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The Beer Money Mustang Tests A Magnetic Driver’s Education Sign. It’s Great To About 129, And Then It Gets No Bueno

Most every conversation we have about the Beer Money Mustang is at some point or another filled with laughter about something dumb that Lyle has done to, or with, the car. It never ceases to...

The Fiero Revival: Those Last-Minute Details Before Paint

Looking at a Pontiac Fiero that is without body panels reminds me of a plucked chicken before it’s prepared for cooking for some reason. It’s cool to see it taken down to the basic root...

Gen 3 HEMI Dyno Testing: Long VS Short Headers, Single Plane VS Stack Injection, And DIY Adjustable Stacks! Which One Makes The Most Power?

If you are going through the trouble of bolting an engine to an engine dyno, you really should be taking advantage of all the time you have to test as many things as possible. This is exactly what...

Take This Opportunity To Check Your Fire System, And Anything Else In Your Race Car That Might Be In A Stupid Spot!

Tim McAmis cracks me the F up. I don’t even know if he knows how to sugar coat something, and in his latest video he’s talking about fire system maintenance and revisions. He’s...

JUNKYARD TURBO BBC-MORE BONEYARD BOOST! Big Block Chevrolet For The Win!

Putting boost to junkyard engines is too much fun! I know it isn’t the same as building some bad ass racing engine, nobody is going to argue with you on that one, but man you can make some real...

Rough Start: 1975 Chrysler Newport – Big-Block, Hardtop, And Low Miles…What’s Missing?

The timeline keeps moving along, doesn’t it? When I was getting into cars, anything from the mid-1970s was available, relatively cheap to acquire, had a likely chance of at least being useful,...

Playing In Spaghetti: Mighty Car Mods’ Toyota MR2 Project Fights Until The First Start!

Poor Marty…I’ve never met the dude, I’ve never spoken to him, never traded emails, nothing. But watching him put this Toyota MR2 together has caused me to feel a ton of empathy...

Watch Our Encore Presentation Of The US131 Northern Nationals. Nitro Nostalgia Top Fuel, Funny Cars, And More!

Ready for some NITRO!!!!????? So are we! So based on that need, the need for tear inducing, nose running, oh so sweet and nice nitromethane powered machines, we are bringing you an encore...

A Brit Abroad: Rescuing A 1976 Triumph TR7 Out Of It’s 34-Year Parking Spot

Kevin and I talk quite a bit about the cars of Iowa. Namely, that most of what he runs into in his search for video content leads him to pickup trucks with flappy bedsides, Chrysler products that are...

Stevie Fast Jackson Explains Pro Mod Lock Up Torque Converters – This Isn’t Your Daily Driver Lock Up

Lock Up torque converters are nothing new in cars. They’ve been around for decades and have been instrumental in gas mileage gains, emissions improvements, and engine durability gains. The way...

The Mongrel Project Gets Paint!!! The Color Is On And Awesome Even If It Isn’t Perfect

When Matt from Urchfab had issues with a body shop that was going to paint his Mongrel project, he was mad but ultimately got over it and decided to jump head first into the “paint your own...

QuarantinePiece Theater: This Amazing Film Shows The 1966 and 1968 US Nationals In Full Color With Big Production Value!

This right here? This right here is absolute gold! This one video is actually two films kind of joined end to end to form one of the best examples of historic drag racing gold we have ever seen....

Project Isolation Restoration: The Teardown Continues and We Get Our Block Squeaky Clean

In part one of Project Isolation Restoration, we told you about the vintage engine that we scooped up to rebuild for fun during this downtime when there’ not much else to do. The mill, if you...

Buy Bunkie’s Intake: This 1956 Pontiac Dual Quad Setup Is Complete, Awesome, and Rare

Old parts have an aura not because they are old but because we largely know the history of how they came to exist. In this case, we have a factory 1956 Pontiac dual quad setup and it is 100% complete...