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ROAD TRIP GOLD! Freiburger Highlights Abandoned Places and Americana From His 1968 Ford Galaxie Road Trip!

Freiburger loves a road trip. I’ve been fortunate enough to be on several with him over the years, and he’s the king of a side trip and of just following wherever the trip takes you. He...

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Check Out The NEW GMT800/NBS GM Truck 5&6 Speed Manual TransmissioConversions From American Powertrain!

That’s right folks, American Powertrain just dropped their New Body Style GMT800 stick shift swap kits! Available with a 5-speed Tremec TKX or a 6-speed Tremec Magnum, these kits make your...

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Funny Car Chaos Set To Kick Off 2026 Season With Back-to-Back 32 Car Showcases! It’s A Funny Car Extravaganza!

We’ve got big news coming out of the Funny Car Chaos camp as they are kicking off the 2026 season with TWO big Funny Car shows you won’t want to miss. With 32 cars battling it out at BOTH...

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Here’s Our Final Gallery From The Drag Racing Showcase at the I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026

We’ve shared three of Joe’s great photo galleries so far, but we’ve got the final one left right here! If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them all out...

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Buyer Beware! 1/3 Of The $500 Worth Of Spark Plugs Tested Were Counterfeit! Order Your Plugs From Someone Legit!

I’ve heard about counterfeit tools a lot in the last few years. Stuff that looks like DeWalt or Milwaukee, but that is just a cheap fake. And some that even say the brand name on them! Hell,...

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NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL DRAGSTER ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 MARCH MEET! FRONT ENGINE DRAGSTER GREATNESS!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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Veteran Rehabilitation: Bringing A Sherman Tank Back To Tip-Top Shape

The only Sherman tanks I ever got to see during my military days were display tanks. The oldest tank I ever saw that wasn’t a pretty statue was an M60 Patton variant that was sitting on a back...

Heavy Duty Junkyard Crawl And Engine Teardown: Watch The DeBoss Garage Guys Get Busy With Some Caterpillar Fun!

I had occasion to meet the guys from DeBoss Garage last week and they were really cool to hang out and have a beer with. They’re the same dudes you see on the screen when you watch their videos...

Rough Start: 1989 Dodge D150 – Cheaper Than A Cummins By A Wide Mile

When it comes to the 1981-93 Dodge pickups, you’ll find them in pretty much three levels of condition:  Decent street truck, cared for but worn.  Decrepit.  It’s a Cummins-powered...

This Ram Air V Topped 455 Pontiac Engine Is An Iron Headed Thumper – Who Needs To Wake Up Their Tin Indian?

When it comes to pinnacle factory performance parts from Pontiac, we all kind of default to the Super Duty engines that were installed in those short number of Trans Ams in the early 1970s and those...

Morning Symphony: Waking Up The Warbirds

I loved walking out onto the flightline at sunrise. It’s quiet in much the same way you would experience camping at a hidden beach, or deep in the mountains. There’s just a little bit of...

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Not Every One Died: The Story Of The Rescue And Revival Of LEE 1, The Very First General Lee Charger!

Dixie horn, big-block soundtrack, and two always happy go lucky Southern boys who never really did anything wrong flinging their bright orange Dodge Charger around the dirt roads of Hazzard County...

Truck Suspension Tech Video: Check Out The Install Of QA1s Complete Single Adjustable Coil-Over Suspension On A 1970 C10!

There’s nothing hotter in the aftermarket these days than classic trucks. After just meeting with dozens of high performance parts manufacturers last week, I came away with a keen understanding...

2020 Grand National Roadster Show Photo Coverage: History, Beauty, and More At This Awesome Show

(Photos by Wes Allison) – While we often talk about the “racing season” there’s no real “car show season” in America because it just doesn’t stop. Like...

This 1940s Midget Racer Has An Empty Flathead Engine And Stories For Days

Midget racing in the 1940s was one of the biggest automotive attractions in the country. Midgets races everywhere you and on every surface you can think of. Indoors, outdoors, on dirt tracks, on road...

Breakout: Antron Brown and Don Schumacher Racing Announce Formation Of AB Motorsports – First Step For Brown As Team Owner

While the NHRA off-season news has been more of a drip than a torrent in 2020, the floodgates have opened over the last couple of days and at the top of the wave was this blockbuster announcement...

Holley EFI Dominates At US Street Nationals – Stevie Fast Claims Record, Effectively Races Himself In Final Round

So get this. Stevie Jackson and his guys have been in every final round of ever race they have entered (NHRA, and outlaw/drag radial) since the 2019 NHRA US Nationals in August. This is even more...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Antron Brown Tells The Inside Story Of The Formation Of AB Motorsports, Jason Line Talks Pro Stock, More!

This is a neat episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast because the guests and the topics are pretty juicy. There’s Antron Brown who just yesterday announced that he has formed AB Motorsports which...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Dreams” by Van Halen (1986) Featuring The Blue Angels

How in the hell have we not featured this video yet? How? Before I knew everybody’s name in the band, before I knew one single album title, I knew Van Halen simply because of this music video....

Godzilla’s Guts: Tearing Into The New Ford 7.3L V8 To See What’s What

So we know that a Fox body mule is being prepped to take one of Ford’s new 7.3L OHV V8 engines. That’s awesome…we love to see that an engine that’s still piping hot from the...

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