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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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Here’s A Craigslist Ad For A C-10 That You Are Not Likely To Soon Forget

People send in Craigslist ads and story ideas to us all the time. And sometimes people send us funny Craigslist ads. Often those funny ads are too “colorful” in the language department to...

Forces Of Time: Does A Properly Prepared 1989 Ford Thunderbird SC Have A Draw?

Everyone always wants to make a crack about building the wrong car, until someone puts together the “wrong car” the right way. Ever notice that? Nobody liked 1973-77 Chevelles, it seemed,...

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A Different Kind Of Fairmont: Paul Hamilton’s XA Ford Is A Violent Handful!

There were Ford Fairmonts before the Fox body. They look an awful lot like Mad Max’s Pursuit Special and are not common in the United States. In fact, I’ve personally only seen one, ever...

The Mickey Thompson Million Dollar Bracket Race Is LIVE Right Here!

This is the 23rd year of The Million, one of the richest purse events in the history of drag racing, and everybody that is anybody is on site trying to take home the big bucks at this 4 day...

27th California Hot Rod Reunion – Friday Nitro Action With Huge Gallery!

(Photos by Dyan Lover and Darr Hawthorne) – The 2018 California Hot Rod Reunion® presented by Automobile Club of Southern California roared to life on Friday with an awesome day featuring more...

Real-Deal Steel 1967, 1968, And 1969 Camaro Bodies Available Ready For Tube Chassis!

If you are building a drag car that is going to have a 4-link or ladder bars, or even a pro touring machine that is going to have something completely custom out back, then starting with a whole car...

More LIVE Drag Racing! The IHRA Summit SuperSeries World Finals From Memphis Are On Right Here!

The racing season is winding down in most parts of the country as we get into fall that seems more like winter by the day. In Memphis the IHRA World Finals are taking place at Memphis International...

Modern Automotive Performance Proving Grounds Event At BIR Was Epic, Watch This!

Modern Automotive Performance Proving Grounds, the all encompassing event where Drag Racing, Drifting, Autocross, and Road Course action abounds is one impressive event. It is much like...

Satellite Launch: What Happens When Three YouTubers Come Together In A Junkyard!

About the same time I was watching Rocky Mountain Raceway throw down for the final party, there was something going on closer to home. Kevin from JunkyardDigs was itching to get back to his work and...

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Historical Video Fun: This 1956 Air Force Video About B-52 Take Off Procedures Rules

I have huge respect for pilots. I fly a metric ton during the year and as of this moment I have logged about 118,000 miles in the air since January. These are the men and woman who make the decisions...

Super Sport Wagon: We’d Be Banging Gears In This Six-Speed Chevy Caprice Wagon All Day Long!

The miracle that Jon Moss pulled off with the Chevrolet Impala SS of the 1990s was nothing more than a hot-rodder reading the cards and putting the right pieces of the puzzle together. Standard, the...

Hot Rod Ranch’s Muro Brothers Are Building A Bad Ass Corvette With Some Cool History

Story by: Olivia Scaffidi Photos by: Gil Muro There are always incredible cars to be found at Hot Rod Ranch. The shop located in Lompoc, California is owned by the Muro brothers who have been...

So What Would You Put In This Cushman Scooter For Power If You Were Going To Ride It Cross Country.

So the other day me and some buddies were talking about our mini bikes and CT70s and the like and mentioned that it would be fun to ride them cross country just for the hell of it. Well of course...

See You: Audi’s Sporting Farewell To Mercedes As The Three-Pointed Star Leaves DTM Racing

There is a funny thing about racing and rivalry. To the audience, especially the ones who are casual fans and might not be completely in tune with everything that goes on, they see a pure rivalry....