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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 8 Racing Action! Why Not Add A Few Hundred More Miles Through The Dunes!

It’s Stage 8, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stage 7, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 2 of the 2nd Week of Dakar. This...

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Richard Petty’s Drag Racing Legacy: The Hot Rod Hoarder Separates The FACTS from The MISCONCEPTIONS Right Here

One of our favorite hot rod historians is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, because he’s a fount of information and really gets into his subject. He’s so good at the history behind...

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Here’s IHRA’s Full Schedule For 2026: Triple Crown, Specials, Purses, And So Much More Right Here!

IHRA has been putting out tons of announcement for the past several months, and if you have missed any of them you can use the link below to see some of the bigger ones. But if you want to see the...

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Making Fenders From Scratch With Cornfield Customs: Designing And Shaping The Buck – Fenders Part 2

We shared Part 1 of the Cornfield Customs Fender building series where wood was being prepared and cut for the buck that these fenders will be shaped to fit, and now we’ve got Part 2 where...

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A Big Rig That Is Lower Than a Ferrari? The Cab-Under Trucks That Drivers Feared, Were An Awesome Idea… Maybe

If you have never seen photos or video of one of these cab-under trucks that were out in the 1970s, you are missing out and will love this video. The idea behind them was simple, put the rig under...

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Carburetor Tech: Predator Carburetor Deep Dive Part 1 – How They Function and How To Rebuild Them. What About Parts?

We’ve talked about the Predator Carburetor before, most recently with a video from DD Speed Shop where he was having issues, which you can use the link below to check out. But Predator...

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Best of BS 2016: See How A Student Crew Landed A B-58 Hustler With Damaged Landing Gear After Fourteen Hours In The Air!

If there is one thing that will put the truest icy spike of fear into your spine, it is when something breaks on the aircraft you are operating. I once had the cable that operates the rudder on a...

Best of BS 2016: Watch A Disguised Petter Solberg Scare The Daylights Out Of Mechanics

While this is not the first time someone has disguised a world famous driver and used him to scare unsuspecting victims, it never gets old to us. This time the driver is 2003 World Rally Championship...

Best of BS 2016: Watch A V8 Powered VW Pre-Runner Break Every Law Known In San Diego

UPDATE: YEAH, THIS GUY WENT TO JAIL. Blame Charles Wickam for this one. This short film titled “Urban Assault” shows an LS powered VW pre-runner that goes completely mental through the...

Best of BS 2016: Remote-Controlled Toyota Hilux Drives Underwater, Under The Ice!

  A lesson I learned as a kid playing with electric-powered remote-controlled cars: electrical components plus water and mud equals shortened lifespan of the remote-controlled vehicle…and...

Best of BS 2016: Mustang GT350 Plus Mickey Thompson Drag Radials Plus Nitrous Equals 10s!

One of the cool things that always happens when new performance models come out are the “firsts”. The first people to get one to the drag strip is a big one and then the elapsed time...

Best of BS 2016 – Jamie Whincup Takes His Australian V8 Supercar And Enters An Aussie Burnout Contest

Any hot rodder worth his salt knows how to do a burnout. Your first one is a right of passage. It’s like losing your virginity. But doing burnouts at the level that the Aussies have taken it to...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Bad VW, Bad Subaru, And Badass Corvette!

It’s July already?! Yes sir, it is…if the wilting thermometer didn’t give you that hint, your neighbor….you know, the kid who just spent his entire paycheck at a sketchy...

The Ultimate Roadtrip Vehicle? Check Out This Ford E-Series Dually That Is Packing A Powerstroke And A Quigley 4WD System!

I’ve been semi-joking around about a BangShift Command Vehicle, the kind of ride that we could take from race to race in comfort, that could operate all of our systems in place and still be...

Hot Rod Garage Jams A Supercharged Mill Into The Crusher Camaro – 700+ Wheel Horsepower!

It only seems like yesterday that the Crusher Camaro, that other bright yellow GM product that has been in the magazines forever, was getting a new engine courtesy of Mast Motorsports. In fact, it...

Buy Your Own 1942 GMC DUKW! You Could Be An Amphibious Tour Guide In A WW2 Icon!

If you’ve ever been to coastal cities like Boston, Seattle, and South Beach you’ve seen the Duck Tours. Hell, Pittsburgh and Austin also have them just to name a few. A Duck, or more...

This Garage Kept, 28k Mile, Lincoln Just Came Out Of Hiding. And Got Laid On It’s Nuts.

And we approve! In fact, McTaggart and Lohnes (sounds like a country duo doesn’t it?) are going to lose their minds when they see this thing. Especially McT. The little old couple that owned...

Seat Swap! Watch Bryce Menzies Take On Drag Race And Cruz Pedregon Attack The Dirt – Plus A Crazy Match Race

It is always cool when professionals from disparate styles of racing get together and have fun with each other’s rides. In this case it is former NHRA funny car champion Cruz Pedregon and off...

Classic YouTube: Watch This Super Pro Dodge Avenger Lap National Trails Raceway!

If there is one thing that Chrysler did well in the 1980s and 1990s, it was building two-door body shells that looked great as drag cars. The Daytona, the LeBaron Coupe and the first-gen Avenger all...

Watch Chris Juliano’s Bad Ride From NHRA Norwalk – More Pro Mod Craziness

The J&A Service Company pro mod class has provided some of the most exciting, chilling, and downright crazy action of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello drag racing season. Between close calls, near...