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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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Twin Engines, All-Wheel Drive, And 1600 Horsepower. Insane Is Rad And We Love It!

Big power and all-wheel drive is nothing new, but twin engines that allow each end of the car to work together OR independently, means that each end can do it’s own burnout! Yeah, this thing...

This VW Van Speaks To Us. Man I Want One Of These Bad!!!

You all know my weakness for station wagons, but I also have a strange desire to own a van. Actually a couple of vans, because I want a VW van like this and a Chevrolet with big and littles that is...

Cleetus Got A New All Billet Intercooled Intake Manifold For Leroy The Savage! This Thing Is Sick!!!

CNC Milling and Machining has changed the world we live in more than most people realized, but in the hot rodding and racing world we’re pretty aware of just what can be made using these...

The Road Less Traveled: Could This AMC Ambassador Be Funky Enough To Be Yours?

Maybe it’s because I helped send a perfectly useable Ambassador to the crusher when I was younger and didn’t get how “different” could actually be cool, but every time I see...

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Morning Symphony: Gene Felton’s IMSA Chevrolet Nova At Road Atlanta

Gene Felton is not a guy you’d want to line up with on a road course anywhere. The gentleman can wheel pretty much whatever you put him in, though he’s done fantastic work in IMSA in the...

Unhinged: The Keke Challenge?! Quit Dancing In The Streets, You Idiots!

The National Transportation Safety Board has actually had to issue a plea to the general public to not open the door of a moving vehicle, hop out of a moving vehicle, dance like an imbecile, and...

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Rumor Mill: Courier Reborn? Ford Is Looking At A New, Unibody Pickup For The Future

So Ford has quit the car game, minus the Mustang and whatever the Focus Active is supposed to be. Purists weep, gearheads point fingers and make arguments and the public continues to eat up anything...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: If The DMV Clerk Is Sleeping, Can You Smack Them Legally?

July is almost gone? That leads up to August, and the month that we travel the most! We have plans, we have events, we have flying miles to accumulate and at least one of us has a garage full of...

Here’s Why People At The Hot Rod Reunion Love Vintage Cars

Holley’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky is one bad ass event and is full of enthusiasts, fans, and families. This video is cool as it follows one of Holley’s many in...

Rough Start: A Neat Little Toyota Truck Hiding A Secret Under That Hood!

Surely you can have some fun for five grand with a bit of Craigslist hunting, right? Of course you can! You might not get the LS6 Chevelle of your dreams, but you can get something that you can drive...

SEND IT! Mega Trucks Earning Their Wings At Maximum Power Park!

If there was ever a legitimate reason for building a Mega Truck, it’s long gone to history as far as we’re concerned…to us they are the middleman between a street-legal lifted beast...

Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!

You know what makes a turd like a 1989 Hyundai decent to drive? A manual transmission. Same goes for a Ford Festiva, a Dodge Ram 50, an early 1990s Beretta, and many other cars we’d love to...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Is There Any Kind Of Racing You Won’t Do?

By and large, I’m more than willing to take on a challenge if it involves racing. I’ve drag raced, road raced, autocrossed, canyon-carved on roads with Wile E. Coyote drops on the side,...

Our Blue Suede Cruise Drag Racing Coverage From Norwalk Continues

(Photos by Martin Libhart)  Thanks to Martin, we’ve got several galleries worth of photos from Norwalk’s Blue Suede Cruise and race event. There were tons of cool gassers and period correct...