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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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Watch A Boeing 757’s Jet Blast Catch And Fold Up This Hatchback’s Rear Gate Like It’s Made Of Paper

Skiathos Island National Airport in Greece is very similar to Princess Juliana International Airport on the island of Saint Martin: the approach to the runway is butted up to a coastal road and a...

This Incredibly Rare 1937 Checker Y8 Was Made Into A Wrecker In The 1940s And Has Been Restored To Its Glory

When we think of the Checker car company, lots of times we default to thoughts of the square, tank-like machines that populated New York City streets and the streets of many other cities for decades...

Someone Mated The Front Of A 1939 Studebaker To A 1961 Chevy Bus And Now They Want You To Buy It

There’s good weird, there’s bad weird, and then there’s just plain old weird. This 1961 Chevy bus with a 1939 Studebaker nose pretty much fits all three categories in one way or...

Motor Trend’s Carlos Lago Skips His Usual New Car Review And Gets To Test Out…Roadkill’s AMC Gremlin

OUCH, oh, how the mighty have fallen. The last time we saw Motor Trend’s Carlos Lago he was pimping out a Mercedes-Maybach, dressed to the nines, eating Del Taco in pure luxury while hauling...

Viva Las Vegas 2015: Flowing Forms From The 40s and 50s (With some 1930s Stuff Thrown In For Good Measure)

By now you have figured out that we’re on a mission to show you every possible car and truck from the massive Viva Las Vegas 2015 hot rod show that went down in the famed adult playground last...

Kemah Cruise Coverage: Cool Cars, Big Trucks, And Some Interesting Iron In Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Last week we showed you some of Charles Wickam’s photos from the Kemah Cruise in Kemah, Texas. Today we’re bringing you the last blast of the photos...

Scary Carnage Video: Mike Brown – Heath Littrell Wreck From The Outlaw Street Car Reunion In Memphis

The recently held “Outlaw Stree Car Reunion” in Memphis, Tennessee was a huge success. The race drew a ton of spectators, it drew hundreds of race cars, and it saw amazing performances...

Drag Action Photos: 4th Annual Nitto Tire NMCA West Muscle Car Nationals Coverage Continues

Racers in California and other warm weather climates are often envied by guys like me who are still waiting for their local strip to open after the glaciers have pulled back. Sure there are issues...

TX2K15 Fun: A Soggy Night Meet With Some Of The Nastiest Street Cars In America

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Saturday at TX2K15 was a wet one. So what do you do when you’re hundreds of miles from home covering a race and it gets canceled? You find cars! By the...

EVENT GALLERY: Round Two From The 2015 Northwest Rodarama In Puyallup, Washington

(Photos: David Matyjasik) Our coverage of the Northwest Rodarama continues, with more of the gems that were on-hand at the Washington State Fair Event Complex in Puyallup, Washington. With plenty of...

Burnout Monday: The “Mad Matt” Chrysler 300 SRT-8, Complete With Emissions-Legal 6-71 Supercharged 6.1L Hemi

In the matter of the last two weeks, this car has been sent to me as a suggestion nineteen times. Pictures from the 2015 Spring Festival from various angles showed the same thing: a murdered-out 2006...

Awesome Video: This Go Pro Footage Shot During The Making Of Fast And Furious 7 Shows The Insanity Of The Car Stunts

Love them or hate them the Fast and Furious series of movies are based around wild cars and have produced some of the highest grossing films of all time. We would run down the list of the other movie...

Our Photo Landslide From Viva Las Vegas 2015 Continues: Traditional Hot Rods, Kustoms, Coupes, Buckets, More

The trucks got their due a little earlier today and now it is time for the cars to get theirs. This latest group of photos from the 2015 Viva Las Vegas show feature multiple build styles and body...

Truckin’ In The Desert: More Unique, Cool, Well Used, and Interesting Trucks From Viva Las Vegas 2015

As we have been doing all through the weekend, we’re bringing you cool photos from the huge and fun Viva Las Vegas 2015 show. This is another collection of classic, hot rodded, patina ridden,...