Ultimate Street Car Season Begins With Racing In Texas! Here’s Why Running Early In The Season Matters For Championship Pursuits

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series officially kicked off at G2 Motorsports Park in Anna, Texas. When the grid lined up, the...

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Drill Taps: Are These Self Tapping Drill Bits The Tool You’ve Been Missing? Are These More Useful Than Any Other Drill Bits?

I’m a big fan of a good drill bit, like anyone else who’s having to drill holes. But there are some serious differences in bits, regardless of the price. With all the different coatings,...

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Vice Grip Garage Interior Rehab: Derek and His Wife Jess Restored Their Darts Interior On A BUDGET! Here’s How

Just because the parts are available doesn’t mean that doing an interior restoration on your favorite project is going to be cheap. With lots of options, from “custom” bolt in...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Pavement Pounder Events Announces “Motor City to Wheel Hub Live” 2026 Road Trip And We’re Excited To Be Their Official Media Partner!

Pavement Pounder Events is back in 2026 in a HUGE way, with an incredibly exciting road trip event that will be starting in the Motor City and heading to Wheel Hub Live! That’s right, you get...

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Capturing Car Culture With Larry Chen: The Definition of Car Culture And Everything He Discovered in Brazil. You Don’t Want To Miss This One!

Larry Chen has seen some cool stuff. He’s incredibly fortunate to have experienced car culture, events, builds, builders, manufacturers, and more all over the world. So when he goes somewhere...

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Watch The Mighty March 717 Roar Up The Hill At Goodwood – 537ci Of Injected Big Block Powered Slipper!

Watching classic Can-Am cars running at full throttle in modern times is probably one of our favorite things in the racing world. This video comes from Goodwood and we get to see the one and only...

O’Reilly Auto Parts, Vice Grip Garage, Tony Angelo, Alex Taylor, And Tate Morgan Race Pontiac Aztek’s In The Desert And Invited Us To Join Them!

A few months ago, Derek Bieri, the man behind Vice Grip Garage and Roadworthy Rescue, gave me a call and said “I have a stupid idea and I want you to be a part of it.” My response was...

The StanceWorks 800hp 1931 Ford Model A Race Truck Is Ready For Street Testing And This Thing Is Scarier Than Ever!

It’s been a long time coming after this car tried to kill him, and itself, but the StanceWorks Model A Ford is back up and running and finally ready for some street testing before it goes to a new...

Is Milwaukee’s Latest Impact Driver The The Least Reliable On The Market? Here’s The Fix Though… Would You Buy One?

I’ve been building a new shop for the last couple of years, and we’ve done 99% of the work ourselves. Without a couple of good impact drivers I could not have gotten this project going at...

1320Video’s Epic Adventures In Japan Continue: Exploring Japan in EPIC JDM Cars Makes For An Unforgettable Experience!

Kyle and the boys went off to Japan earlier this year for the Tokyo Auto Salon and while they were there they got to experience all kinds of fun stuff that every car guy or girl on the planet would...

Tool Testing: $60 vs $4,000 Torque Multiplier: Can You Hand Turn 5,000 lb ft? Putting Them To The Test!

The Torque Test Channel is back at it, and this time they are testing something a little different. If you haven’t heard of a torque multiplier before, or you have but have never seen one in...

Featured Products: Baer Brakes Classic Series – Modern Brakes Now Available For Lots Of Classic Vehicles

Automotive brakes have come a long way since the 1960’s, and that means that you no longer have to live with brakes that only work well a couple of times in a row. With high performance brake...

Which Ratchet Head Type Is Best? If You Can Only Have One In Your Car’s Tool Kit, Which One Should You Choose

If you are like me then you have several styles of ratchets in your toolbox. And if you are like me then you have a couple of them that you almost never use, or that when you do use them you find...

This Look At The Coolest Ferrari Movie and TV Cars Of All Time Is Great – 1980s Greatness and More

When we think of iconic TV and movie cars, there’s a short list that people default to. KITT, The General Lee, Herbie, and on and on we go. But what of Ferrari? Just when you think it’s a...

Buy The Book: The Race To The Future by Kassia St. Clair – Story of the First Peking to Paris In 1907

In my own life as a gearhead, I have had a perspective change on my historical interests over time. For example, for many years I really never had even the most passing interest in early automotive...

History Video: The Changing Architecture Of The Automobile Is A Neat Film About Styling History Made In The 1970s

History is a really neat thing to look at, especially when it comes to cars, right? We get to see the evolution of not only the mechanical end of the machines, we get to see the styling involved as...

10 Minutes Of Brilliance: This Collection Of Vintage VW Television Ads Is Fantastic

When it comes to the advertising game on television, especially when we speak about it in terms of automobiles, there’s “before VW” and “after VW”. The way that...

The Sleepiest Sleeper: Watch This Slot Mag Equipped Pinto Make 350 Wheel Horsepower On The Rollers!

The 2.3L Ford Lima four cylinder was produced from 1974 right through 1997 in various different machinations and forms. In this case, one of those 2.3L engines that was liberated from a Thunderbird...

We Drive It: The 2024 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Veloce AWD – Proof That The Italian Driving Soul Comes In Many Forms

I’ve never been shy on sharing my feelings about the many vehicles that occupy the CUV category of automobile which now represents the largest segment of the American buyers market for new...