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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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Everybody’s A Comedian: Bid Now On This Genuine 1969 Camaro Gas Tank On Ebay!

The spoof ad. We’ve seen these on Craigslist before, where someone with comedy chops puts an absolute crap-can of a car up for sale with a killer writeup to go along with it. This particular...

Greek Truck Driver Lucky To Be Alive After Container Falls On His Truck [VIDEO]

The driver of the yellow-and-green semi tractor should consider himself extremely lucky after surviving this accident on January 15, 2015. While moving containers around the Perama Container Terminal...

Gratuitous Burnout: This 660HP 1969 Super Bee Is Just The Thing For Your Thursday

We don’t know what is powering this 1969 Dodge Super Bee, and frankly, we really don’t care. Whatever lives underneath that hood has more than enough entertainment potential to satisfy...

A Man And His 1968 Camaro, And How The Car Is The Important Link In His Life Story

Each and every one of us behind the scenes, as well as most of you reading this, have a story that involves a car and how it changed some facet of your life. For some, it’s the one car that...

Blog War: This Ford C-750 Cab-Over Custom Is A Direct Shot – Better Duck, Lohnes!

Does it seem like this particular blog war is…well…not so much a war? It’s kind of hard to go to battle over Tonka trucks, because if you’re reading this site and you...

Rust In Peace: A Collection Of RHD American Cars Found Near Cape Town, South Africa

Bryan Thompson is an automotive designer and Hemmings contributor who recently spent some time in South Africa. While tooling around shortly before having to catch a flight, he stumbled upon what...

This MotorWeek Mustang vs. Trans Am vs. IROC-Z Shootout Might Be The Most Cringeworthy Review We’ve Ever Seen

Going through YouTube and watching old car reviews is pretty cool…both to see just how far we’ve come from what used to be top of the line, and to see cars we look at as classics (or at...

Blog War: This Is The Finest 1953 Diamond T Truck In Existence – Complete With Original Cummins Power

It is one thing when exotic or rare cars come up for sale in “survivor” status. One would expect that they’d be under excellent car because they were expensive and rare from the...

Historical Footage: A Quick Look At Some Bad Commercials…How Did They Expect To Sell Cars With These?

The idea behind a car commercial is simple: figure out how to grab the attention of a couch potato and sear the idea that your car is the one for them into their brain. Simple, right? Not really....

Random Car Review: The 1980 Chevrolet Camaro Hugger Z28

Towards the end of the second-generation Camaro’s life, there were some interesting, if not outright cool special versions coming out, the Cheverra and the Yenko Turbo-Z coming to mind...

Good News, Aussies: The Holden Commodore Name Will Live! Now, About The Car It Will Live On…

Before you really start belting out the cheers, let’s be up-front: only the Holden Commodore nameplate will remain. Unfortunately, GM still hasn’t reconsidered it’s position when it...

Random Car Review: The 1957 Chevrolet 150 “Black Widow”, The Race Car GM Built To Skirt GM Rules.

The story starts with the 1955 LeMans. On lap 35, Pierre Levegh swerved his Mercedes 300 SLR to miss Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar D-type, clipped the back of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey,...

Sneak Preview: Ford’s Upcoming Focus RS Getting Sideways

Ford Performance stole the show in Detroit, and that was just their opening act. Hot on the heels of the GT350R, Raptor and GT is the new-for-the-U.S. Ford Focus RS. Not much has been confirmed for...

Cool Trucks Of All Shapes And Sizes From The Last Somernites Cruise! Lots Of Neat And Classic Iron

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Its time for the workhorses.  I don’t think I have ever seen so many ’47-’54 Chevy pickups in one place at one time.  These things were slammed,...