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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Building A 1968 Camaro Drift Car In Autoshop, and Then Taking It To The SEMA Show AND PRI! This is Something Special!

When the Los Angeles Career Center decides to do something, they go all in. Given the fact that Southern California is the epicenter of hot rodding and racing, it makes sense that a project like this...

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Jay Leno Takes a ride in ONE of the TWO 1914 Knox Model 46s still in Existence: This is a 496 CI Overhead-Valve Monster From the Nethercutt Collection!

Sometimes we forget just how bad ass humans were 100-140 years ago. I say this because the amount of invention and ingenuity that was happening in the world was just insane. I mean people came up...

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Rough Start: A Bargain-Basement Lincoln With An Easy Fix

If you are sincere about starting out with the lowest amount of money spent on a car so the rest of your budget is freed up for hot rod parts, look for key words to help your search along. Look for...

A Year In Photos: David Whealon Shares Photographic Highlights From 2018 (Part 4)

(Photos by David Whealon) – Shapes, colors, sounds. Those are the basic three elements that attract us to cars, right? We enjoy their styling. We enjoy their coloration and look. We enjoy the...

Morning Symphony: The Supercharged Snake Slithering Up The Grass-Lined Driveway

The thing that appeals most to me about the Dodge Viper is it’s roots. Namely, the fact that one of the wildest cars of the last thirty years, with the V-10 engine that was a marvel at the time...

When The FBI Showed Up At The Sponsor’s Office, A NASCAR Team Folded Up Shop

If you thought that your end of week was bad, the guys at Chip Ganassi Racing would have traded it with you in a heartbeat. On Friday the team announced the immediate shuttering of its NASCAR Xfinity...

Stick To The Resolution To Lose The Weight! More Weight Reduction For The Bottle Rocket Coronet!

80% of New Year’s resolutions are worth little more than hot air by the beginning of February. What, did the cheap candy for Valentine’s Day cause you to bail on the diet? You were the...

This Is Our Final Blast Of Photos From The Tour D’ Orange New Year’s Cruise – Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Exotics, And More.

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) This is it, our last round of photos from our New Year’s cruising fun, so check out the photos below and click the link to see all the other galleries. We shared our...

Drag Action Gallery: More Sportsman and Straight Axle Madness At Historic Thornhill Dragway!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – For those that read and look at my stuff on here it will be no shock to see some images with intentional lens flare.  I like it and will actually seek it...

BangShift Question Of The Day: When Did You Realize That Your Car Was Possessed?

We all know that one scene in the movie “Christine”, where a dejected Arnie, alone with his prized Plymouth, is busy assessing the damage caused by hoodlums. He promises that he will...

2018 Syracuse Nationals Photo Coverage: The Cool Cars And Trucks Of The Northeast Were All There

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – There are car shows and then there are CAR SHOWS, baby! The yearly mechanical orgy known as the Syracuse Nationals falls into the all-caps category of automotive...

The Mongrel Is Looking Bad Ass! This Little Ford 100E Project Is Starting To Really Excite Us.

Take one plain, but cool, old boxy British Ford that never ever would have been considered a performance machine and make it so cool everyone will want it. But how? It’s simple really, just cut...

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Check Out All The Cool Cars We Cruised With On The 2019 Tour D’ Orange Here In California

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) If you have missed it, then here is your chance to check out all the photos we’ve posted so far of muscle cars, pro touring machines, hot rods, classics, exotics and...

This 1993 GMC Sierra GT Runs 8’s With A Small Block And An F2 ProCharger!

Getting a fullsize pickup to haul ass is pretty easy if you take away all the stock everything and slide it over a tube chassis, but if you keep most of the stock truck and then try and run in the...

Watch This Russian Kamaz Dakar Rally Truck Flying Through The Snow And Through The Air

There are no shortage of bitchin cars, trucks, buggies, and bikes that run the Dakar Rally each year, but none, and I mean NONE, get me more excited that watching the giant Kamaz, Tatra, Hino, and...

The Woodsman: This 1972 ex-Forest Service Dodge Power Wagon Is An Awesome Workhorse

For the most part, Lohnes and I can see eye-to-eye on trucks, with a couple of minor indiscretions. He likes older rigs, me not so much. He likes the geared-down, lumbering tractor-like styles of...