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Sheet Metal Cut and Butt: Check Out These Simple Techniques, Tips, And Tricks For Do It Yourself Rust Repair.

If you aren’t a regular watcher of metal shaping and sheet metal fabrication videos, you might not know that one of the common sheet metal replacement techniques is called the cut and butt...

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Stanceworks Real Ferrari F40 Project Part 10: Does an 800HP V12 Fit in an F40? Let’s find out.

The F40 is getting an engine! But remember, this is just the process for figuring out if the engine will even fit. This car originally came with a V8, and that means there are several cylinders worth...

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Tony Angelo Traded and Sold His Way into an EPIC ’60’s Oldsmobile LOWRIDER! But What Did He Have To Give Up?

Sometimes a trade is even better than just making a straight buy. When two parties agree that what they both have is a fair trade, and that they would like to own the other’s item, that’s...

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Oiling System Tech: Does An Oil Filter Bypass at COLD START? And Does It Matter One Way Or The Other?

Oil, no oil, clean oil, dirty oil. It seems to me that those are the options when and engine starts and I guess I’m a fan of having oil flowing, clean OR dirty, rather than having no oil flow...

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FORGOTTEN BIG BLOCK BRONCO! Will This Fire Damaged Locked Up Ford RUN AGAIN For Derek?

How do so many cool cars and trucks get forgotten and left to return back to the earth? It always makes me wonder, and then I look at the pile of cars and trucks I have sitting around at the shop and...

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Sick Week Day 5 Video: The FINAL DAY of Racing Decides EVERYTHING – Hearts Broken And Winners Crowned!

Cold, rain, miles, mayhem, and carnage. All of these things made the 2026 edition of Sick Week a bit more of a challenge than some folks were prepared for. There are a lot of racers who didn’t...

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MoparNats 2016: Our First Round Of Photos From The Massive All-Mopar Meetup In Ohio!

I’m on the ground at the MoparNats at National Trail Raceway in Ohio and…well, I’m in awe. If there is a Mopar product you enjoy, it’s here. That’s just it. It’s...

This 1964 F85 More Door Olds Is Perfect In Almost Every Way Or Maybe It Is Perfect In Every Way?

If we can pick the telegraphed punches that will be thrown at this killer 1964 Olds Cutlass F85 it’ll be that the car has too many doors, that it has an automatic transmission, and that it has...

Larry Chen Shoots Quarter Midgets Racing At Indianapolis Motor Speedway And The Results Are Spectacular

We have to admit to being complete fan boys of photographer and writer Larry Chen. The guy is an incredible shooter who captures the events he attends in a way that few others can or could. His...

Bonneville Speed Week 2013 – Our Last Teaser Gallery Before 2016 Action Begins

We are here at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats for SCTA-BNI Speed Week 2013. Chad arrived early this afternoon and blasted a gallery of 80 photos that highlight some of the coolest stuff he saw in...

Unhinged: Hitting The Road And Checking Off Bucket List Items!

As you are reading this, Brian and Chad are either on the salt at Bonneville or are en route to standing on racing’s hallowed ground for the first time in a couple of years. We’ve missed...

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Rough Start: Like Fox Mustangs? Check Out This 1985 Mustang GT – Get ‘Em While They’re Still Cheap!

I find it kind of surprising that you can still hit up Craigslist and find decently priced Fox Mustangs within the first page or two of searching. They’re so popular it’s not even funny,...

Santa Pod’s Dragstalgia Looks Like a Riot – Check Out This Highlight Video

As Europe’s first permanent drag racing facility, Santa Pod Raceway carries the torch for big muscle and small ET’s across the pond and this year finds Santa Pod celebrating 50 years of...

Can’t Be Climbed? These RZR Drivers Should Have Paid Attention To The Warning On This Wicked Bounty Hill!

Money…the root of all evil and the reason why ordinarily intelligent people make very, very questionable decisions. You know what we mean: twenty bucks and that one strange kid...

The Hangover 150 Looks Like the Best Way to Ring in the New Year

The people of western New York come from hardy stock. The shrug at a couple feet of snow during the long, Great Lakes-aided winters, opting to down a few Labatt Blues and carry on with their day...

This Grainy 8mm Footage Captures Some of the Earliest Winged Sprint Cars Ever Built

In the 1950s, the study and application of aerodynamic principles in race cars was a fairly novel concept. For the most part, aero was a slippery subject: Streamlined cars surely sliced through the...

eBay Find: This 1971 Toyota Crown MS75 Coupe Is Super Rare And Looks Killer As A Drag Car!

A 1971 Toyota Crown coupe. No, I haven’t lost my freaking marbles, thank you very much. A 1971 Toyota anything that isn’t a Celica or truck normally doesn’t warrant any attention...

Bonneville Speed Week 2013 — Race Cars And Hot Rods From The Salt!

(Photos by Chad and Brian) – Starting Friday we’ll have Bonneville Speed Week 2016 coverage for you. For now, here’s another look back to the last racing year on the salt, 2013. ...

Scared of Flying? This Turboprop Coming and Going From a Mountainside Grass Strip May Not be For You

The aviation world is full of small private airports, some in difficult-to-reach places. Those airports tend to draw mostly small general aviation planes like your standard Cessna 172s and Piper...

Justin “Big Chief” Shearer To Run His CrowMod In Pro Mod At The 2016 NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals

(Photos by Jeffers Race Cars – Jason Nubs Dunn) – In news that one year ago would seem like an April Fool’s Day prank, Justin “Big Chief” Shearer will be racing in the...