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Real Good At Doin’ Stuff Video: Cleetus Mcfarland Wins A No Prep Event!

This look into the No Prep racing world, through the eyes of Peter Harrell and Cleetus McFarland’s Mullet race El Camino is one you won’t see everyday. Either people don’t want to...

Cool Video: The Interesting History Of Tony Stewart’s Last Winning NASCAR Stock Car

Race cars are ultimately tools or implements designed to get a specific job done in a specific way. They are not things that have feelings, a brain, or the ability to communicate. Well, sometimes we...

Happy 4-27: We’re Celebrating with Ford and Chevy 427 Dyno Videos!

This is the best “displacement week” of the year in our opinion. We get the click off some of the best engines the big three ever produced in this one series of days.  Other than the 426...

How To Build A Channeled Hot Rod: The Working Man’s Model A Sedan Part 20 – Building The Rear Suspension

The body is mostly done, the patch panels are in, the floors are done, the firewall has been setup and all kinds of stuff is getting close, but now it is time to start on suspension so that this...

Flying Sparks Starts Working On The Rough C6 Corvette’s T56: Part 5 – Installing And Testing To See If It Works Now!

It had lots of broken parts, they took them out and installed new ones, and now this thing is going back into their C6 Corvette to see if it actually works. We’ve all been there, building...

Tre5 Customs Twin Turbo C10 Feature: Low, With Twins, And Lots Of Attitude

The guys at Tre5 build some pretty cool trucks, and I always like watching their feature videos that come along when a project is ready to get delivered to the owner. These aren’t super sexy...

Junkyard Finds: 1956 Buick Station Wagon, A 1960 Chevy, A Dart And A Duster, Just To Name A Few!

Chad is back at it! More junkyard crawls as he scours the midwest looking for more cars and trucks to add to his awesome wrecking yard. Check out these cool finds. They may be rough, but they are...

Amelia Island Concourse d’Elegance: Muscle Cars, Customs, Exotics, And Classics All In One Place? With Wine And Cheese? Check It Out!

We’ve got another great gallery of photos from Amelia Island thanks to Joe Grippo. If you missed any of our other photos, use the link below to check them all out. (Words and Photos by Joe...

The Race Of Gentleman: Even More Epic Traditional Hot Rods And Race Cars On A Historic Airfield

(Photos by Wes Allison) We’ve got so many photos from TROG, because it is just too easy to capture awesomeness at this event. Seriously, this is one of the coolest events of the year and if...

Spinning Wheel Stud & Seized Lug? What Would You Do?

So here’s the scenario… You go to rotate the tires on your car, or truck, or your wife’s car or truck, and you find that one lug nut won’t come off. Like any good mechanic,...

Did Anyone On The Planet Actually Think This WASN’T Going To Be Horrific? The Cleetus DANGER RANGER 9000 On Dirt Was INSANE!!!

While I’m a huge fan of taking crap cars and trucks out and racing them against each other in the name of fun, I don’t think anyone with more than two brain cells thought the Danger...

2023 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet – The Iron Trap Boys Found Some Gold!!

Carlisle, the name alone just makes hot rodders drool. It is one of those iconic swap meets that signals the start of hot rodding season, and gets east coasters out and about to collect more parts...

WHICH ONE MAKES MORE 5.0L HP, E7 HEADS & CAM 347 STROKER OR HCI 302? WHAT ABOUT WHEN WE ADD BOOST?

Is cubes always better? Or should you just make the engine size you have work more efficiently? Is adding heads, cam and intake improvements to your stock displacement small block the way to go or...

PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Here’s Our Final PDRA Gallery From GALOT

Our final gallery of photos from the PDRA East Coast Nationals at Galot is below, and we can’t thank David Whealon enough for sharing them with all of us. If you missed any of them so far, use...