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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: The Summer Fling Is On In Bristol And It Is $50,000 To Win Saturday!

The Summer Fling is ON! With Wednesday being worth $15,000 to win, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday all worth $50,000 per day, this is going to be a big money week in bracket racing. On Tuesday,...

This Old Ingersoll Rand Radial Engine Air Compressor Is One Of The Coolest Things We’ve Ever Run Across

What is this thing? Would you believe an air compressor? Yes, Ingersol-Rand built these awesome radial engine air compressors in the 1940s and into the 1950s. The six cylinder engine uses three of...

Big Baller Wagon Hauler: This 1987 Review Of The Mercedes-Benz 300 TD Is Pretty Cool – How Things Have Changed!

Man, when a Mercedes runs 0-60 in 11-seconds and gets praise for it you know two things. Firstly, it’s a diesel. Secondly it’s from a galaxy far, far away called the 1980s. This video...

Watch The Insane Norm Wilding Funny Car Crash From The 1995 NHRA Gatornationals

When we look at the funny cars of today versus the funny cars of twenty years ago, the first thing that people notice is the shape. It isn’t like the cars of the 1990s were showroom stock...

Your Swap Is Weak: Watch These Farm Boys Swap A Caterpillar 3412 Into A Big Bud Tractor!

There are engine swaps and then there are ENGINE SWAPS! This is an example of the second because you are firstly looking at a Big Bud tractor, which is completely awesome and then you are looking at...

Another Junkyard Engine To Swap! LT Based Aluminum DI LV1 And LV3 4.3L V6 Accidental Marketplace Find Features & Possibilities!

When my buddy Jeff Lee at ET Enterprises found a couple of interesting engines on Facebook Marketplace, and then had to share all the info with a group chat we’re in, I cursed him. I know these...

Classic Truck Show Photos: Here’s Our Fourth Gallery Of Photos From The Classic Truck Nationals In Gainesville, Texas

The Classic Truck Nationals were a good time as usual, and I got several galleries of photos to share. Check out gallery number three below.. I have a few more to share as well, and if you missed the...

More Sports Car Racing Photos From The IMSA Michelin GT Challenge At Virginia International Raceway – America’s Baddest Sports Car Racing Series Action!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) Well we’re back to the rolling hills of the southern Virginia countryside at one of the most beautiful and award winning road racing courses in the USA,...

This Vintage Motorweek Review Of A 1985 Dodge Shelby Charger Is Great – These Were Good For Their Time

Jay Leno often says that the last days of an old technology are better than the first days of a new one. The 1985 Dodge Shelby Charger lived up to that adage perfectly as it was the last year for...

This Video Showing How Rolls Royce Merlin Engines Were Built Is Amazing

As much as we love our mighty Allison engines around here, the real hero power plant of WWII was the Rolls Royce Merlin. With tremendous horsepower and reliability, it was the Merlin that made the...

This Video From The Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb Rules – Oldest Motorsport Event In The World Held On Same Track

It is steep, it is narrow, it is very fast, and it is the oldest continuously running motorsports event (aside from war pause) contested on the same course in the world. The first running of the...

Watch This Mighty Cement Mixer Hook Up To The Pulling Sled And Put All Of Its Torque To Work

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside….BAM….cement mixer with the wheels up, hooked to the pulling sled. Who hasn’t thought about the grunt force trauma a rig like this...

Puddin’s Fab Shop 1930 Model A Project Update: 1930 Ford HOT ROD First Start! Radiator mount, Fan shroud, MORE!

Puddin’s Model A is getting so close to being a driver! In this episode of the build you are going to see this bad boy get a couple more critical items, like the cooling system buttoned up, so...