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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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Take A Look Behind The Scenes On A Drag Challenge Build: A 427ci Twin-Turbo Mill Meant For A Holden Clubsport!

Drag Challenge, Australia’s Drag Week clone, has taken off like wildfire, with massive amounts of success. What else would you expect in the land of burnout contests and long-distance skidding?...

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Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags Show Coverage Continues Right Here

We started our Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags coverage yesterday with a gallery of cool hot rods and customs from the show, and it continues on today. In fact, we’ll have galleries going up all...

Classic YouTube: A Look Back At The Early Years Of Monster Trucks! Bigfoot, USA-1, Awesome Kong, And More!

It seems long ago that monster trucks were something more than fiberglass and noise. Back when Bigfoot was without question a household name, but had other names following right behind: Awesome Kong....

This Guy Turned A Chevrolet Express Into An All-In-One Bug-Out Van That Can Carry His Dog, His Bike And A Place To Sleep!

Are you familiar with “toterhomes”…the all-in-one deal that packs a roadworthy house and a toy hauler into one unit? Usually they’re based on a semi-truck with the largest...

This List Of The Top Grossing Car Racing Movies From 1980-Present Has Some Suprises In It!

Car movies are an interesting deal because sometimes the good ones aren’t really that good. More car movies have lost money than made it but we have proof that some are literal cash cows. The...

An F1 Race Car Is Fast, But Can It Take On A Funny Car? Daniel Ricciardo Gave It A Shot!

A Formula One racer is a marvel of technology. A screaming engine that can rev fast and hard enough to make a superbike jealous combined with the forefront of tire technology, suspension geometry,...

Threads Of Infamy: The Most Hilarious, Maddening, Ponderous, And Off The Wall Automotive Message Board Threads Ever

(Credit to “research assistant” Nutting on this one as well) – The following message board threads rank the highest on a scale of wackiness that we wanted to put them all in once...

Can You Believe This Is The Clutch From A Formula 1 Car? F1 Stuff Is Tiny!

When we walked by the AP Racing booth here at PRI yesterday I was mesmerized by this little tiny carbon clutch displayed on a stand. When I looked at saw that this is in fact a clutch out of an F1...

PRI 2015: A Gallery Of Cars, Engines, Parts, And Machines From The Show Floor

From the insane engines at Wagler Competition Products, to the polished parts and pieces that can be found at so many displays at this show, PRI is jamming harder than it has since we can remember....

Can You Identify This Weird Old Engine We Found St Gates Salvage? We Couldn’t!

One of the more interesting things that Fitzgerald and I stumbled on (literally) at Gates Salvage was a car that wasn’t much of a left of car at all. Basically a set of frame rails, a cowl, a...

How The Rich Do It: Skeet Shooting From A Porsche 911 Targa With Trick Shot Philip Thorrold!

You remember Tax The Rich? The unknown drivers who treated the cars of the upper crust like a rented Chevrolet Impala…drifting them through the grass, fire burnouts, and a stunt involving a...

Watch These Immense Liebherr Cranes Put On A Demonstration Of Strength By Lifting Each Other

(By Greg Rourke) – The boys over at Liebherr must be a fun loving bunch of guys. You’d think they would be just a bunch of engineering nerds, busy designing some of the biggest equipment...

Classic YouTube: Barry Johnson Literally Flying A Subaru Rally Car At The 2007 Jim Clark Rally In Scotland

I know this footage well…shortly after getting internet in my living quarters during my deployment in 2007, this footage was sent to me by a friend who wrote, “if you drove rally cars,...

Think The Snow Blower That Ate The Geo Was Cool? This Monster Makes It Look Like A Tonka Toy – Behold The Snow Wolf

Yesterday Chad showed us a cool video that had one of the more graphically awesome demonstrations of power we have seen in some time when a tractor mounted snowblower actually ate an automobile. Ok,...