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Pavement Pounder Events Announces “Motor City to Wheel Hub Live” 2026 Road Trip And We’re Excited To Be Their Official Media Partner!

Pavement Pounder Events is back in 2026 in a HUGE way, with an incredibly exciting road trip event that will be starting in the Motor City and heading to Wheel Hub Live! That’s right, you get...

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1956 Chevrolet Bel Air “Elegant Lady” Wins 2026 Ridler Award with 1,000-HP Supercharged LS7

We shared a video of the Great 8 finalists for the Ridler Award at Detroit Autorama a couple of days ago and now we’ve got a feature video on the one that took the title. If you missed the Great 8...

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I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026 Is Like No Other Indoor Car Show And We’ve Got The Photos! This Indoor Drag Racing Showcase Is Amazing!

We’ve shared a couple of Joe’s great photo galleries so far, but we’ve got plenty more left! If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them all out too....

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More Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: Tall, Short, Fat, Thin, You Name It, They Had It All At LST 2026

Here’s our second to last gallery from LST 2026! Man all these cool truck make me want to get on my mini truck project so bad! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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NHRA NEWS: HART, GREEN, HARTFORD & GADSON OPEN 75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON WITH WINS AT AMALIE MOTOR OIL NHRA GATORATIONALS

– Hart gets win in JFR debut – Green goes back-to-back at Gators – First PS win for Hartford since ‘23 – Gadson gets first PSM Gators win   GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 8,...

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Smart Tool Mod, Or Overkill? Pittsburgh Double-Double Joint Ratchet! Harbor Freight Should Sell Parts!

I’ve customized too many tools to count in my life, but they usually involve wrenches or pliers of some kind that I’ve ground on, made shorter, or welding something else to. The most...

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A Hint Of Truth In The Rumors: Is FCA Actually Going Through With The Jeep Pickup?!

FCA’s money maker is Jeep. This is a fact…while Ram trucks sell and Dodge has been gaining ground with speed, Jeep is the cash cow. It is why Chrysler bought out AMC in the first place in...

Ride On The Back Of The Quickest And Fastest Pontiac Powered Car In The World

If you are a devotee of the Pontiac brand than you surely know KRE or Kauffman Racing Equipment. These guys are hardcore Pontiac specialists and we don’t mean of the nut and bolt restoration...

Question Of The Day: What Do You Look For On A Roadtrip? From Tourist Stops To Hidden Treasures, We Want To Hear Them!

(Lead photo: via The Brougham Society) There are twenty-something days left until the September equinox and the end of summer for the year. Unless you live in the Desert Southwest, soon all of the...

Corvair War! This 1965 Hardtop With A V8 Crown Conversion Is Impossible To Beat

The Corvair war continues and rather than make this some sort of protracted long fight, I am going to level the heavy guns at McTaggart here and pretty much vaporize him from the face of the planet....

A True Freak: A Turbocharged Honda CR-V. Go Home, Everybody, The “Dare To Be Different” Trophy Has Been Won This Week.

Do I have anything nice to say about the Honda CR-V? No, not really. If you want to announce to the world that you don’t care one ounce about the vehicle you are driving, so long as it will...

SoCal Tribute To Gassers With Straight Axles Galore! Huge Gasser Gallery!

(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) The Automobile Museum of Driving hosted the second of their Tribute to Gassers, the straight axle, blown and injected monsters that once filled the staging lanes...

Corvair War! Nice Try, Lohnes, But This 1964 Greenbriar Van Is Up Your Alley And We All Know It!

The only reason that Brian got the Crown-converted Monza coupe instead of me is because the man sleeps ten minutes a night, and he’s right about one thing…that it is absolutely badass....

Pure Destruction! It’s Demolition Derby Season In America!

Well, folks, it’s the end of summer here in the USA. That means kids are going back to school, the weather gets cooler, and crops are harvested. And with the yearly harvest comes many county fairs...

This Motorcycle Engine Equipped Golf Cart Rips Wheelies Like There Is No Tomorrow (Video)

Boys and their toys. It seems like half of the machines and equipment that have been invented and developed since the beginning of time may have had their roots in some sort of fun. Many of those...

Corvair Blog War! Mactaggart’s Clean And Stock ‘Vair Was Cool But This Gasser Freak Rules!

The other day, McTaggart posted a pretty clean little Corvair as part of a Rough Start item he wrote and while the car was nice and cheap it was pretty much stock. Stock Corvairs are nice but they...

Holley Expands Hooker Blackheart Line With Host Of New Products

  There are some places where it just must be fun to work. Holley seems like one of those places because they have so many different arms in so many different parts of the business. From the...

This Shorty Shoebox Chevy Isn’t Just A Lame Boulevard Cruiser, It Is A Drag Racing Machine!

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – A short while ago Bryan showed us a 70 Chevelle which someone helpfully whacked the middle out of for reasons unknown. Back on the late 60’s and early...

This Wagoneer…Shouldn’t…Do…That! This 1100 Horsepower Turbo Sleeper Is Brutal!

Do you all remember, a few months ago, a story we ran on a guy who was swapping a nasty 3rd gen Hemi engine into a Jeep Cherokee…the full-sized version…using a Chevy C-10 frame as a base?...

Top 11: Late-Model Concept Cars – Vehicles That The Manufacturers Used To Toy With Us

I love concept cars. I love the idea that one of the major manufacturers is so willing to test a future thought, or an unconventional layout, is even just nice enough to unchain the designers that...