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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Ouch! Check Out Busted Knuckle Video’s Latest Rockbouncer Crash Compilation!

Rollover procedure: Keep all limbs inside of the vehicle. attempt to maintain control of the vehicle while passengers brace for impacts, and wait for the vehicle to quit moving before attempting to...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Fear Factor That Comes With The Phrase, “There, I Fixed It.”

I apologize in advance if this particular post isn’t funny…it’s not meant to be. While parts counter clerks and mechanics share a lot of the same trials and tribulations that...

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Pro Street Poncho! This 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix Is Ready To Cruise, Show Or Tear Up The Track!

Welcome back to the early 1990s, where monochromatic paint was in, chrome was out for the most part, and finding tubbed-out Pro Street cars was still very likely. We would like to introduce you to...

Is this super-rare Ford GT road racer worth almost a million bucks?

Much ado has been made this year about Ford’s return to racing at Le Mans with the new GT, but it’s perhaps a less-well-known fact that Ford GTs have raced at Le Mans in the last decade and a...

46th Annual Antique Nationals Fires Up At Auto Club Fontana Drags!

(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The Antique Nationals began decades ago; it was an event specifically to celebrate 4-cylinder powered hot rods at a time when the memory of those...

More Coverage From The 2016 Redneck Rumble! Rods, Rats, And Rumbling Eights Aplenty!

There is nothing like hearing an Oldsmobile engine with a huge cam prowling at near-idle, with the occasional blip of the throttle (and resulting bark of protest from the tires) to break up the quiet...

Stop Guessing: Racepak Continues With Their Series Talking About Data Loggers – Watch Here

Here’s a trio of videos that could change the way you go racing. Why? Racepak has embarked on a comprehensive series of videos that start at ground level and explain what data loggers do, how...

BangShift Goes Racing! Transforming A Cheap Street Car Into A 24 Hours of Lemons Racer!

Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap. Here, you’ll see the misadventures of my friends and I as we...

Check This Thing Out: The Nocturnal Motorworks Coyote! Nissan Power, 1,001 Pounds, And Tail-Happy!

We could tell you who we could blame for the recent run of tube-frame, engine-seats-rollbar cars that have started popping up like weeds around the country, but the story of the Vette-Kart is on...

What Would It Look Like If Ford Built A No-Rules Test Mule? Jay Leno Takes A Look At Steve Strope’s 1967 Ford Fairlane!

In the mid-1960s, Ford and Chrysler were at war, period. GM might have been working the field too, but on the banked NASCAR tracks and on the NHRA drags trips, the Blue Oval boys and the gang from...

Top Fuel With Doors? Scott Palmer Is Going To Give It A Shot At Sikeston! Video of Nitro With Doors!

NHRA top fuel racer, top fuel hyrdroplane racer, and all around bad ass Scott Palmer will be bringing a very unique brand of nitro racing to Jeffers Motorsports Park when he’ll make test hits...

Unhinged: The Most Exotic Thing I’ve Ever Spun A Wrench On, A Lancia Scorpion

(Lead photo: Hemmings) It’s safe to say that most “exotic” cars are safely kept away from me in some form or another. I’ll probably never own a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, let...

Curb Feeler: Watch This Camaro Climb A Curb And Mow The Grass At Speed – Yikes!

It is not very often we talk about a drag car getting off into the weeds during a run anymore but that’s because drag strips have all but eliminated that possibility. There was a time way back...

eBay Find: This 1964 Mercury Park Lane Is Cool But The Four Speed And SOHC Make It The Coolest!

While loads of people really geek for the 1964-1972 era muscle cars that really defined the era, I am more enamored with the 1964 and down stuff going down into the late 1950s. There were some really...