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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Ultimate Adventure 2015, The Off-Roading Answer To Power Tour! Ride Along Through Seven States And Tons Of Fun Trails!

The concept behind the Four Wheeler Network’s Ultimate Adventure is simple: for a solid week, you and a buddy are going to go off-roading with a group of like-minded souls. You will be...

NHRA On Fox: 2016 Television Schedule Released And Boy Does It Look Different From 2015

In an announcement that NHRA drag racing fans have been hotly awaiting, officials have released the 2016 television broadcast schedule and reinforced the new package that sees NHRA drag racing...

Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing 2015: What Better Way To Welcome The Holiday Season Like Riding A Child’s Toy Straight To The E.R.?

The Christmas music has been in full-force for at least two weeks, you’ve just now realized that the family thinks that Thanksgiving is going to be at your house and the only Turkey you have in...

Regular Car Review: The 1985-91 Pontiac Trans Am Tojan – A Factory Supported Kit Car In The Finest Traditions Of The 1980s

You know the third-generation Pontiac Firebird and Trans-Am well. The era of hidden headlights, KITT references, high-performance 305ci V8s, corporate engines, and a faint but growing pulse of...

This 1978 Jeep Takes Me Right Back To Reading 1980s Four Wheel Drive Magazines – LOVE!

It has to be the shined up Super Swampers. That’s gotta be it. Listen, I love this Jeep. I know you hardcore off-road guys (I’m looking at you SBG) hate it and scoff at stuff like this...

Video: Larry Larson Goes 5.89/239 Shattering Record At Jegs Street Car Super Nationals Test – Time Slip and Video HERE

(Photo: Scott Clark — Video by Jeff Stacy) – The record for a street legal vehicle in the quarter mile has been smashed again, this time by the guy who currently held it. On en evening...

The 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals Start Tomorrow: Check Out Our Awesome 2014 Photos Here!

We’re bouncing off the walls around here because tomorrow the big one starts. The 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals and we’ll be bringing you wall to wall coverage with live video,...

Watch This Drifting Tractor Burn Tires, Chew Up Fields, And Crash Onto Its Side

There have been a couple awesome “high performance” tractor videos that have emerged over the last few weeks. We’re going to show you this one today and drop the other one on your...

Chryslers At Carlisle 2015: Our Look Into Mopar History Continues With More Great Cars

(Photos by Ryan Severance) – One of the most interesting things to consider when looking at Chrysler performance cars is how wildly their looks have changed over the years. Maybe more so than...

Total Cost Involved Engineering (TCI) Is Having A MASSIVE November Sale – This Is Crazy

The gang over at TCI manufacture some of the most well designed, well fabricated, and well fitting chassis and suspension components for a dizzying array of vehicles starting with vintage pickups and...

Slideways Video: Icon Drift 4K Was An Awesome Addition To The Optima Film Festival

It is pretty rare to see a video where things with four, THREE, AND two wheels are performing burnouts but such is the case throughout the Icon Drift 4K film that was screened as part of the Optima...

BangShift Project Files: A Unicorn And One Of The Most Popular Trucks Of All Time, Rolled Into One In This 1985 Chevrolet C-10!

Between 1973 and 1987 (1991 if heavy-duty trucks are your thing), General Motors cranked out millions of pickup trucks. Whether you like them or not, you have to hand it to GM for finding a winning...

1969 BMC: The Coolest; Most Useless Car Hauler In America And It Is For Sale!

Useful and cool are things thatch exist in parallel with each other. Something cool does not have to be useful and something useful does not necessarily have to be cool. Case in point, a modern car...

Jay Leno Takes A Close Look At The Brand New 2016 Cadillac CTS-V…200 MPH, Handling For Days, And More Power Than Jay’s Personal CTS-V Coupe!

Ever since Cadillac brought the CTS-V to market in 2004, the concept of the wreath-and-crest cars being rolling Titanics with vertical taillights, more interior fluff than a Build-A-Bear workshop and...