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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Huge Tractor Auction This Weekend In Oregon – One Of America’s Biggest Collections Of John Deere Machines

It is a good thing that I’m contractually obligated to announce the NHRA event in Topeka, Kansas this weekend because if I wasn’t, I’d be on a plane to Oregon to take in and...

Rupert, Maroney and Waddle Win At IHRA’s Return To The Rock

(Photos and words by IHRA)  – The new and improved International Hot Rod Association, after a Florida rainout came back to setting world records, stunning upset winners and a showdown for the...

Those pictures of massive stockpiles of cars on the internet today are from 2009

Suddenly, it’s on the rise again: a photo of a massive lot of automobiles, accompanied by text that reads something like “Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not...

Some Douchebag Stole A Landspeed Racing Motorcycle From El Mirage. Help Us Find It!

I got an email last night from Jill Iversen, who works as a starter for the SCTA at El Mirage and also races her own 1941 Indian motorcycle, telling me that their other race bike was stolen from El...

The Dodge Challenger Hellcat Is Coming And You Can’t Stop It – 600+ Horsepower!

(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – After years of speculations, false starts and rumor mills, the Dodge Challenger SRT “Hellcat” has been officially announced. While Dodge hasn’t...

A BangShifty Look Inside Hendrick Motorsports – Race Cars, Parts, Wrecks, Trophies, And More!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – When Joe Grippo and his bride made their trip south of hang out at the 50th Anniversary of the Mustang at Charlotte Motor Speedway they also made a dedicated effort to...

This 1977 F-250 Is Actually A Heavy Duty 2008 Ram In Disguise – Cool Old Ford Looks, Big Modern Cummins Power

There are certain things we stumble upon while trolling eBay and other online marketplaces for trucks, tractors, cars, and parts which literally lap off the page and scream, “SHOW ME OFF ON...

Hotchkis Sport Suspension East To Hold Power Tour Kick Off Open House And Barbeque! Win Stuff, See Cool Cars, Eat BBQ!

Friday June 6th is just around the corner and that means that the Power Tour is right there as well. Does anyone else feel like May was about three days long? Actually we know that some of you who...

NMCA West Street Car Nationals: More Fresh Photos From The Packed Pits In Pomona – Here’s The Fast Stuff

For the last couple days we have been touring the pits at the NMCA West Street Car Nationals in Pomona with you. Each time we have been highlighting a slightly different section of the the cars that...

Video: Jeff Lutz Testing “The Evil Twin” 1957 Chevy In Oklahoma – This Is One Bad Fast Hombre

Jeff Lutz did the seemingly impossible over the off season. He secretly built what (on the surface) looked to be a replica of his beloved and previously raced on Drag Week 1957 Chevy. In fact, he...

Watch Kurt Busch Suffer A Major Crash At Indy 500 Practice – He Walked Away

Kurt Busch is having a busy month of May. He’s been racing in the NASCAR series and testing heavily at Indy because this year he is going to run both the Indy 500 and the Coca Cola 600 next...

Watch Racer Jeff Paulin Pull A Bumper Dragging Wheelie At the NMCA West Street Car Nationals!

The term “bumper dragging wheelie” gets overused across the automotive enthusiast media. When it actually happens, seeing a car drag the rear bumper on pavement for any amount of time is...

NMCA West Street Car Nationals: More Photos From The Pits Cool Cars Galore!

Yesterday we dropped our first gallery from the pits at the NMCA West Street Car Nationals all up on your business so you could get a sense of the cool stuff that was hammering the famous strip in...

Ride Along With Jim Pace As He Thunders Around Sebring In A V8 Powered Daytona Prototype – The Sound Is FANTASTIC

Of all the road racing iron out there in the world today, the cars that compete in the Daytona Prototype class of the Tudor Road Racing Series are among our favorites. They look cool, they...