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Check Out Newbern’s Final project Car for 2023. This Is One Sweet 1930 Ford Model A. What Will He Do With It?

2023 was the year of the projects for Dave Newbern. This dude was so busy, and went to so many places, that it is no surprise how many cool projects followed him home from his adventures. The entire...

Watch The Oddball Banter Brothers Side-Seater Tractor In Action At The Indy Super Pull 30+ Years Ago

It is not exactly a hot take to say that Ralph and Dave Banter were the best team that tractor pulling has ever seen. The guys stacked up championships like cordwood, they were incredible innovators...

Flipping Wild: This Video Looks Back Into 1970s NASCAR And Showcases Some Of The Wildest Wrecks

Now that we’re a season in with the “Next Generation” NASCAR chassis and have learned its good and bad parts, the process of improving them, mostly for driver safety, is underway....

Small Wonder: Check Out This 1/3 Scale Cosworth DFV V8 Engine Both Running and In Detail!

We love miniature engines and when we see truly incredible examples of small engines we love sharing them with you. In this case it is a 1/3 scale Cosworth F1 DFV V8. The engine was built completely...

Featured Products: Unlock Next-Level Data Monitoring With The NEW RACEPAK DIGITAL DISPLAY!

Racepak has an all new line of digital dashes! Available in both a 6.86″ and 12.3″, this will feel like a rebadged version of the Holley EFI dashes everyone knows and loves, but there is...

What Happens When Your New Engine Is Bigger Than You Thought? Sally’s Speed Shop 289 Is NOT 289 Inches!

This never happens to us! Twice this year I’ve had friends who got engines thinking they were one thing and finding out they were, in fact, another thing completely. The first was Jared from...

Cool Gearhead History: Ads From The Pages Of Super Stock And Drag Illustrated Circa 1964-1966

So we’re back today with some killer ads from the 1960s. This time we assaulted the pages of Super Stock and Drag Illustrated to bring you a true capsule of the age through the ads that...

Watch This Land Rover 2.25L Four Banger Rebuild Itself In Time Lapse – Cool Video!

The true measure of an engine has to go far beyond its horsepower rating, right? As much as we love to fixate on stuff like that around here, there’s got to be more parameters to rightfully...

This 1973 Pontiac Firebird Promotional Video Features The Legendary Super Duty Engine And A Young Herb Adams!

From a purely personal perspective I think that the 1973 Pontiac Firebird is the best looking one of the entire line’s existence. It was also the first to have the awesome middle finger to the...

Alex Taylor Drives Her New VW Bug On Power Tour West! This Is A Fun Cali Style Car I Would Love To Own!

We’ve talked about Power Tour West on the PowerShift Podcast already but man did everyone have fun on this trip! So when Alex Taylor posted up this video from here adventures on the trip, where...

Derek From Vice Grip Garage Gets His Hands On Motion Raceworks 1,000HP ZZ632 GM Crate Engine “Work Truck” To Perform Some UPGRADES!

Well here we go! Derek has gotten his hands on the Motion Raceworks OBS Chevy pickup to make some upgrades and adjustments and boy is this thing going to be cool as hell. With the 1,000 horsepower...

World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet: Why Ruin A Perfectly Good 1957 Chevy With Paint? Only This Thing Ain’t Perfectly Good Dan!

He’s calling it the World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet, but after all the work that Dan has done to it, does it deserve to be welded up and metal finished and painted? You’ll see that this thing...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Welding The Pontiac Dash Into The GMC And Making It Look Like It Belongs

I love dash swaps, but only when they flow. Putting a 2015 Camaro dash and interior into a 1969 Camaro is ugly. I said it. It is. But putting a 1940 Ford dash into a 1969 Camaro would also be ugly....

Awesome Video: Look Inside ASC As They Hand Build 1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT Spyder VR4 Convertibles!

If there is a cooler company through the modern automotive industry than ASC, we’re not sure what it is. These guys have seemingly been the go-to location for boutique style work that huge car...