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Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Is Getting A Custom Build DIY Rear Swaybar

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the rear suspension get some...

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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Holley LS Fest 2015: Our First Photos From Beech Bend Raceway – If You Are Close And Aren’t Here, You Should Be!

LS Fest 2015 is wide f’ing open right now, with engines screaming at TWO racetracks in Bowling Green. We have Brian calling drag racing, Chad calling autocross, and we all are shooting photos...

Meet Franky: Turn Heads At Every Car Show With This Quirky Paul Franks Painted Hot Rod!

Not only is this 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air wacky and quirky and cool, but it’s also had all the important stuff done that makes it fun to drive. We happen to know this car well and can tell you...

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This 427-powered Mustang Makes The Tires Literally Scream…Punish All Tires!

After finding the footage of the 1969 Shelby with a side-oiler 427 FE Ford screaming like a banshee on a mission last week, I’ve found myself digging further into Ford’s Hemi response....

In Case You Forgot That Winter Will Be Here Soon, Here’s A 440-powered Honda Ice Racing At Merrill!

It’s official: the days are starting to get shorter, the air is getting cooler, and leaves are just barely starting to turn. Fall has just arrived, and with it the first warning that soon we...

Pedalfest Video! Watch Morgan Lucas and Brittany Force Drive For Their Lives At Indy

The 2015 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals was a very different race than we have been used to seeing on the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series tour. It had been a weeks long string of...

The Power Of The LS Engine, Here Stuffed Into A Suzuki, Driven By An Australian!

The reason the GM LS engine is so popular is because of it’s dollar-to-horsepower ratio. Simply put, it is very difficult to find a better bang-for-your-buck option than the late-model motor....

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, A New Caddy, A New Bentley, And The World’s Angriest Hipster!

By the time you read this, we will be in the middle of LS Fest in it’s entirety…if the weather around western Kentucky will actually cooperate. Otherwise there will be some seriously...

Craigslist Gem: This Jaguar-camino Is Weird, Wonderful, And Can Haul Grey Poupon For Days

Back in the days of bootlegging, crafty guy modified their cars to haul moonshine and outrun the law over treacherous mountain and country roads. This car has absolutely nothing to do with any of...

Like Your Trucks Ready To Work? Check Out This 1973 International! No Carpet, No BS!

If you are so inclined, you can go out right now and order up a Ford F-series truck that will easily come in close to $70,000 dollars, and you can easily get close to that figure with the GM twins,...

Used Car Lot Find: This 1966 Pontiac Catalina Convertible Wound Up On A Ford Lot

It isn’t often that I stop in at a dealership’s lot for one specific car in the used lot. Normally I will just swing in and take a look around, annoy the sales staff, maybe even...

eBay Find: Would You Race This Old Ford Escort EXP Pro Mod After Clearing The Spider Webs?

Yes kids, there was a time when pro mods weren’t a bunch of old Camaros, Corvettes, and pro stock looking late models. In fact, there was a time when being different and weird was celebrated....

The 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet Date Is Set!

With all motorsports series nearing the end of their 2015 season, some events are releasing partial schedules for the quickly approaching 2016 racing season.   Mark your 2016 calendars, now!...

Oak Tree Grand Prix Action Photos: TUDOR Series Cars Ripping Around The Classic Course

(Photos by David Whealon) – The yearly “Oak Tree Grand Prix” at Virginia International Raceway is a heck of an event. Our man David Whealon was there this year with his picture...

COMP Cams releases new 3-bolt Camshaft Race Retaining Plate For LS Engines

You really only want your cam doing one thing and that is rotating in your block to move the lifters and get the valves to doing their job, right? This, like everything else involving a race engine...