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Ed Iskenderian, The CamFather And Hot Rodding’s Oldest Living Legend, Has Died At The Age Of 104. Thanks For All The Speed Ed!

Ed Iskenderian, at 104 years old, was the oldest living hot rodder on earth! And as my friend David Freiburger wrote on Facebook, “If you define ‘hot rodding pioneer’ as...

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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: Race Of Kings Qualifying Is Today, This Is King of the Hammers Livestream Action From Johnson Valley!

Off-road racing across Johnson Valley California at King of the Hammers 2026 continues right here! We’ve got the livestream rocking right here from start to finish, so make sure you tune in and...

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Freiburger and Finnegan Q&A: While They Cross-Country The Limo Truck, Finnegan Interviews Freiburger And Here’s All The Answers!!

Everyone loves a good Q&A session with their favorite car guys, and this one here is coming to you from Finnegan and Freiburger, who are road tripping the limo crew cab truck across the country...

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Sick Week Day 1 Video From Alex Taylor, Drag Drive Repeat, And The KSR Crew. Records, Wins, And More!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 1 video blog post and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, Alex Taylor, and the Drag Drive Repeat boys are sharing some of...

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Sick Week Day 1 Video: A Great Day Of Drag and Drive Racing At Gainesville Ends With CARNAGE!!!

Carnage is NOT how you want to start off your week of racing at Sick Week, or any other event for that matter, but that’s exactly what plagued some racers on Day 1 of Sick Week 2026. Luckily...

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Will a $200 Buick Make a Cross Country Road Trip?!? Sure, Just Close Your Eyes And Pray!

I’ve owned some cheap cars and trucks that ran hundreds of thousands of miles after getting them and for the most part they didn’t care what I paid for them. With that said, do you think...

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Best Tow Rig Ever? How About A Buick Roadmaster Wagon 4×4!

Earlier this month, I found myself wandering around Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Thompson CT while a bunch of crazies were flailing around the road course in $500 crapcans. During the day, I...

BUSTED: Ronnie Dale Pollard Arrested In Tulsa, Oklahoma – Goodman Still At Large

Ronnie Dale Pollard, one of two people wanted in connection to the now infamous break-in and robbery at Charlie Buck Racing Engines has been arrested by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Apparently the...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: And Why Do You Work Here, Again? Because I Just Did It All Myself.

There’s slacking, there’s lazy, and there is just plain old “useless”. The first two types of people can be dealt with while keeping them employed. That last type, however,...

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Bugs Bunny Lives, And He Made Track Officials At Bristol Look Like Jackasses – This Is Hilarious!

Quick, name one thing that a rabbit is known for. If you said anything related to swiftness, you’re right! Knowing that, how well do you think you would do catching one with just a metal bucket...

Classic YouTube: Michael Waltrip’s 1990 Crash At Bristol – Now You See It, Now You Don’t!

NASCAR is famous for two things, really: fistfights and crashes. Fisticuffs were the reason why NASCAR even got national attention, when a large snowed-in audience got to watch Bobby and Donnie...

MotorWeek’s Look Back At The AM General Hummer Makes You Wonder: Why Did People Buy These Things?

The list of vehicles that I wish hadn’t made it to production might be a bit long, but one name stands out as the most flawed publicly available vehicle ever. The engine selections were barely...

Russian Off-Roading, Where Drivers Hope Their Rigs Float As Well As They Do

Russian off-roading is, as far as I can tell, the boss level of mud running. We’ve seen just how bad conditions can get, especially in the Siberia area, where the roads turn into the...

1976 Road Runner Vs. C6 Corvette In Iceland: Does GM’s Supercar Stand Up To A Malaise Mopar?

Even with my love for Malaise Mopars, I’ll admit that slapping the Road Runner name onto the Plymouth Volaré was a bit cynical, but to be fair, they didn’t have much else to offer. The...

Turbo Pinto Vs. Coyote Mustang At The Eighth-Mile – We Know Which One We’d Take, What About You?

A V8 Pinto is nice, as many of you pointed out yesterday, but the second the car starts up  any chance of playing the sleeper card is shot. It’s not like a Mustang II…no Pinto came from...

ACED: AutoCross Every Day! Vintage Corvair Autocross Action Video!

Ralph Nader can stick it, this vintage Corvair autocross video shows they rule! Clearly a Corvair can handle, since we’ve seen several good ones over the past several years, but in the early...

Watch This Twin Turbo, Big Block Powered Brogie Roadster Rip 6-Second Elapsed Times In New Zealand – Beats Up On Funny Cars And All!

What’s that? You aren’t familiar with a “Brogie” roadster? No worries as the Brogie isn’t so much attached to a car company as it is a single guy who built these...

Watch The Most Violent, Flaming Diesel Engine Explosion We’ve Ever Seen – NEVER Stand Close To A Dyno

We have seen plenty of videos featuring diesel engines meeting an untimely end due to too much boost or too much rpm, or too much something else but this is the first time we have ever seen a Cummins...

This Blown SBC-powered BMW 3-series Is The Polar Opposite Of A Sleeper – Crude, Rude, And Unacceptable For Public Use. Perfect!

Sometimes you just don’t want a sleeper. It’s ok…sleepers are still awesome. It’s nice to hide tidal waves of torque in a package that looks like it might pull a high-17...

Arrest Warrants Issued In The Charlie Buck Racing Engines Break-In – And There Is A Street Outlaws Connection!

Competition Plus is reporting that arrest warrants were issued for two men in connection with the June 2015 break-in at Buck Racing Engines in King, North Carolina. With over $445,000 in engines and...