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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Craigslist Find: This 1962 W300 Dodge Power Wagon Is Big, Burly, and Just Rough Enough

Well I have to blame or thank my pal Alan Reinhart, voice of the NHRA for the tip on this big, rumbling 1962 W300 Dodge Power Wagon that’s currently for sale. The truck is what I would call...

Lube Job: You Can Add Driven Racing Oil Products To Your COMP Cams Order And You Should

If there is one critical decision you have to make beyond what the specs of your camshaft and valve train parts have, it is what oil you’ll add to your engine after their installation. We hear...

Rough Start: A Ratty Muscle 1979 Mustang Indy Pace Car

Today’s Rough Start find is more of a selfish move than anything, but here me out because this is a pretty good budget build recipe that could be duplicated in most any market in the United...

Street Car Super Nationals 14: More Shots From The Pits At LVMS!

The sound of screaming engines at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has subsided…Street Car Super Nationals 14 is over and done, and Chad and Cole are back at home getting some much-needed...

Photo Coverage: Bruce Larson’s USA-1 Dragfest – History, Cars, and Friends In The PA Autumn

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Drag racers, seemingly by their very nature are pack rats. This may seem like a slightly insulting thing to say but it isn’t because if they weren’t we...

Would You Rather: Datsun S30 Z-Car – Do You Like Yours Original Or Extra Spicy?

The Nissan S30 chassis, which is familiar to most people as the Nissan/Datsun 240Z, was a home run for the company when it went on sale in 1970. Small, light, nimble, powerful, and easily accessible,...

Last Photo Blast: Our Final Gallery From The 2018 NHRA Auto Club Finals – Comp, Alky cars, Pro Stock, Nitro!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Well we have finally reached the bottom of the well when it comes to photos from the 2018 NHRA Auto Club Finals. This was a great race and a historic one as all four...

Street Machine Drag Challenge 2018: The Final Day Of Racing And The Results!

Just because the road laws in Australia are about as draconian and panic-driven as an HOA’s set of rules regarding parking spaces and lawn care doesn’t mean that Australia can’t...

Watch A WWII Runway Get Rolled Out Like A Carpet – 14 Hours From Wheat Field To Air Strip

Color us surprised! We knew that there were loads of methods of creating air strips quickly during WWII but we had no idea that one of them was basically rolling one out like a carpet! The video...

2018 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals Photo Coverage: Glorious Barn Find Gallery!

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – We don’t think that we’re saying anything out of school when we call the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals the greatest muscle car-centric car show in the...

Drag Photos: The 2018 Bruce Larson USA-1 Dragfest Was The Best Ever! History, Cars, More!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Well the leaves are falling, the temps are dropping, race tracks are shutting down, everyone is slowly putting away their hot rods and the holidays are...

SEMA 2018: Our Pals At Flowmaster, B&M, and Hurst Had Loads Of Cool Stuff To See!

(Photos by the author) – When it comes to amazingly diverse product lines, our pals at Flowmaster, B&M, and Hurst kind of lead the way. We’re talking exhaust systems that sound great...

Scalpel, Meet Sledgehammer: A Dakar Kamaz And A Drift-Set RX-8 Meet Up In Russia

Mike Whiddett has the nickname “Mad Mike” for a reason. His penchant for taking rotary-powered Mazdas and flinging them as far sideways as he dares is something to behold. His RX-8, known...

Big Is Back! Video Of Revised Swamp Rat 38 Electric Dragster Heating The Hides Here!

Now this is awesome. While we get that loads of people are not into the whole electric drag racing thing (we’re not exactly jumping up and down about it, either) we are huge fans of people...