mid 1960s expensive grand tourer coupes present, and in short, that image looks a lot like James Bond, Mad Men and, to an extent, the namesake of the...

A Mighty Unicorn: This 1957 Dodge Town Wagon Power Wagon Is Incredible! 315ci Hemi, Factory Power Steering

One of one. One of bloody one ever made! That’s what this 1957 Dodge Town Wagon Power Wagon is. The only truck ever known to have been built with power steering, it has a 315ci Power Giant...

The WideLux At Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest: Dyno, Burnout, And More!

It’s been a few months since the first Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest, but the memories of Fat Erik’s Powerstroke-powered Toyota “WideLux” on the autocross course is...

Piston Tech Video: Learn All You Ever Wanted To Know About Piston Coatings With MAHLE Motorsport

When it comes to piston coatings, there’s lots of stuff that people think they know and lots of stuff that’s just flat out wrong. In this video you are going to learn all you ever wanted...

Classic YouTube: Piston King Motor Oil’s “Trailer Towing Test”

In these times of not wanting to go run errands out of fear of someone coughing (or worse, you coughing because of springtime allergies and winding up getting bug-bombed with disinfectant while...

QuarantinePiece Theater: The Devil at Your Heels – The Story Behind the Failed One Mile Car Jump – More Than an Hour of Awesome

You’ve got time on your hands and we know you are looking for good stuff to watch. People are watching loads of hot garbage about tigers and other junk. We’re gear heads and you deserve...

Chrysler Suspension Setup With Uncle Tony! Here’s His Recipe For Making A Mopar Move Out!

“Power is nothing without control”. That’s the quote, and the quote is solid. You can bring enough horsepower to start the engine of an SR-71 Blackbird to the party, but if you...

Stupid Gearhead Storytime: Doing The Most With The Least At The Junkyard!

With all the “social distancing” and “stay-at-homing” going on right now, some of us have been fortunate enough to have been given a time out from the typical daily rat race....

Delayed: ECTA’s April 2020 Event – COVID-19 Claims Another One

We managed to get at least one major event under our belt before everything went completely haywire this year when Chad got to go out to the ECTA Spaceport Invitational in February for the first of...

Pimp: This 1983 Chrysler Imperial Has 400+ Cubic Inches, A Smoothed Body, and Some Heavy Rake – Interior For Days

Listen McTaggart, don’t blame me! You are going to have to blame Rocco for this one. He’s our ace cruiser of all things on-line car ads and the dude knows how to pick them. As we all know...

Rough Start: 1981 Mercury Cougar XR-7 – Give The Cat Some Claws, Will You?

Everybody thinks of the Mustang when Fox bodies are brought up. When you tell them to move past Mustangs, they go to Fairmonts. Everything else seems to be second field…but in the grand scheme...

Buy Your Own Race Track! Spencer Speedway In New York Is For Sale, Fully Functional, And A Definite Good Time.

Anyone who’s seen what Cleetus and the crew are doing with the Freedom Factory has thought how cool it would be to own a race track. And anyone who’s ever met a track owner over the years...