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Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: The Biggest and Baddest Truck Show In The Country!

Here’s our last gallery from LST 2026! Man  what a great show this is. I hope all of you at home put it on your list for 2027! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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Nitro Funny Car Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing Goodness!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Highlight Video: Sportsman Drag Racing Action from the 2026 AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Here we go! NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing is some of the finest on the planet. Sportsman Drag Racing is the lifeblood of drag racing, drag strips, and the hobby in general, so when NHRA announced that...

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OG Mini Truck Customizing: Jendro’s Chop Shop Putting Maxima Headlights in this Clean Nissan 720!!

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a ton of custom truck mods involving head lights and tail lights. A couple of the more well known were using Nissan Maxima lights in Nissan 720 pickups and Ford...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Body Chop, Rock Sliders & Cage Plates As Fabrication Continues

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one...

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IHRA News: Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series

Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series; Partnership Kicks Off at St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix Fairfield, OH — March 11, 2026 — The International Hot Rod...

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Blog War: Big Block, Crew Cab Chevrolet Goodness – A Fitting Parting Shot

Lohnes actually thought he was gonna send me down for the count with that Dodge he posted. While he did pretty well locating a dually Dodge from the 1970s, the fact is that that color green should...

You’re Doing It Wrong: News Reporter Gets On-Air Lesson On The Proper Use Of An Ice Scraper

Ever find yourself in a situation where you simply don’t know what’s going on, have no idea what to do and are expected to act? At some point in time you might have heard the phrase...

Craigslist Find: A Top Fuel Dragster Claimed To Be Shirley Muldowney’s 1991 Car

We’re taking this one with a grain of salt here, but whether or not the dragster belonged to Shirley Muldowney, this is an impressive find. What you have is a 300″ wheelbase chrome-moly...

More Great 2015 Grand National Roadster Show Photos

We’ll be running around the Grand National Roadster Show all weekend snapping photos, which means we’ll have tons of photo galleries going up over the next several days. If you have...

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This 1930 Ford Model A Rural Mail Car Is For Sale, Has Amazing History, And Even Video Of It in Action

Chances are you have seen this car on the internet before. It was “discovered” a few years ago in Montana and the guy selling it has done an incredible job accumulating the entire history...

Hot Rods, Hot Rods, Hot Rods: Our 2015 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage Continues

The 2015 Grand National Roadster Show is, as usual, one hell of a show. I’ve been going since I was a little kit, when it was in Oakland. On our way to the show on Friday I was asking him about...

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2015 Grand National Roadster Show: More Wide Open Photo Coverage From The Huge Show

Normally when we go to cover a car show, we shoot photos of the stuff that we think is cool or that catches our eye. In the case of the 2015 Grand National Roadster Show that was every flipping car....

Unhinged: How Many More Automated Systems Must Be Added Before NHTSA Figures Out The Problem Is The Idiot Behind The Wheel?

I’m gonna start with a press release from NHTSA: Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to add two cutting-edge...

Somebody Built A RWD, Drifting Toyota Prius – Here It Is In Action

It actually happened. An enterprising individual converted a Toyota Prius to rear-wheel-drive and got the thing to go sideways, do donuts, and fry the rear tires. And surprisingly, they did it...

BangShift Project Files: Making a 1962 Falcon Into A Hard-Charger On A $5,000 Budget

It takes effort to look at a rough car and convince yourself that you can make the diamond in the rough shine through, but usually most project cars don’t start with having to move a skull out...

More Takata Woes: Executive Indicted By Department Of Justice For Seatbelt Price-Fixing

Takata doesn’t need any more bad press…after a disastrous airbag recall that pretty much affected most major automotive manufacturers, it’s a miracle that the company hasn’t...

Forget Caption This, Someone Explain This Impala/Sierra Trar To Us, Please!

I don’t even know where to start with this thing. Someone in Illinois (and I’ll assume southern Illinois until proven differently) combined a rough-but-complete Chevrolet Impala body with...

The Best Argument For Public Rail: Crosswind Landings At Birmingham Airport In The U.K.

Flying an aircraft is a forced-immersion experience: if you aren’t fully aware, focused, and functioning, you and the machine will become one in a crumpled ball somewhere, with or without fire...

Behind-The-Scenes Footage From Ford Performance’s “50 Years Of Fun” – Extra Footage And Background On The Cars!

We recently showed you Ford Performance’s short film “50 Years Of Fun”, where Ford got Vaughn Gitten, Jr., Ryan Tureck, and Chris Forsberg to take a collection of Mustangs to the...