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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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SEMA 2015: And Now, An Intermission Featuring Pro 2 Trucks And The Parking Lot Out Front!

Had I known that at some point in time Pro 2 trucks were going to be raising hell in the Ford Out Front drift pit/arena, I would have sectioned off a set of time to go see it. You see, watching the...

Would You Buy This Partially Complete 1969 Corvette Wagon For $5,000?

BangShifter Victor Allen zipped us the link to this wild Craigslist find and after looking through all the photos we were surely more intrigued than we were at the start of looking this car over....

The Mind-Blowing, AWD, Jet Hot “Double Down” Is Heading To Auction – What Do You Think It’ll Sell For?

Call me names if you want but I think that this is one of the coolest hot rods built in the last two decades. The Jet Hot high performance coatings Double Down by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods is the 1932...

SEMA 2015: OPGI Announces RestoParts, Has Cool Cars, New Parts, Launches Sale

Our pals over at OPGI really pulled out all the stops for this year’s SEMA show. The company always does it right with a big display and cool cars to draw people into their area but in 2015,...

Caption This Photo: One Of These Things Is Going On A Pro Stock Car – The Other Moves Air

Chad and I were hustling on last Monday night in Las Vegas as we had been invited to a Chevrolet Performance gathering and we were running late. As we rounded the corner at the location of the event...

Optima Film Festival Winner: Afternoon Donuts — This Is A Brilliant Short Film

We had the chance to attend some really cool events at SEMA this year and the Optima Film Festival was certainly one o them. Optima had invited filmmakers to submit their best work in one of two...

Bob Perkins Collection: We Visit The Greatest Assemblage Of Low Milage Classic Mustangs In The World

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – So you think you hit the Holy Grail when you find a fifty year old car with ten thousand miles or less on the clock. So what do you call it when you have a...

The South Shall Sink Again! Over A Dozen Cars Fall Into Sinkhole At A Brand New Mississippi IHOP’s Parking Lot!

It hasn’t been long since the last sinkhole to grace our presence, the Corvette Museum sinkhole, was filled to the brim and sealed off, but apparently there is something about the South that...

Trends From SEMA 2015: We Play “Good Idea, Bad Idea” With What We Saw At The Show!

As huge as SEMA is, we’re bound to be able to make a “good-bad-Oh My God” list in short order. It’s one thing to have our favorite cars or to have a list of must-see stuff,...

Want The Ultimate 2016 SEMA Show Cruiser? This 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Is Your Ticket!

We need to upgrade our program. See, when guys like us do the SEMA show we spend the majority of our lives cooped up in the Las Vegas Convention Center during the day. We’re writing stories,...

SEMA 2015 Debut: Ringbrothers’ 1965 Ford Mustang, “Espionage” – Carbon Fiber Body, 959 Horsepower And Over Three Years’ Worth Of Work

Jim and Mike Ring’s creations are well known for their high-end, high quality creations that start life as standard muscle cars such as the “Recoil” 1966 Chevelle and the...

This Skyline-Nosed Nissan Sunny Truck Was An Eye-Catcher At SEMA 2015 – Here’s The Scoop On It!

Throughout the entirety of this year’s SEMA show, I was stunned at how many Japanese imports were catching my eye…that isn’t something that is easy to do, but cars such as the BRE...

SEMA 2015 Gallery: Chevrolet’s Camaro Is Alive And Well, And Thriving!

“A small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs”. Hmm…while the sales executive might have been feeling a touch creative when he blurted out that gem at a press conference, the...

This First-Year Pontiac Grand Am Has Been Put Up For Adoption By It’s Loving Owner – Would You Give It A Good Home?

Colonnade GM cars are a weakness, especially when they are in excellent condition, and this 1973 Pontiac Grand Am is hitting that weak spot like seeing a sad puppy. The 400ci Pontiac, a luxury...