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Category Archive: MOPAR, TECH, Videos

The Dodge Phoenix Big-Block Build Continues! A Good Cause Requires A Lot Of Hard Work!

The last time we saw the 1963 Dodge Phoenix that Street Machine was building to take to the Running On Empty festival, an event in the town of Cobar that raises money for a WW1 monument and has a...

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Old School Drag Video: Here’s The 1999 IHRA Winternationals From Darlington Dragway!

From top fuel to mountain motor pro stock, this is a show that’ll have you smiling. For many, many years the IHRA opened their season with the Winternationals at Darlington Dragway in South...

Legends Video: The 2018 NHRA SEMA Breakfast Assembled Amato, Prudhomme, Bernstein, and Force – The Stories Flew!

There’s something awesome about getting legendary racers together and letting them yak. At the 2018 NHRA SEMA breakfast, four of the greatest drag racers ever were put on stage and effectively...

The Hoonicorn Was Supposed To Be A Maverick? Hoonigan Tells Some Secrets Behind Gymkhana!

After ten different Gymkhana videos that require tons of back support, lots of details and tons of planning to pull off properly, there’s bound to be some stories that haven’t been told...

Number One On Our Christmas List: Check Out A Walk-Around Of The “Rerun” Chevrolet Camper From SEMA!

The 1972 Chevrolet C30 camper that was parked, well-hidden off of the far end of the Las Vegas Convention Center might be my most favorite vehicle from the 2018 SEMA show. “Rerun”, as...

It’s Ford vs Plymouth vs Chevrolet In This 1966 Station Wagon Showdown – Narration By Lorne Green

Remember the good old days when car companies actually made cars? We live in an era now when seemingly every week we see news that car companies are discontinuing the production of, well, cars. Back...

Fox vs Trans-Maro Spectator Drags Mayhem: Getting Crazy And Bent Up At Beech Ridge Speedway

We have highlighted awesome spectator drags action from Beech Ridge Speedway in Maine for a few years now. The Carbon Videos channel is on top of all the action at that place and there are usually...

Dirty Plays: Low Blow Moves From The World Of Supercar Racing

“Have at it, boys” was supposed to be the rallying cry for NASCAR fans who were convinced that their beloved motorsport had lost every last ounce of personality possible. The slogan was...

Bigger, Badder Blasphemi: The New Motor, The SEMA Thrash, And The Hoonigan Callout Race

From the moment a shell of a 1955 Chevrolet was wheeled out of a backyard on a cart and onto a trailer, the car that is known as “Blasphemi” has been a major part of the scene. It’s...

Watch Don Garlits’ Amazing Speech From The 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Awards Show

There were many great moments at the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello awards show, but there was nothing that came close to the speech that Don Garlits made while accepting his NHRA Lifetime Achievement award....

Sheer Lunacy: Would You Have The Guts To Ride A GSX-R Powered Dirt Bike?

The first time I properly scared the holy hell out of myself on a dirt bike involved an early 1980s Yamaha YZ80. Prior to the Yamaha, I had ridden small Hondas…a 50cc Monkey bike and a 70cc...

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Add This Simple Welding Cart Build To Your Winter Projects List

For a lot of you out there, Winter is the time to get cool project done while the weather is crappy. Well if you are looking for something fun to weld, that will be in your shop and ready to use from...

We’ve Never Seen A Buick Regal Like This One! And It’s Buick Powered, Too!

When I read the words, “World’s Fastest Buick”, a 1988-89 Buick Regal was the last car I was expecting. A Grand National? Possible. A Grand Sport or a GSX? Okay. But the W-body...

The Junkyard Digs F-250 Is Moving Again! Check Out The Progress On This Pickup Revival

Kevin from Junkyard Digs has been hard at work in the garage ever since he got back from the other side of the world. Actually, he’s just been busy, period…he came out to Tennessee to...