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This 700HP, LS7 Powered 3rd Gen Camaro Restomod Is Something Special! What A Beast!

I’m a Camaro guy. I know people know me for wagons and mini trucks and whatever but I grew up in a Camaro family, my first car was a Camaro, and I love them. My favorites are first Gens like my...

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Street Car Takeover Atlanta: They Turned a NASCAR Speedway into a NO PREP Track And The Action Was Awesome!

Street Car Takeover in Atlanta was a huge event and the racing action on pit lane of the Super Speedway was hot and heavy. We’ve been doing the same thing at LSFest Texas for the last few...

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Iron Trap Garage Video: Cummins Swapping A 1947 Ford Flatbed, Checking Out A 1934 Phaeton & Carlisle Prep!!

The Iron Trap Garage crew are at it, getting some work done and prepping for the upcoming Carlisle swap meet. The big job in this one is doing a Cummins swap on a cool 1947 Ford Flatbed pickup. This...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $15,000 Wednesday

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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Tool Testing: This $800 Snap-On Goes Up Against Every Price Ratcheting Wrenches To See Who’s Got The Best!

We run a lot of tool testing videos around here and many are expensive vs cheap tool comparisons. I’m not saying that every cheap tool is good, or that all expensive tools are overpriced, but I...

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Bustys Bar & Jukebox LoneStar Round Up Kick Off Party Video: Hot Rods, Customs, And More In Austin

We’ve shared a couple of Lone Star Roundup videos so far, and can tell you that it was a heck of a show as usual. Because this show has gotten so big over the years it has turned into not only...

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BangShift Project Files: We Follow Up On A Hemi-Powered 1931 Plymouth!

One of the more dreamworthy garages in the BangShift Forums belongs to “Hemi Joel” Nystrum. This isn’t a shock…Joel put a Factory Appearing Stock Tire car into the 10-second...

Rocky Mountain Race Week Action From Thunder Valley Continues!

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) This is our last gallery of photos from Thunder Valley, the second to the last stop on Rocky Mountain Race Week 2018, but that doesn’t mean we are out of photos all...

The 2019 Suzuki Jimny: Does A Modern Samurai Make Sense For A Small SUV?

Ah, the poor, maligned Suzuki Samurai, the automotive equivalent of the Weeble-Wobble. Small, upright, boxy, spunky, with decent off-road chops and the smear of a Consumer Reports claim of easy...

Would You Ever Buy A Classic, That Was Too Far Gone To Save, Just To Keep It From Being Crushed?

So I’m walking around my buddy Chad Ehrlich’s Nobody’s Auto Recycling, in Great Bend Kansas on Friday morning when something he says strikes me as funny and awesome all at the same...

Rough Start: Will This 5.0 Ford Ranger Be Your Hot-Rod Hauler?

Small truck, V8. It’s a wonderful combination. What’s better is when the factory more-or-less offers up a do-it-yourself conversion kit to make that dream come true! When Ford started...

Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: The Second Sacrifice Has Arrived At The Shop!

No, that is not the Great Pumpkin Mustang. That is not the replacement for the Great Pumpkin Mustang. What you’re looking at is the latest thing to be dragged to BangShift Mid-West’s...

7.0 @ 199 MPH: The “KING32” Skyline GT-R Is Out For Blood!

Nissan Skyline GT-Rs are the one of the best jokes the Japanese ever played on the world. What damage could a six-cylinder sports coupe do? Plenty. In stock form it was like any of the other bubble...

Trailer Burnouts Are Cool, And 1320Video Got Some Good Ones On Film From Rocky Mountain Race Week.

1320Video Rocky Mountain Race Week 2018 has been a riot! And part of the fun has been all the weirdo antics that everyone has been doing, including myself who did some things that perhaps were a bit...

Rough Start: When In Vegas, Play A Safe Bet, Like This Four-Speed 1973 Chevy Laguna!

First appearing on the Pontiac GTO in 1968, Endura bumpers soon spread throughout General Motors’ lineup as a styling tool that effectively molded the front bumper into the design. No longer...

Sharpening Tungsten Correctly, And Using The Right Cup, Can Be The Difference Between Okay And Awesome TIG Welds

Sometimes it is hard to know what to believe when it comes to welding prep. I say this, because sometimes the things you hear sound so weird that they couldn’t possibly be true. Other things...

Usually I Say To Each His Own With Regards To Car Builds. Today Is Not One Of Those Days.

WTF PEOPLE!!! Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. This is hideous. In every way. Thanks to our pal Rocco Bastone, who sent this one in, we all get to suffer and look at it together....

The 5th Annual Lone Star Summer Shootout Is LIVE Sunday Morning.

The Texas Motorplex hosts the 5th Annual Lone Star Summer Shootout and all of Sunday’s action will be live at the link below. The Texas Motorplex is the original mega track and one that we...

Bonus On-Road Photos From Rocky Mountain Race Week

On our way from Thunder Valley, our merry band of Race Weekers cruised along, ate great food, and had some fun along the route taking photos, laughing, smiling, and just having a good time. Our group...

Shake, Rattle, And Roll…Rocky Mountain Race Week Invades Thunder Valley

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) If you haven’t been to Noble Oklahoma’s Thunder Valley then you are missing out. It isn’t a fancy track, but it is cool and the staff is nice as can be....