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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Watch What Happened When Oil Got Under The Tires Of Alky Funny Car Racer Gary Phillips!

Gary Phillips is Australian drag racing royalty. If it burns alcohol, he has won in it. From dragsters to funny cars, and top door slammer machines, Phillips has amassed an incredible 17 Australian...

Video: This Ford Flathead V8 Powered 1970s John Deere Lawn Tractor Is Homebuilt BangShift Perfection!

(Words and video – Dawn Mazi Hovsepian) – I don’t know which is cooler.  A ‘37 Ford Flathead stuffed between the frame rails of an early 70s John Deere 200 lawn tractor, or the fact...

Coupe De Kill Update: TRIUMPH! 205+ MPH In Monstrous Car With Caddy Power – Wow!

We are overjoyed to report that the infamous “Coupe De Kill” 1970 Cadillac Coupe DeVille of Sean Mote has run over 200mph for the first time, earning Sean a spot in the ECTA 200mph club...

Lancaster Dragway Pro Mod Shootout Action – Sportsman and Crazed Pro Mod Photos

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – It was a good old fashioned drag strip brawl at Lancaster Dragway’s pro mod shootout a short while back. Held on a weekday night, the place was filled, there...

In Car Video: An Aussie Falcon XY-GTHO Carves Through the Field at Bathurst

When is comes to Australian muscle cars, few have the type of mythological aura around them that the 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO. Rated by Ford at 300hp, reality was that the 351 Cleveland was good for...

Crazy Video: Watch Larry “Drums” Brancaccio’s Horrifying Nitro Harley Crash From IHRA Cordova

Larry “Drums” Brancaccio suffered what has to have been both the most painful and the most harrowing incident of his career a couple weeks back at the IHRA Cordova race when his nitro...

Watch Four Humvee Trucks Get Sucked Out The Back Of A Cargo Plane With Parachutes – Very Cool Stuff

The biggest job the military has is to get the guys fighting the supplies and equipment they need in the quickest, most efficient way possible while making sure said stuff actually gets to where it...

Watch Aussie Top Fuel Driver Phil Lamattina’s TF Dragster Break In Half Just Like Larry Dixon’s – He Is Banged Up

In an incident that was eerily similar to Larry Dixon’s at the NHRA Gatornationals, Australian top fuel hero Phil Lamattina’s dragster split in two during a run at Willowbank Raceway last...

This 1964 Chevy Dually Is One Of The Coolest Mid-1960s Trucks We Have Lusted After In A While

It is tough to claim that any generation of Chevrolet truck is “unloved” but the reality is that the square trucks of the middle 1960s are kind of the forgotten sisters of the Chevy truck...

Cute Burnout Video McTaggart, THIS Is What My Dream Mack Looks Like – 3,000hp Of Diesel Fury!

Yesterday McTaggart poked a little fun at me for my love of big rigs when he posted a video of a cool Mack Superliner truck ripping burnouts. That truck is awesome but when you want to go right to...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Sentence That May Put Me Over The Edge

“I just don’t expect the pimple popping highschooler working at the parts store to be able to tell the difference between the head and ass of his own pet dog, let alone know all the...

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Next Up On The Australian Burnout Stage…A V8 VW Bug Convertible?

We’ve seen a lot of cars participate in Aussie burnout contests…from typical Australian and American muscle, to engine-swapped Japanese pieces…but this might be the first Volkswagen...

Rough Start: If You Can Find A Cleaner AMC Concord For $2500, Buy It

Normally I avoid Craigslist ads with one badly cropped photo like the plague, but in this case I will make an exception. What we have here is a 1979 AMC Concord coupe, and on the surface it appears...

Tune In! Live Audiocast of ECTA Ohio Mile Meet Right Here – World Records To Be Set!

It is race day at the ECTA Ohio Mile meet in Wilmington today and there’s live audio where you can tune into the action to hear about the big speeds, unique vehicles, and awesome...