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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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Craigslist Find: Super-cool, one-year-only 1969 Pontiac Custom S

There will doubtlessly be debate about whether a 1969 Pontiac A-body in brown is worth $18k, but set that aside for a moment and consider this car: The Custom S replaced the 1968 Pontiac Tempest...

Pinkees Rod Shop Open House Photos. This Is Just The Start Of A Weekend Of Coolness In Colorado.

I’m in Loveland Colorado this weekend to announce the autocross at the Goodguys Show. While I was here I figured I’d get some other cool stuff in, and last night we had an open house and...

FRIDAY BOOM: Watch a Wild Compilation of Huge Crashes From the 2011 ADRL Season

While the ADRL may be dead and buried in an unmarked tomb at the bottom of the sea, it is important to remember the legacy that it left wit respect to Pro Mods. The organization certainly kicked the...

Watch a Chevy Wagon Pull A Massive Wheelie At George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip

George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip is a destination spot for any hot rodder. It is literally the place where time stood still, where the term “insurance company” would garner you...

Watch a Violent European Tractor Pulling Wreck – The Sled is an Effective Battering Ram!

As we have showed many times in the past, stuff can go wrong in a hurry on the pulling course, especially when the machines are on the upper end of the power scale and the sled is weighed down like a...

2015 Corvette Z06 To Have 650hp, Most Powerful Car Ever Offered by General Motors – Stupid Fastness On The Way

Last night General Motors finally announced the horsepower number for the 2015 Corvette Z06 and it is a big one. The car will be rated at 650hp and perhaps more impressively, 650 lb-ft of torque....

The Parting Shift: Ride Along In Kenworth As The Driver Shifts Three Sticks Like A Ninja

For anyone out there who doesn’t believe that truck driving is an acquired skill, watch this video and have your opinion changed. This video shows the driver of a Kenworth W900L driving and...

More Sweet Cars From The Recent Pomona Swap Meet – Drivers, Draggers, and Resto Projects

Here’s another load of sweet cars from the May 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. The machines range from cars you could have driven out of the place to your home to the basic bones of a project that would...

Why The Hell Does This Car Exist? The Most Modified Prius Ever Is Still A Flipping Prius

(Words: Bryan McTaggart) – The Toyota Prius is the gearhead’s anthesis. It’s an over-rated doorstop of a car best suited to people who are just biding their time until Google’s wheeled...

How to do stunts like Mad Max 2 – Step 1: Be prepared to hurt yourself

I’ve been influenced by a lot of movies over the years, but every single frame of Mad Max 2 — or The Road Warrior, as it was billed in the United States — is burned indelibly in my...

Watch a Monte Carlo Drag Car Pull All Four Wheels Off the Ground and Still Win a Drag Race!

There are a couple things that make this simple video great. The first is the absolutely massive wheel stand that the Monte Carlo drag car goes into on the newly resurfaced strip at Cecil County...

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside: More Killer Trucks From The Pomona Swap Meet

You knew this was coming, right? After you all goaded me into showing you some cars from the Pomona swap meet you knew I wouldn’t be able to just sit on my hands while I still had some sweet,...

Jeff Howe’s Laid Out 1965 Chevelle Got Him Through School, Got Him The Girl, And Now Just Kicks Ass

Jeff Howe’s 1965 Chevelle represents the perfect hot rodder story. Dad is into Corvairs, Jeff helps work on them from the time he’s 7, and the rest is history. In 1995 Jeff buys the...

Ridetech Is Calling You Out! Bring Your Weird Ass Car To Indy This Weekend For The Goodguys Show And Win Stuff!

The guys at Ridetech are challenging all the Midwestern hot rodders out there. They are using Jim McKamey’s All Wheel Drive, Twin 500 inch Caddy Powered Yugo as bate, to see if you’ll...