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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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We Totally Want To Have Some Cool Scooter Or Bike Like An Old Cushman, Here’s One Being Restored

In some ways restoring a motorcycle is simpler and easier than a car if for no other reason that the scale of the project be so much smaller. But that’s not always the case when it comes to...

Deforested: This 1973 Dodge Challenger Is Done Hiding In The Woods!

The last time I saw Dylan McCool, I asked him about how he sources the cars he finds. After all, he pretty much has the luck finding the good Mopars in the region. His 1969 Charger, his Swinger, the...

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Are These Cars Just Too Ugly And Crappy To Make Up For It With A Turbo LS Swap?

Every year at LSFest I find myself laughing or drooling over some amazing machine, that has been conjured up by a fellow hot rodding brother or sister. This year we’ve seen an LS Turbo swapped...

LS Fest X: The Early Morning Wake-Up Call

Five o’clock in the morning comes quick. It comes a hell of a lot quicker when you usually go to bed at three in the morning, but such is life. That being said, there is no way I was going to...

Holley LS Fest X: Our Coverage Of The Insanity From Bowling Green Begins NOW!

How insane is Holley’s LS Fest X right now? Let’s put it like this: there are more staff on hand helping all of the racers and participants on the property at Beech Bend right now than...

Cool Old Drag Video: Ron Colson and Gary Burgin in the Funny Car Finals at US131 Dragway Circa 1980

There’s nothing like Funny Cars at night. Header flames licking the body, nitro-burning Hemis cack-cack-cackling away, and (in 1980 anyway) dry hops on the starting line. This video was shot at...

Get Geared Up: Mark Williams Enterprises Has Your Rear End Covered!

Every drag race car in the world has them, gears. The majority of them have those in the proper place which is under the rear of the car. The gears that ultimately drive your machine down the track...

Hilarious Video: Mannequin Riding Shotgun In Race Car Scares Unassuming Driver

Pro racing drivers do considerably more than just show up on race weekends to flog their race cars for a couple days and then head home. In between race meetings, drivers must find time for testing,...

Hate The Idea Of Self-Driving Cars? Blame Charles Kettering, It Is All His Fault

The foundation of the self-driving car, which has become a reality that snuck up on most of us over the last couple years was laid 103 years ago and it is all Charles Kettering’s fault....

Great Historic Drag Video: Nitro Funnies, Pro Stockers, and Top Fuel from Rockingham, Circa 1975

Drag racing was in a transitional period in the mid-1970s. Gone were the free spirit days of the 1960s and in were the gritty days of match racing for a living, and slowly transitioning to a more...

Holley LS Fest X: Ten Years Of Mayhem In Bowling Green Starts Today!

The city of Bowling Green is alive tonight. Every road between NCM Motorsports Park, Beech Bend Raceway and all points in between are alive with the sound of pushrod V8 engines. The engine that many...

Inside The Shop: This Video Featuring Kelly Racing In Australia Is An Amazing Look At Supercar Competition

We always talk about how we dig the Aussie Supercar series around here but the long story is that we don’t know a whole lot about the series outside of the fact that the cars make good noise...

Big Iron In The Twists: This Video From The 1965 NASCAR Race At Riverside Is Awesome

Racing stock cars on road courses is not only fun, its historic. Back in the 1960s, the tour famously ran at Riverside, California and this footage from the 1965 race is freaking awesome. Huge cars...

This Vintage Devin Drag Car Has California History And A Shot At Hitting The Streets – Awesome!

Now THIS is awesome. You are looking at a vintage Devin sports car body sitting on a shortened, narrowed, and lightened 1956 Chevrolet frame. Currently powered by a hotted up 355ci small block Chevy,...