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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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After Trouble At Daytona and Sebring Ford GT Racing Program Turned Over To Sloppy Mechanics Facebook Page

After a rough debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona and issues at the 12 hours of Sebring Ford Performance has made a bold change and fired the entire engineering department involved with the Ford GT...

Huge News! Scott and Laura Gardner Named As Heartland Park Topeka General Manager and Dir. Of Business Operations

The good news from the world of drag strips across the United States keeps on rolling as a major announcement was made regarding the leadership at Heartland Park Topeka yesterday. Scott and Laura...

2016 Buffalo Motorama Coverage: Our Last Look Inside The Monster New York Show

(Photos by Mike Brooks/Gasoline Images) – So we have come to the end of the yearly photo explosion from the Buffalo Motorama. Mike Brooks really did a nice job covering this deal from...

Formula One Might Dump The Italian Grand Prix At Monza For…Las Vegas?!

First held in 1921, held in succession since 1950, and only moved once (to Imola, in 1980), the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is an institution to itself, a center of pride for Italian motorsports, an...

Morning Symphony: Round One Of Lone Star Drift’s 2016 Season!

You know what drifting is all about…the skills of a driver that is sticking a toe or two over the line of car control while laughing about it all. Slip angles, power application, steering...

Classic YouTube: Behold, The Granborghini! Whipping The Snot Out Of A Nissan Skyline R33 With A Riding Scooter!

A Nissan Skyline R33 can hustle, even if it is the GTS-T and not the GT-R model. Your average riding scooter does not. Not even if a horse jockey who might blow away in a slight breeze is riding on...

Question Of The Day: Can Fans Of A Dead Brand Keep The Memory Of The Company Alive? If So, For How Long?

Out of all of the brands that have fallen by the wayside in recent years, none may be missed more than Pontiac. Mercury, Oldsmobile, Eagle and Plymouth died because their parent brands didn’t...

Bounty Hunters No Prep Shootout Coverage – More Bits From The Pits And Craziness From The Track

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – When it comes to the two most rapidly exploding parts of the drag racing world, especially on social media you need look no further than No Time racing and No Prep...

New NHRA Pro Mod Record Set On Mickey Thompson Tires – Big Hook, Big Speed, Low ET!

In one of the few instances that the hype actually matched the performance on the track, the NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod show in Gainesville was amazing. From close racing and fast qualifying to the...

Petrolicious Catches Up With The Lucky Owner Of Renault’s Little Rally Monster, The R5 Turbo!

Bring up Renault in America, and the imagery is enough to make most gearheads sick: the dysfunctional marriage to American Motors. The Renault Alliance, Fuego, and “Le Car”. Renault had...

Shut Up And Take Our Money: This 1976 Dodge Has A 440, Four Wheel Drive, And Perfect Paint

Sometimes simple is good and in the case of this 1976 Dodge truck, simple is GREAT. The jet black truck has seemingly perfect paint, a mild 440ci big block under the hood, and a 2″ lift along...

This 468-cubic-inch Chevrolet Cavalier Is A High-School Hot Rod Sketch Come To Life!

The moment I laid eyes on this Chevrolet Cavalier, I had a flashback: I was sitting in Ms. Jameson’s math class, first thing in the morning, bored out of my skull. In lieu of revisiting the...

Watch This Ferrari F355 Berlinetta On The Autocross, But Better Yet Listen To It. Epic.

The sounds that come from some cars are spectacular. Arguably as good as watching them. Others not so much. One make that has pretty much always nailed it on sound is Ferrari. They know that all your...

BangShift Test Drive: What We Think Of The 2016 Ram 1500 Limited Crew Cab Eco Diesel

Despite what market factors, the economy, environmentalists, and even the automakers themselves want the public to believe, Americans love and crave trucks. We buy them like no other country on...