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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Cutting Up A Real 1932 Ford Frame? Iron Trap Garage Is Using Parts From This One To Fix Another!

When the guys at Iron Trap Garage pick up a new project, they sometimes find themselves with stuff that most people wouldn’t try to save. They have an eye for what something can become and,...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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More SCTA El Mirage Racing Action – Dust, Dirt, And Big Speeds To End The Year

(Photos by Zane McNary) – There was a bumper crop of competitors at the final meet of the 2015 SCTA season on the hallowed and dusty grounds of El Mirage. Why? We all know that Bonneville got...

Pair Of Pro Stock Champions To Drive With EFI Mopar HEMI® Power

Words by JEGS and FCA Communications A pair of champions will team up and carry the Mopar banner in 2016, as back-to-back NHRA Pro Stock champ Erica Enders and five-time overall Pro Stock title...

Junkyard Heaven: Gates Salvage Yard In Hardwick Vermont – Our First Look At The Classic Iron

There are things you just HAVE to do. When the Craigslist ad surfaced for a place called Gates Salvage in Hardwick, Vermont offering any car in their massive vintage section for $500 we knew we had...

Watch This Gnarly S-10 Literally Blow Through The Guardrail At A No-Prep Race In Texas

Boy, it was an eventful weekend at the no-prep race held at Texas’s Edinburg Dragway. Earlier in the weekend, Mike Murillo suffered a rough crash that saw him all but total his world beating...

Ebay Find: A Full-Race Plymouth Duster That Is An Engine Away From Drag Strip Heaven

Often times, when you search for a “race car” on eBay, you end up looking at homebuilt projects that may or may not be worth the time and money. For some of the prices you see on eBay,...

Land Speed Photos: Cool Action Images From The Final SCTA El Mirage Meet Of 2015

(Photos by Zane McNary) – It’s the fastest dirt on Earth. A tricky, silty, unforgiving surface that has been part of the land speed racing realm in America for decades and it is the...

What’s It Like To Drive A Stripper Chevy Colorado That Has Been Jammed Full Of Everyone’s Favorite V8? Mr. Regular Finds Out!

Pulling off a sleeper is actually pretty difficult nowadays. Most older iron is immediately suspect simply because it exists, most modern stuff driven to the track is known to be capable. The only...

This Big-Block Chevy-Powered Toyota Only Knows One Rule About Racing: Stand On The Loud Pedal!

As I was growing up, playing with dirt bikes and cars, one rule kept getting hammered into my head: gradual inputs on any control was the way to go. You didn’t just dump the clutch, you eased...

Want To Spray Your Coyote? Do It The Right Way With This Zex Perimeter Plate System

One of the cool new pieces we spotted at the 2015 SEMA show is the Zex perimeter plate blackout nitrous system designed for the Ford 5.0L Coyote engine. This thing is sleek, simple to install, and...

This Honda S2000 Is A Screamer! 7.17@192 MPH In The Quarter With The Four-Banger!

Honda is a strange company. On one hand, they make perfectly safe, sane, reliable and unbelievably boring four-wheeled transportation. On the other hand, their powersports division has made some of...

This Sinister Ford Galaxie Looks Ready For A Starring Role As An Evil Villain’s Ride!

Big, black, low and nasty…all words that come to mind seeing this 1972 Ford Galaxie two-door. There isn’t much that the ad does say about this nearly monochromatic coupe –...

This 1951 Chevy Ramp Truck Is A Duramax Powered Luxury Hauler We’d Kill To Own

Haulers come in all different shapes, sizes, and varieties. From the humble pickup truck based units to old wedge died machines that have been dragged from barns, to stuff like this 1951 Chevy shown...

Top 11: Our Christmas Wish List From The Mecum Kissimmee 2016 Auction

Dear Santa, It has been a long year filled with hard work. We have travelled across the land, putting in the hours, staying up late to finish our chores. We even managed to exercise restraint when we...

Aqua-Grunt: This Tow Boat Uses 20,000 Cubic Inches Of Power To Move Barges – Here’s The Scoop

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – The ability to transport goods is what opened up the middle portion of the United States. Before railroads, we had the Illinois and Michigan Canal, where...