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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Rough Start: This 1979 Chevrolet Impala NEEDS NOTHING! Best Rough Start Find Yet?

You like 1977-90 GM B-bodies. So do we. You like them with some grunt under the hood that the factory was too scared to put in. So do we. You like them clean and presentable, comfortable without...

Morning Symphony: Putting The “Muscle” Back Into Muscle Car With This AMC Javelin Puller!

Muscle car. The name lends itself nicely to the ear and invokes images that many look back on in wistful nostalgia. Cars that were so hairy, so loaded with power that you had to have bravado by the...

Ouch! This Big Rig Misses The Mark BAD! Watch This Mistake End In A Huge Slide Down A Hill

Everyday, in every city, some driver will cut a corner too sharp and run over a curb, or will misjudge a tight situation and end up scraping up a corner of their vehicle. When the vehicle in question...

This Ford 100E Is Going To Be A Bad Ass On This Miata Chassis: Mongrel Parts 1-5

Matt Urch, the owner of Urchfab is known for building some pretty cool and weird things. He’s a welder, fabricator, and gearhead that sees things just a little askew from the norm and that makes us...

Optimistic Seller: Would You Pay $6,500 For A Volkswagen Thing?

Every time I voice an opinion about a used car being too expensive or well above what the market value should be, I get hate mail by the truck load. I’m jealous of those with money and should...

We Found Something We WOULD NOT LS SWAP!!! We Have Much Better Plans For This One!

When our boy Rocco sent us this Craigslist Find, we were immediately in love. Maybe it is because we love little GM cars. Maybe it’s because this one has a cool Pontiac beak out front. Maybe...

Ridetech’s Ten Questions With: Jack Chisenhall – Vintage Air

(Words by Steve Chryssos) In this edition of our “Ten Questions With…” series, we sit with Jack Chisenhall — one of the best known, highly respected hot-rodders and entrepreneurs in our...

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Torrence, Capps, Enders, And Krawiec On Top At NHRA’s Carolina Nationals At ZMax

It’s been a wet few weeks in the Carolina’s, but this weekend the rain gods have left and that mean’s NHRA Mello Yello drag racing is going hot and heavy at Charlotte’s ZMax...

Jet Power! The British Maniac Is Back With A Turbo Jet-Powered Scooter!

I often imagine that a trip into the mind of Colin Furze starts out with your own customized hard hat and a waiver that states that you will not sue the moment you catch fire. The man is a creative...

Morning Symphony: Light A Fire Under Your Butt And Get Going!

I am the world’s worst about getting out of bed when it’s time to wake up. Doesn’t matter what time the alarm is set, doesn’t matter what I’ve got planned to get done...

Trail Braking: The Guys From Team O’Neil Rally School Show Us How, And It’s Fun!

I like trail braking. It is my natural tendency, and has been since I first started running fast on mountain roads growing up. I never knew what trail braking was until I went to Bob...

Sunshine, Hot Rods, Trucks, Muscle Cars, And More From The Goodguys Lone Star Nationals Continue

(Photos by Rob Bennett) Thanks to our man on the street Rob Bennett, we were able to get a bunch of great photos from the Goodguys Lone Star Nationals and that means we have lots of cool stuff to...

Car Names Are Cool, But The “Old Testament” Comet Wagon Has Got Just A Bit More Meaning Than Most

(Words and Photos By Dana Ford) If you’ve ever been to a nostalgia drag race or show, one of the things you’ll notice is there are a number of cars built to pay tribute to drivers or teams of...

BangShift Project Files: This 1978 Buick Regal Turbo Is Super-Clean…But What Kind Of Turbo System Is It, Again?

The son of forum member “Stiney” should be very pleased with himself…he’s the owner of one of the cleanest early G-body Regals we’ve seen in quite some time. The car...