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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Cutting Up A Real 1932 Ford Frame? Iron Trap Garage Is Using Parts From This One To Fix Another!

When the guys at Iron Trap Garage pick up a new project, they sometimes find themselves with stuff that most people wouldn’t try to save. They have an eye for what something can become and,...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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American Made Video: Watch To See A Morooka Tracked Dump Truck Get Built From Scratch – This Rules!

For one reason or another we were feeling kind of down the other day and when that happens we go searching for fun stuff to watch to cheer us up. We also go poking around eBay. That’s where we...

The Grand Old Man Of Bonneville: This Video and Interview With Norm Thatcher Is Amazing!

The world was a different place back in the 1960s. For starters, the definition of “old” was far different than it  is today in 2020. Hell, we have guys who are 90 years old running top...

Monster Truck Mid-Air Collision: This Is One Of The Wildest Things We Have Ever Seen! 10 Tons Of Wreckage

There’s always something awesome about seeing a “first”, right? We don’t me a global “first ever” we mean a, “Oh damn, never seen that before!” moment....

Engine Video: Watch These 10 Awesome Radial Engines And All Of Their Glorious Specs

Radial engines may have had their day in the sun before turbines came into the picture and kind of took over the world of aviation but we still love them. Even the small ones are pretty big and boy...

New Junkyard Inventory! This 1954 Studebaker Pickup Truck Is A 1/2 ton, Short Bed, Factory V-8 Automatic & Trick Vent Shades!

Dude… this thing is awesome! I’m a sucker for Studebaker trucks as some of you well know, and this one that has just hit the yard at Nobody Else’s Auto is great! This thing is in...

Will It RUN AND DRIVE 1,600+ Miles Home? Dodge Polara Parked 32 Years! Vice Grip Bought It SIGHT UNSEEN!

Derek Bieri is getting braver and braver with his will it run car purchases. It used to be that you’d look at half of them and think there is no way, and the other half that it would totally...

Small Tire Gangstas Racing for $18,000 at the ROWDIEST TRACK in the USA! And The Video Is Right Here!

If you live near or race at Yello Belly Drag Strip then you know the charms, the rough edges, and the reputation have been well earned. Often referred to as “The Gut” by locals, it is one...

Which Ratchet Head Type Is Best? If You Can Only Have One In Your Car’s Tool Kit, Which One Should You Choose

If you are like me then you have several styles of ratchets in your toolbox. And if you are like me then you have a couple of them that you almost never use, or that when you do use them you find...

Glorious Failure: This 1971 Film From A Drag Race Held Inside Three Rivers Stadium In Pittsburgh Is Awesome!

It seemed like a brilliant concept. If drag racing fans were willing to trek into the hinterlands to see their favorite cars and drivers race, putting on a race right in the lap should absolutely...

Video Of Steve McQueen Pulling Wheelies And Flying Around On A Honda CR250M Elsinore Rules

Largely regarded as the coolest guy who has ever lived, Steve McQueen’s aura was made by footage like that which you will see below. For starters, we’re taking the coolest guy ever and...

Classic Horsepower Video: This Early 1970s Classic Film From Allis-Chalmers Features Tractor Pulling and Focuses On Power!

This right here is some vintage tractor greatness! The film is called, “More Power On The Ground” and it was made by Allis Chalmers right around 1970 judging by the surroundings and...

This Look At The Coolest Ferrari Movie and TV Cars Of All Time Is Great – 1980s Greatness and More

When we think of iconic TV and movie cars, there’s a short list that people default to. KITT, The General Lee, Herbie, and on and on we go. But what of Ferrari? Just when you think it’s a...

Buy The Book: The Race To The Future by Kassia St. Clair – Story of the First Peking to Paris In 1907

In my own life as a gearhead, I have had a perspective change on my historical interests over time. For example, for many years I really never had even the most passing interest in early automotive...

History Video: The Changing Architecture Of The Automobile Is A Neat Film About Styling History Made In The 1970s

History is a really neat thing to look at, especially when it comes to cars, right? We get to see the evolution of not only the mechanical end of the machines, we get to see the styling involved as...