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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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This 1985 Chevy C30 Hauler Has A Four-Speed, A Big Block, And Cheesy 1980s Graphics – In Other Words, Perfection

Hey, I dig the Roadkill hauler as much as the next guy but it does not have these sweet graphics or a four speed, so this one is better, right? The truck is insanely clean and would be the perfect...

Watch This Awesome Dodge Power Wagon Mega-Truck Successfully Complete A Back Flip – Awesome Clip

A few days ago we showed you what happened when a huge truck tried to perform a backflip and instead the entire front suspension fell out of the truck in violent and spectacular fashion. Today we...

Ride Along With Jerry Hoffmann On A 202mph Pass! He Earns A Spot In The ECTA 200mph Club On This Run

I have become seriously enamored with the world of land speed racing over the last few years and the reasons are many. The racers I have interacted have been amazing people, the cars and motorcycles...

Tiny Town, Huge Car Show – Photos From St Paul, Nebraska Where Hot Rodders Invaded The Town With Awesome Iron

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – The tiny town of St. Paul, Nebraska  hosts a yearly car show that brings out hundreds of cars from all around the great plains. Part of the Grover...

SCCA To Invite Muscle Cars To Compete At Tire Rack Pro Solo Finale – Classic American Muscle Class On The National Stage

We got an email from Dave Dusterberg who is an SCCA Regional Executive working in the Indiana region and a guy who was one of the driving forces in the creation of the SCCA Classic American Muscle...

This Awesome Video Gives A Great Look At The History Of The Unimog From The 1940s Until Today – Unstoppable From Beginning To End

It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that the Unimog can be considered the most versatile four wheel drive truck in the world. There are a couple available versions of the truck. One of them...

Ebay Find: A Real-Life Car From Grand Theft Auto Can Be Yours!

I’ll happily admit that ever since playing Grand Theft Auto III in the early 2000’s that I’m addicted to the game series. Don’t go judging me based upon that. Ever...

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Rough Start: Finding A Sea-Green Grand Prix In The Middle Of Iowa

Welcome to Ames, located dead-set in the middle of Iowa. If there’s anything there besides cornfields, I’ve yet to learn about it. And located in the middle of Ames is this gem of a 1977...

Rare Crash-Test Footage Of The Vector W8 Unearthed-And It Did Surprisingly Well!

The Vector W8 is a strange beast. Part Lamborghini insanity, part aviation engineering, part NASCAR, the W8 looked and sounded like something a fourteen-year-old kid would have dreamed up in his math...

Are You Putting Your Teenager Into A Rolling Deathtrap? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Thinks So.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety published a story in the New York Times on July 16, 2014 titled “Teenagers’ Cars Are Older, Smaller, and Less Safe”, where the IIHS had performed a...

You Think Your Day Sucks? Your Jeep Could Be On Fire And Running Away From You.

Everyone has that one day that they wish they could ultimately forget. You know exactly what we mean: you woke up late, pissed off the boss, shredded the documents you actually needed, spilled hot...

Ford Releases Power Figures For 2015 Mustang Lineup: Who Wants a 310 HP Four Cylinder?

Ford has (FINALLY!) released the power figures for the 2015 Mustang lineup. Here’s the numbers: The 2.3L turbo four EcoBoost motor is 310hp/320 ft/lb torque. (Or, for comparison, the same...

Check Out This Sick Twin Turbo LS Powered 1964 GMC Pickup That Has The Sauce To Backup The Looks

When our buddy Kaleb Kelley, the man behind the hugely successful ClassicsDaily Instagram page, told us about Trevor Howard at FilteredImagePhotography, and mentioned a shoot he had done on a 1964...

Photo Coverage From The 27th, And Final Show Me F100’s Ozark Run in Branson, MO

(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) There are many cool niches of people in the classic car culture. They’re generally centered on a certain make, model, or style that a group of people like. This...