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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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This Brand New, Supercharged Mustang Hits The Wall HARD At Thunder Valley’s Armageddon No-Prep Race!

If you choose to participate in no-prep drag racing, you are taking all of the risk of running on the dragstrip into your own hands. There isn’t any surface preparation to save your ass if you...

Woodward’s Nightmare: Cars Stolen During The Woodward Dream Cruise – We Need Your Help To Find These Cars!

Car thieves suck, pure and simple. It doesn’t matter if they stole the parts car from your yard for scrap metal money or your high-dollar, investment-heavy ride that you busted your ass for...

Short Street Rod Shop Tour: The Henry J, The Chryslers, The ’55 Chevy

If you missed the 1955 Ford Fairlane street freak, CLICK HERE! If you missed the ’46 Chevy truck and the Model A, CLICK HERE! As we dug deeper into Jensen Masters’ shop, we started to get...

The Tianjin Port Explosion And Nitromethane – Internet Chatter, No Facts To Back It Up (W/Video)

The videos and story surrounding the latest industrial calamity in China, forever known now as the Tainjin Port Explosion verge on the unbelievable. The footage of the mammoth fireball and the...

Take a Video Look At The Newest Drag Strip In Brazil – Not A Huge Place But It Is Really Nice

The opening of a new drag strip is cause for celebration, even if the place in question is located in a foreign land. In the video below we’re taking you to Brazil and the first passes on a...

The Avro Vulcan Continues It’s Farewell Tour By Buzzing England’s Beachy Head Cliffs!

XH558, the last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber, hasn’t quietly gone into retirement. Instead, the owners are flying the living hell out of the Flying Flat-Iron before she finally sets down for...

Someone Actually Took A GM Futurliner Down The Dragstrip At Norwalk! Twelve Tons Of Trouble In The Right Lane!

Yesterday we gave you a quick in-depth look at the GM Futurliner, the giant bus that General Motors made for their 1941-56 “Parade of Progress” shows across the United States. They are...

Action Gallery: Speedway Motors CAM Challenge East Event Saturday Photos

(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – The Speedway Motors CAM Challenge East at Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana was two weekends ago and I made the 1800 mile round-trip in my 1987 Monte...

This 1500HP Jeep Comes Out Swinging On It’s Maiden Appearance! This Thing Can Hook On Dirt!

It takes skill and talent to make 500 horsepower hook and book on dry pavement. That’s why anyone who can do it deserves some respect, regardless of car. Now, triple the horsepower and put the...

This Mazda RX-7 Is A Flamethrowing, 9,000 RPM Monster…On It’s SAFE Tune!

Yanking the 13B-REW rotary engine out of an FD-generation Mazda RX-7 and jamming in a seriously kicked up Chevy motor seems to be the first modification for any of these little Mazdas, and it’s...

Take A Ride In A 700 Horsepower Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 In Canada – Godzilla Finally Crosses The Pond!

We can already hear the questions: “Wait a minute…the R34 isn’t street-legal for the U.S. market. How is there one in Canada?” and “It’s a Japanese car, who...

NHTSA Sets Sights On Ford Crown Victorias and Mercury Grand Marquis Headlight Switches

The NHTSA, still fresh from a public dressing-down by a Federal auditor earlier this year, has now turned their focus to Ford and an issue that has been investigated before: 2003-05 Ford Crown...

Rough Start: Finding A Drivable 1970 Chevelle For The Budget? It Is, But Expect Some Compromises…

It is well beyond the time to start looking at four-door versions of cars as something more than a parts donor. That might be a hard pill to swallow, especially for the “four-dorks” crowd...

Random Car Review: The GM Futurliner – Showcasing The World Of Tomorrow, Twelve Tons At A Time

Imagine you are a farmer at the beginning of the 1940s. You’re working a stretch of field near a road. You are used to Model T Fords, and have seen cars like the Ford V8 and even that new...