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Blasphemi explodes the Engine, Jarrod sends intake into orbit, Struggles from Day 5 of Sick Week 2026

We’ve shared lots of video from Sick Week 2026, including several from Alex Taylor, Kevin Smith and the KSR crew, and also the Drag, Drive, Repeat gang. So what’s in store in this new...

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Check Out All These Drag Cars And Other Old School Treasure at the WORLD OF WHEELS 2026 SHOW In Chattanooga

I remember when the World of Wheels show came to San Jose as a kid. Dad and I would always make the trip to go check out the cars and trucks in the show. They were always some of the best indoor car...

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DIY Paint and Body: Testing an Electric Spray Gun Built for Automotive Paint – Is It Actually Any Good?

For the past couple of years there have been a ton of folks on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and more that have been showing off their automotive painting success with cheap handheld airless paint...

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Harrell Engine And Dyno Video: Mike Finnegan’s Rubber Ducky engine teardown! Plus, we’ll get some valvetrain tech too!

Finnegan’s Rubber Ducky, the cool yellow 1967 Pontiac Firebird that he picked up a few years ago, has been a fun ride that has taken him on Drag and Drive events, done great Christmas tree...

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Buick LeSabruh! Will Derek Be Able To Drive This Thing 700 Miles Home? He TRADED For This LS SWAPPED Buick LeSabre Sight Unseen!

Derek is back at it, this time with a Buick LeSabre, a car he’s actually bought and modified several times. Not this one in particular, but one that looked almost exactly the same. This one has...

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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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This 1956 Austin Healey is Hemi Powered And Fat Fendered

Austin Healeys are cool little cute cars. Cute being the operative word. Sure they have tons of racing pedigree and all that. We aren’t discounting any of that. But they certainly aren’t...

When You Have a Bunch of Half-Cars Lying Around: A Bizarre Buick Regal/Plymouth Scamp Hybrid

To paraphrase Jurassic Park chaotician Ian Malcolm: “Your bodywork guy was so preoccupied with whether or not he could that he didn’t stop to think if he should.” And just like the dinosaurs...

Russian Off-Road Racers Repurpose Old 3.5-Ton Trucks to Race Offroad and, Yes, It’s Awesome

Short-track offroad racing has been popular in Europe for many years and while there all kinds of classes in the United Kingdom (like rallycross) and the United States (like off-road truck racing),...

Morning Symphony: Blown Third-Gen Hemi Goodness – The Supercharged Chrysler SRT-8 Is Back!

After waxing poetic on the idea of late-model rides having blowers through the hood, I had to go back and check up on one of my all-time favorites, “Mad Matt” Leischer’s 2006...

Watch This Alky-Injected Crosley Snort and Rip On a Dyno

Crosley engines don’t get much love in the world of modern racing, but the miniscule engine not only powered Crosley’s cars in the 1950s, it was also a favorite among SCCA racers in the...

260ci and 1,000hp – Automotive Specialties Has Built A Very Nasty E-Motor For Bonneville

Keith and Jeff Dorton from Automotive Specialties are known across the country and across the globe as two of the most serious, innovative, and all around bad assed engine guys alive in the world...

A Twelve Second Ford Fiesta ST? Bring On The Party…And Plenty Of Hurt Feelings!

There’s nothing wrong with the Ford Fiesta ST. It can run up to 197 horsepower if you get into “overboost” mode, is small and nimble, and at 2,700 pounds, is a lightweight among new...

In the 1980s, Chuck Yeager Wanted You to Fasten Your Safety Belt and Drive a GM

You likely know Chuck Yeager from his aviation exploits, which are probably at or beyond those of just about any other human being. Not only was Yeager the first man to break the sound barrier in...

This 1969 Mercury Marquis Is An Awesome Boat To Cruise The Vegas Strip In!

It’s a fantastic fantasy: land somewhere with money in hand, buy a car immediately and just drive it for the rest of the summer to wherever the hell you feel like going. I don’t know if...

MAHLE Aftermarket Celebrates The Success Of Pullers Using Their Pistons

For many of you, when you think about MAHLE Aftermarket and the products that they make, Cobra Jets, drift cars, muscle cars, and all kinds of racing/muscle stuff pops into your head. Well you need...

Aussie Budget Builds: Mighty Car Mods Pits Their Mitsubishi Lancer Against Their Re-Purchased Nissan 180SX

We can dig budget builds around here. Sometimes, you just have to play with the hand you are dealt and make the most out of what you’ve got. For Mighty Car Mods, that’s what this battle...

Half Mile Drags! Action Coverage From The Revvolution Shift-S3ctor Indianapolis Airstrip Attack

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Racing on an airstrip used to be a necessity for early hotrodders. With nowhere else to go, racers turned to old airstrips and lakebeds to wind their...

Costella/Cunha/Bassano Nebulous Theorem VIII – The Most Insane Racing Vehicle I Have Ever Seen

(Editor’s note: I will never forget the first time I saw this vehicle, which is technically a sidecar motorcycle behind me at Bonneville in 2013. I went back to the hotel that evening and rip...

Not-So-Rough Start: A Cadillac CTS Comes In Under Budget? Yes It Does!

Color us absolutely stunned. A 2003 Cadillac CTS for $3,100? In what looks to be running, driving condition, with no major body damage? Surely, something is wrong here. We know that the regular CTS...