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Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: The Biggest and Baddest Truck Show In The Country!

Here’s our last gallery from LST 2026! Man  what a great show this is. I hope all of you at home put it on your list for 2027! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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Nitro Funny Car Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing Goodness!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Highlight Video: Sportsman Drag Racing Action from the 2026 AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Here we go! NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing is some of the finest on the planet. Sportsman Drag Racing is the lifeblood of drag racing, drag strips, and the hobby in general, so when NHRA announced that...

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OG Mini Truck Customizing: Jendro’s Chop Shop Putting Maxima Headlights in this Clean Nissan 720!!

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a ton of custom truck mods involving head lights and tail lights. A couple of the more well known were using Nissan Maxima lights in Nissan 720 pickups and Ford...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Body Chop, Rock Sliders & Cage Plates As Fabrication Continues

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one...

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IHRA News: Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series

Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series; Partnership Kicks Off at St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix Fairfield, OH — March 11, 2026 — The International Hot Rod...

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This 1951 Ford COE Fuel Truck Is Begging To Become A Car Hauling Ramp Truck.

Whenever we see one of these tanker trucks we think that cutting the tank off of it and leaving the sides with a ramp truck bed in between would be the coolest thing ever. And since this one is...

Trick Flows LSx Steam Line Kit Is A Great Gift For Your Hot Rodder This Holiday Season

Or you can buy one for yourself! Either way works. If you have put together more than a couple LS engines, or maybe even just one, you know that the factory steam lines at the front and rear of the...

Our Boy Dominator Driving Like A Boss At Redemption 6.0 No Prep In Tulsa

Dominator is one of our favorite Street Outlaws. We know a lot of those guys, and they are all super cool and fun to be around for sure, but anyone who’ll stuff a Chevy in a Mopar and then not...

If You Thought We Were Out Of Street Car Super Nationals Photos, You Would Be Wrong

We still have tons of photos from the Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas, so we figured we better start doubling them up and giving you two galleries for the price of one. I keep getting emails...

This 1970 Ford Camper Van Makes Us Want To Load Up The Family And Hit The Road

Whenever you see a car, truck, or van in this case, that just makes you feel like taking a trip, it’s a good thing. And that’s exactly what this 1970 Ford Camper van did for us when we...

Crushing A $40,000 1kg Gold Bar In The Hydraulic Press: Most Expensive Crush Ever

We’ve seen a lot of stuff being smashed by hydraulic presses lately, but this is most certainly the most expensive thing ever crushed by one on YouTube. This is a real 1000g or 1kg aka 2.2lb...

This Howling Holden Torana Would’ve Been Right At Home In The 405!

Decry no-prep racing all you want, but it offers up one thing that a lot of fans seem to miss: seeing cars that they know and can identify tear the strip apart. Our time at Redemption 6.0 recently in...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: When The Good Idea Fairy Goes After The Computer System

One of my swiftest complaints to come flying out of my mouth involving the store, any store, is the computerized catalog. It’s the bane to older generations, the parts Bible to the incoming...

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Is This The Hot Rodders Hoverboard? This Is One We Think We Could Get Behind…errr… ON!

We’ve got friends that are all into their hoverboards. In fact, our friend Richard Holdener has been known to ride his all over Westech Performance Group in the wee hours while working on the...

Grudge Match: Hell Boy Vs New New Half Track Wheelstand And $2000 On The Line!

The World of Grudge Racing is changing and growing and getting crazier by the day it seems. More and more really fast, I’m talking REALLY fast, cars are coming onto the scene, and yet the...

Ice, Ice, Baby: Here Is A Preview Of The Fun On Ice Many Of You Will Be Experiencing Soon

Since it’s getting colder and colder, and even SoCal is getting near freezing temperatures at night the last few days, I thought it was time to post a preview video of things to come once the...

eBay Find: A 1968 GMC Pickup That Checks Every Last Box…Except For The Wheels, You Pick Your Favorites!

You can’t exactly blame Freiburger for coining the term “Muscle Truck”. The concept has been around for years, mainly because when you combined the larger engines trucks were...

Quad-Turbo, 6.0L Powered Rubber-Nosed Camaro Junkyard Build…Recycling Done Right!

Yes, folks, it’s another late-second-gen Camaro sporting an LSx swap. I’d say “don’t groan yet”, but I’m sure I was beaten to the punch. Apparently the trend is to...

The WTF? Files: Check Out This Beast – Part Dodge Magnum, Part Ford Ranger!

The Dodge Magnum station wagon did come with available all-wheel-drive from the factory, essentially Mercedes-Benz’s 4MATIC system. It was popular in places where snow is an actual concern, or...