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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Sunday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

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Patina Paint Tech: The Famed FREIBURGER COMET WASH, Plus Testing Other Cleaners With Before And After Tests!

I remember the first time Freiburger said we needed to Comet wash a car. We hadn’t started CarJunkieTV yet, but it wasn’t long beforehand. During the next two years I’d Comet wash...

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Christmas With Vice Grip Garage! – Derek and Jessica Open Gifts From Fans On This Holiday Special!

I know that a lot of YouTubers get gifts and stuff from fans and viewers all the time, and many of them do videos where they are opening mail and packages from them. But when it’s Christmas...

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OLD SCHOOL Dodge 1 TON TOW TRUCK Gets Repairs and Paint Work! A Vice Grip Garage Roadworthy Rescue Christmas Bonus Episode Not To Be Missed.

In honor of the Christmas holiday, Derek has been putting out a few extra Vice Grip Garage videos the past week and we dig them. Some of them are a bit of Behind the Scenes coverage, some combine a...

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Swapping SRT4 TURBO POWER Into A MINT 1985 Dodge Minivan!! Building an EPIC Family Hauler With A Crusty SRT4.

This one here is something special. Sure, there have been plenty of turbo 4 cylinder Dodge Caravans and Plymouth Voyagers over the years, but this van is so mint that it defies description. Just wait...

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This 1969 Ford Country Sedan Is A 429 Powered, Detroit Locker Equipped, BangShifty Hunk Of Wagon Perfection

When I first found this wagon on eBay I needed to leave the room for a couple of minutes because the blood started to rushing away from my brain and into…errr…other areas. When I think of...

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Project Raven: Selling Mouse Fur and When In Doubt, Get A Bigger Hammer

We’ve been hammering away at Project Raven, quite literally. The 400ci big block we picked up for $400 looked like hell when we opened it up, and we honestly had our doubts about whether or not...

This Video Profile Of Legendary Automotive Designer And Artist Steve Stanford Is Well Worth The Watch

If you have opened a car magazine that deals with hot rods, muscle cars, or kustoms over the last couple of decades, it is a virtual guarantee that your eyes have feasted on the work of Steve...

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Bonus Photos From The Prolong Twilight Cruise At The NHRA Museum

I still can’t get over how nice the weather is here in Southern California. I’ve lived here 9 years and it seems like just when you start to take it for granted another really awesome day...

The Final Of The McLeod Stick Shift Shootout Was A Gear Jamming, Clutch Dumping Affair In Norwalk

While the automatic transmission has certainly taken the volume lead in the sport of drag racing, there’s a bunch of guys left who are stuck doing it the hard way and we love them all. As if...

This 1962 GMC Truck Has 1,780 Original Miles – 100% Non-Restored Survivor – Incredible!

Unless General Motors grabbed a pickup truck off its assembly line in 1962 and put it in a hermetically sealed box for the last 53 years, you are looking at the finest example of the breed left on...

Drag Strip Action From The Mega Mopar Action Show At Maple Grove Raceway – Hemis, Wedges, More

(PHOTOS BY JOE GRIPPO) – Yesterday we took you to the rolling green pits of Maple Grove Raceway to show you some of the cool Mopars that were in the show portion of the Mega Mopar Action...

Lutz Race Cars Open House: More Cars, More Horsepower, More Drag Week Rides, And One Freak On The Rollers

(PHOTOS BY MIKE BROOKS) – Mike Brooks won’t stop talking about how much fun he had at the Lutz Race Cars open house he attended last weekend but that’s a good thing because the...

Watch Jay Leno Cruise A 1,000 HP 1941 Willys And Meet The Cool And Surprising Owner

There’s something about a flat hooded, pro street Willys that will be cool until the end of time and maybe a couple hundred years after that. This particular car is even more interesting and...

Wild Drag Action: King Of The Streets Chi-Town At Great Lakes Dragaway!

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Every year I look forward to the Chi Town King of the Streets event. A historic track, stupid fast cars, big cash money, and the excitement that only an...

NHRA New England Nationals 2015: A Photo Diary From The Region’s Biggest Drag Race

(Photos by Rich Pasley) – For the third year in a row the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing series invaded New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire and held the New England Nationals. This...

Nut Driver: The Long Journey Home (Part 1)

[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s daily driver 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo] If you want to catch up on the other installments, click HERE As it’s been FOUR FREAKING MONTHS...

This 1994 Dakota Has A Hemi Surprise Under The Hood But Not In The Way You Expect

When BangShifter Will Sanders sent us the link to this truck, he was all on board with the program aside from the hood. We’re kind of with him although in light of all the other coolness...

Lutz Race Cars Open House Coverage: Drag Week Heroes, Freaks, Racers, And Dyno Pull Madness

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – When Lutz Race Cars announced that they were putting together an open house and dyno day at their shop, we knew there was no way we could pass it up. We...