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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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This Hemi Powered D100 Gets An Aeromotive Phantom In-Tank Fuel System

(Words and Photos by Matt Graves) Hot Rodding, at it’s core, is basically upgrading old stuff with bigger and faster stuff. Sometimes this means embracing new technology with some of us kicking...

Super-Low Mile And Street-Driven: The House Of Muscle Checks Out Killer Mike’s 1996 Impala SS

It was long, low, and mean….everything that the Chevrolet Caprice was not, unless you were on the business end of some police officers who had an issue with you. It was snorty and had guts for...

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GM Is Asking The Government To Increase The Gas Mileage Standard And More…Thoughts?

It’s often easy to say that manufacturers don’t care about consumers, so long as the money is filling the coffers. Not entirely wrong, it is? As long as people are lining up to buy...

Here Are Friday’s Number One Qualifiers From The NHRA Toyota Nationals In Las Vegas

NHRA’s Toyota Nationals is Round 23 of 24 in NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and fans from all over the west have flocked to Las Vegas for this one. They are hoping to see Championship...

A Home-Built RV That Isn’t Scary! This 1942 Chevrolet G506 Army Truck Is Beautiful!

World War II ramped up manufacturing in the United States like nothing else had before. Factories cranked out ships, planes, trains and trucks by the millions in the name of the War Effort. Everyone...

Records Fell Like Flies At The Southern California Timing Association’s First El Mirage Meet Of Fall

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Man the conditions at El Mirage could not have been much better this past weekend! I’ve been to El Mirage a bunch of times and can’t remember it being more...

The Exhumation: The 1983 Chrysler LeBaron That Got Buried Gets Dug Up! Will It Start, And Will It Talk?

At the beginning of this year, we showed you one man’s final answer for a K-car that proved to be too much to tolerate. Tyler Hoover of Hoovies’ Garage bought this 1983 Chrysler LeBaron...

Nothing But Cars For Sale And On Parade At The Pomona Swap Meet

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) The Pomona Swap Meet was huge and awesome, as usual, which is why we always go! It’s a riot hanging out with friends, looking at cool parts, laughing at stuff we find,...

Big Rigs, Big Rigs, And More Big Rigs From The Great American Trucking Show In Dallas

(Photos by Rob Bennett) The Great American Trucking Show is like the SEMA Show of Big Rigs. With over 500 exhibitors, representing more than 52,000 trucking industry products, and a truck show that...

27th NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion Crowns Event & Series Champions!

  (Photos by Dyan Lover and Darr Hawthorne) – Last weekend’s 27th California Hot Rod Reunion finished up competition at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, crowning not only event winners but also...

This Australian Dodge Phoenix Is Going From Derelict To Big-Block Cruiser For A Cause!

First off, how surprised are you that a 1963 Dodge of any type was in Australia as a local-sale car, complete with right-hand drive? All of the American manufacturers stuck their nose into the...

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Drive Green: A 1977 AMC Hornet AMX That Was Still Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Musclecar!

The true pinnacle of Malaise might be about 1980, but 1977 wasn’t that great, either. Pontiac fans were doing well enough, the Z28 Camaro had returned after a two-year hiatus, and if you knew...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest City in America That Has A Race Track?

As I’m writing this from a hotel room in Las Vegas before the 2018 NHRA Toyota Nationals get kicked off around here, it got me to thinking. There are a load of cool cities that have race tracks...

Richard Okerman’s Super Gas Wreck From 2004 Is Proof That No Matter The Speed Safety Gear Is Paramount

So many people want to complain and generally whine about safety equipment in race cars. At a recent event I was at, there were probably a dozen guys who came to the tower complaining because they...